CongaTick wrote:Despite my calluses I always tape in the winter in the dry cold air to avoid nasty splits. The technique comment is right. One slap practice I've used: work on slaps with your hand starting no more than a couple of inches above the head, even reducing that distance as you start producing crisper notes. The other thing I have done to avoid the sound-tech issue when gigging is purchase of a small 4 channel mixer for my mics, giving the sound tech or the power amp only one premixed input. If you can spring for some clip-on mics and a mixer it will go far to bring you level up while simultaneously saving your hands.
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