Cheaters at double bass

I'm not sure where I stand on triggers being cheating for sure but I'd say that you can't really compare them to guitar pedals...unless you're using triggers strictly for reproduced sound of a drum you don't have. Otherwise, triggers used to falsely speed up or double... oh s*#t, I just remerabered pedals make echo's and vibrato's and "slap back" and stuff... nevermind.

Double Bass Rules!
 
Although it's an old thread I'm bored!

I personally don't find drum machines cheating at all but they are almost always used for a clear asthetic purpose and usually within music that already has elements of Electronica. You can hear it's a drum machine and no illusions have been made to suggest otherwise so that's no bother.

However when it comes to double bass pedals then i cannot stand triggers myself and much more admire a guy/gal who can work both pedals with gusto. If I'm listening to music and knowing it's a live drummer then if double bass is used I would like to think that they are working both bass drums and not just one. I have seen some videos of Nile's drummer working the triggers and it is impressive but I much prefer the traditional method.
 
Its not cheating in any way. What you save in the amount of work your legs do you have to make up for in the precision of your timing. If your double bass rolls sound like crap with regular pedals they're gonna sound even worse with a ghost pedal.
 
Jackhammer...

Indeed, the faking it like it's a real drummer thing is bogus. I wasn't really thinking about electronica... it's almost implied in that realm huh?
Now the "heel toe method" is something I can't stress enough... Have you seen this? Blew me away! Half the work and/or double the results...outstanding.
 
Too bad this thread is so old ..



I wanna know what Nick Barker did in Dimmu!

I guess I think triggers are a bit cheaty if you're just using it to do whatever it is you do a bit easier. If you use it to free up a foot so that you can add more to what you're doing, then I don't think it's cheating ..

Everything is relative. ;)
 
You can use loop pedals to make what you're playing sound far more complex than it really is. You can also use trill peddles to sound faster than you really are. Really, it is no different.
 
I think double bass is lame anyways, but since when is music a competition? They could put tin foil on their dicks and slam it against the bass drum and as long as it sounRAB good I'll groove it.
 
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