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Eric's Gear

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Adam Theis

Joe Cohen

Eric Garland

Michael Emenau

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What Eric Uses:
Ludwig drums
Noble and Cooley snare
Zildjian cymbals
Korg Kaoss efx pad
Boomerang repeater pedal
Behringer Eurorack 12 channel mixer
2 Shure SM57 mic's
Shure Beta52 kick drum mic
Audix D4 mic

What he does with it:

The way I mix my electronics with my acoustic drums is reletively simple. I start by taking a mic in the bass drum and a mic on the snare and using an XLR adaptor cable that takes two XLR mic cables and funnels them into one XLR cable and that (with a 1/4 adapter) goes into the Boomerang input and the output goes into a channel on my mixer. This way I get a complete snare and bass drum loop when I use the boomerang to make a drum loop. With the boomerang I can create loops and half time them or double time them, play them backwards and also stack overdubs infinitely (at least in theory)

I also hook up another snare drum mic in it's own channel so that I can use it solely with the Kaoss pad efx unit if I want. I use the Kaoss pad mostly for the BPM delay channel on my snare, as well as sometimes with the boomerang repeater. I also use the Kaoss for it's sampling channels and some of the preset sounds in it.
And lastly I have the Beta52 bass drum mic just to reinforce my bass drum sound when I'm situations when I'm not mic'd up. Dats it.