Wood hoops don't decrease the amount of sound a drum makes. They change the frequencies and arguably add sustain. Though the type of wood and hoop would make a difference. Compared to say a die-cast rim, wood rims would make a substantial difference in the sound. Of course, it just depends what kind...

That Cajon vid is rad! Great player! (on all of them)

OT: whatever happened to the spacemuffins drums? I remember those ads in MD in the late 90s. something about air pressurized tuning? #toolazytogoogle. I thought that Spacemuffins were simply electronic drum triggers in an acoustic shell? That is correct. What I meant earlier, was it seems like the ...

Which study do you base this fact on? I'm curious. Study? Like a clinical study? Bizarre... How about the "study" of reality? The FACT that the best players in the world, the monsters, are extremely articulate in interviews, clinics, videos, educational material, books and so forth at exp...

it's interesting how the most awesome players are horrible at explaining things. Referring to Thomas? I'd have to disagree. The "most awesome" players are extremely good at explaining things, most likely stemming from the fact they have a very deep understanding of what they are doing. Th...

That system seems like it would work - but - it also seems like it would be very fragile, how does it handle the drums being moved? Cased, transported, etc... and is expensive. but it almost seems like there'd be a better way to accomplish this. I'm no engineer though. There is. Arbiter perfected it...

Is it 2 different dvd's, or the same guy shot from different places/two camera's?

I caught that on his site a few days ago, it's a cool thing. Though it kinda makes me dizzy. Very cool idea though, particularly for a huge show or such.

Ooooh me too! I have only compiled various clips from that dvd. I hear it is 2 hours long?

Woa. That is awesome. I would buy some of the larger roto-toms if they sold em still (do they?)