Hi my name's Richard Jupp I'm here today at Blueprint studios in Manchester
Hi I'm Mike Joyce and I play drums I'm down here Blueprint today with Roland
I think it's important to really get stuck in experimenting with the hybrid technology
it gives you so much more to work with, to play with, more sounds, more Sonics, more frequencies
so it has opened up a world of opportunities for me
I just like the aesthetics of the acoustic kit and I like the feel of it and like the look of it
and that was one of the reasons why I wasn't interested really in about getting a full electronic kit
and I saw the TM-2 and I thought that's absolutely perfect
Still retaining the acoustic kit and the look of the acoustic kit
but you've got the electronic coming into it as well
that's perfect the marriage between the two is absolutely perfect for me
so currently I'm using my SPD-SX to layer my sounds
I'm still pretty new to this but so far it's been really good experimenting with layering organic
sounds from a kit into the SPD-SX and vice versa
and just playing around with different sounds, looping, sampling
it's interesting to play with those sounds and having another hybrid stuff and the SPD-SX
gives you the versatility to play with sounds that you've had on the record
and to try and replicate them live mixing it in with with the organic sound of the kick
at the moment I've got the Roland TM-2 and I've got a kick trigger and a snare trigger
and I'm using the internal sounds which are brilliant by the way
and I'm also using some of the enhance sounds sometimes I just want a slightly different snare
or slightly different kick depending on the track that I'm playing
so at the minute I'm just using these triggers to add a bit of weight to my live sound
on the kick I'm playing with either 808 or 909 kick
either or on the snare and they're sort of a handclap on the rim
so for me keeping it quite simple at the moment
it kind of enables me to be sort of gig ready as I'm writing
so I can literally take this sound and play it live
without using different snares, heads, changing this and that or the other
whether it's a small gig, big gig
I've got the confidence to know that it's going to sound bang on straightaway
I found also in rehearsals that not only is it inspiring me
it's also inspiring the guys that I'm working with
because when we're playing the sounds I am creating
they're changing the way that they're playing ever so slightly
to accommodate what they're hearing as well
so it's not just kick, snare, kick, snare
you're getting some really interesting effects using the TM-2
which in turn inspires them
it has opened up a lot more opportunities for me
I was really nervous about the complexity and sort of infinite possibilities of using the SPD-SX
it's as easy as you want to make it
with just having it on the kick and the snare it's already taught me
to be a little bit more experimental in my playing and reacting to loops and sounds
as I said it's not that complicated
if I can do it then I'm sure you can