My name is Will Hunt, I'm the drummer for Evanescence.
We're here in Reno, Nevada at the Sierra Resort, full e-kit, pretty awesome!
On this tour what's really unique about this entire thing, the album and the tour is that,
we've got a different 28 to 30 piece Orchestra each night we play.
This is something that Amy's wanted to do for a long time and the reason that it's called
"Synthesis" is because it's a melding of the orchestral thing, as well as this whole other electronic element.
Each song has a different palette of sounds, a different set of sounds,
so the real difficulty was in, from song to song, learning where certain sounds were
because I only have so many inputs.
I only have so many outputs.
The patches that I'm using for the song 'Imperfection', that's the first single off the album, are pretty cool.
So here's what the kick is right now...
in that song, here's what the snare sound is right now in that song.
So we've got what you would maybe call a crash...
and then I've got stuff that I'm playing in the verse.
So I go from a KT-10 pedal over here where I'm playing that kick sample
and the I've got this on the ride...
and then this snare.
And then I've got another couple things going on. What we basically call one hits,
so it's you hit it one time and it it's something that keeps repeating so for
example I've got this is in the verse....
This one it's in the chorus...
I've been in the electronic world since about 2001.
Why we really, really wanted to get our hands on one of these [TD-50]
was that I'm able to fly samples into this brain [TD-50 sound module].
where this is the first Roland brain [TD-50 sound module] that you're able to do that.
it makes it way more user-friendly, you know I don't have a stack of computers up
here that I'm dealing with and stuff like that.
This is also first brain [TD-50 sound module] that you can layer samples.
and so what I'm able to do is go in here and pull up
some cool different acoustic kick sounds and layer them underneath those
electronic sounds so that for all intents and purposes you're still hearing that
electronic sample but you're feeling the punch and the attack of you know what a
real drum can do.
One of the main reasons that I love the Roland stuff is because of the durability.
That thing's a tank!
And you know that went in and out of trailers
and you know 120 degree weather to 10 degree weather.
...and knock on wood I'm not really
worried about this thing breaking down on me because I know everything else
that I've had from the TD-6 to the thirty [TD-30], you name it, it's always been great.
As a painter, you know, what do you want? You want the basic color, you want black? White?
Or do you want the whole spectrum, and if you want the whole spectrum
which I do then this is this is how you get it.