Pro Drummers - where do you have your crash and ride set up?

**Rome11** · Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 38

I'm trying to get a feel for my set and I can't decide where I like having my ride and crash cymbals.

I know it's a very personal thing, but in terms of RB how do prefer it? Do you like the specific cymbals to coincide with the colored positioning on the RB charts, or do you just have them where you like it?

Right now I have the "green" crash on the left (even though it's charted in RB on the far right). I feel like some songs it's easier if it's on the left, but others it's easier on the right. My ride is on the right, near the "blue" pad (mid tom).

How do you have yours set up? Do a lot of you have a crash on the right and the left?

(I'm right handed, btw.)

**MehPlusRawr** · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 1389

Crash on the left, ride on the right.

edit: Oops. I fail.
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**EinsteinSL** · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 584

I have my crash on the right because it's an easier transition going from a roll across the toms to the crash.
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**MehPlusRawr** · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 1389

With your crash on the right, isn't it a rather awkward crossover for hitting ride patterns? It seems like your arm would get in the way of at least the yellow tom, making it harder for patterns like that Radar Love jazzy bit.
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**EinsteinSL** · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 584

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**EinsteinSL** · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 584

Yeah those are just pad silencers, I just switched the colors because the yellow was wearing out. It's still the regular RYBG setup.
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**MehPlusRawr** · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 1389

No, that's the actual drumset I have. I'm playing using the MIDI box.
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**Nubnut** · Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 2078 Location: Denver, CO

Aye three inches at a minimum. I personally have my real set at 6 inch difference, but with an e-set on rock band, you don't need to worry about accenting notes so 3 inches will be fine.
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**machetemonkey** · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 3043 Location: Minneapolis, MN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2ryNjTP00

My setup is pretty standard. Hihat right above the snare (so I can do disco beats well), ride above the blue tom and crash right below it and to the right a bit.

**S4VN01** · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 717 Location: Almont, MI

I chose to set mine up (when I had it set up) just like my real kit. Yellow cymbal to the left of the snare and slightly above it (where a usual hi-hat would be), crash located on the right side of the kit Above the blue and green toms, and the ride all the way to the right, over just the green tom.
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