For all the viewers, he did this while under the weather! He cancelled the stream for that day and made a video as "compensation", that's dedication if I've ever seen it!

“It turns your depression into an activity!” has such coy delivery for such a macabre line and I love it

I have never and won't ever play the drums. But I'll know what cymbals to buy my drummer friends.

I like how this channel is called 'The Drum Thing' yet is mostly about cymbals

These cybals are like a good friend group of pensioners. Sure they might be in their eighties, worn by life, but when they come to hang out together they still somehow have a blast

Maybe it’s because I’m a guitarist, but these damaged cymbals still sound excellent. Who cares what an instrument looks like? It’s about sound❤

if anyone's wondering, an easy way to stop a crack from spreading on literally anything is to drill a big honkin hole centered right at the end of that crack, so the drill is taking half crack and half healthy material. That should give it enough relief to keep it in one piece until you get to removing the entire damaged bit.

This is amazing. Cymbals must be the only musical instrument that still has value and is perfectly playable even if it breaks. Drums are incredible, man.

If there’s anything I’ve learned from this channel it’s that cymbal sound really is largely determined by what it’s made of over shape. Quasimodo had a full amputation and he’s still killin it

In high school I had a Paiste beginner cymbal, which went completely dead when a crack appeared at the edge. We just grabbed a hacksaw and sawed it off flat. I didn't even know that was a thing people did, it just seemed to me that it would work, and it did!

This is the literal definition of "if it's broken, but it works, it's not broken"

As a semi-professional death metal drummer, my god, these videos are always extremely helpful, and I very much have confidence I will use everything I learn from your videos in my everyday drumming career. Sincerely, thank you. :3

I love hearing this "if it sounds good, it is good" attitude, because I have this bass effect where even though there's zero definition to the tone, rhythm or anything, it's still the coolest thing ever and I love it. And remembering sometimes that that's what's important is a big deal.

Broken or not, it sounds beautiful in Wade's drumset.

For how thrashed some of those cymbals are, they sound hella good! I was genuinely surprised at Quasimodo there.

You thoroughly inspired me. I found a nicely repaired 1977 18” 2002 and purchased it for less than $100. It sounds so great the repair adds some individuality for sure!

Wade playing vulfpeck is a crossover I wasn’t ready for

i also wanted to say i look forward to your new videos on the car channel. im an aspiring mechanic and its fun to watch the authentic aussie way to work on cars

Would be great to get a demonstration video on how to properly fix a cracked cymbal. How to round out the edges and everything.

your collection of weird cymbals is truly amazing. the super dry bonk, the egg, the steel cymbals, the printed ones, the road signs, now these broken ones.

being from memphis, i can’t help but feel special when you show clips from the drum shop in my city :)

Great choice of background music btw. It's a march called "Alte Kameraden". As a german guy with an interest in traditional march music, I can say that it's one of the best there is.

these videos keep confirming that any slab of bronze in roughly circle shape sounds great! maybe it's cuz I'm not a drummer, but all those cymbals sounded perfectly fine, good even

I'm glad to see you praise broken cymbals, the majority of cymbals on my kit are broken and restored, because why toss them out when you can just slice a piece off and keep going :)!

i honestly love the sound of damageed cymbals that have been repaired properly. so unique

This is like acoustic guitars. The holes and cracks add character! 😂

I wasn't really expecting DAGOTHWAVE in a video, but now I can die happy.

I tricked my boss into letting me work 2nd shift in the machine shop, so sometimes I do fun things with my dead cymbals. Wet grinders are great for getting those cracks out, and then you can hit it with a pencil grinder and finish it up on the buffing wheel or use a cratex buffing wheel on the pencil grinder for small holes. I've also experimented a little with rehammering and turning thicker cymbals down on the lathe.

this brought back memories... trying to save a marching band crash cymbal by drilling ahead of the crack. problem is that it's like cancer. you can't see the little tendrils reaching out into the good meat....shit kept cracking despite our surgical intervention 😢 thx chief!❤

i’ve only discovered this man in like November but I’ve watched just about all his videos across all his channels i wish when i get an actual job/bank account I would 100% invest in his patreon and drum streams. keep going man you’re awesome.

Drumming to Dagothwave is such a cromulent choice

About a year ago I dug out some cracked cymbals and "restored" them. A 16" Crash turned out to become a 10" Splash. And I started stacking and cutting all of them. And that's how I got to add at least 2 new cymbals to my kit. Plus my bandmates love the sound of them as well.

Symbols: “I’m a god. How can you kill a god? Shame on you sweet Dankevar.”

Thank you so much for playing some young scrolls, the like four seconds that you played just made me smile from ear to ear I’m not even kidding

They sound fantastic, especially the Paiste! I’m not a drummer, but I grew up in the ‘80s, and love the way Paiste cymbals sound.

I will always be in love with the sound of your toms, mate

I would love to see a video of you attempting to *correctly* fix some of these symbals! Would be much fun to learn about the process and such!

i love your ealy 2000´s aestetic

I'd never heard of drum streams before this, now i want to go watch your stream in the background while i draw. thanks youtube reccomendations!

i am fascinated by your stream set up, looks so fun!

Watching this video reminded me of when I attempted to play the drum set in high school. As a percussionist, I figured I’d be pretty good at it since I’m quite well versed in most of the other percussion instruments. I ended up discovering that I’m not very good at it, which was definitely a humbling moment for my slightly arrogant self! 😅 Whenever I see people on the internet play the drum set with such ease and skill, I’m always amazed at the level of dedication they have. I’m glad you’re having fun with this cool combination of instruments. You play very well! It’s super cool to see!

Dude I love your content and sense of humor. Everything you pop up on my recommended I click it and I don't know drums at all. But I know it's always gonna be a banger

Hey thanks for the content man, you wouldn't happen to know Peter Banks would you? He was my drum teacher and mentor for many years, based in Adelaide. He does gigs and stuff so figured you may have seen him about.

My dad still uses the marching cymbal he stole from his high school as a ride lol

Love hearing Vulfpeck in here. Thanks for the video!

I actually like the sound of damaged cymbals in a lot of cases. They fall off in really unique ways. Providing you stop the crack and properly cut the cracking portion out.

Wow. You are the first person in the wild I've seen that uses Floatplane. That's actually sick! Great to see it being used!

You have inspired me to start creating my own music in garage band on my 5th gen ipad, ive made about 12 different songs now

If there’s anything I learned from watching these videos it’s that the most horribly fucked up cymbals still make some proper good sound when using them👌🏻😄

Just stumbled upon your channel, and I'm already learning some neat stuff. My mom's a drummer, so this is pretty cool

It's like I'm getting advice how to build my kit in real time, thank you.

I play crash cymbals on a drumline, and the senior who taught me when I joined broke two two cymbals over his 3 seasons on the line. One fascinating thing about marching crashes is that when they are worn and close to cracking, they’ll start to invert when struck too hard. When a crack would appear, he’d keep playing them until it didn’t sound good, then he broke the cracked portion off and declared them dead. He then used the two broken cymbals to display pictures on at his grad party 😂

I really enjoy how unlike a lot of others you always show that you don’t need the most expensive or best stuff inorder to play.

Obsessed w this man’s streaming setup

Woo! Drums!

"If it sounds good it is good" what a legend of a quote. Amen to that bro

I LIKED THEM - sounded complex and nice

You can’t hide, DankPods

Try adding pop rivets to the China, I reckon it adds a really nice shimmer and a little extra decay. Great video, I was actually just looking at an Avedis A custom crash that has a tiny crack on the edge and wondered if it would be worth buying just to fix it. I have another of the same and having two would be great.

As someone watching this on a whim with no prior interest, this is just about the most entertaining a video like this could possibly be for me

I really needed to hear that last bit "If it sounds good, it's good" Cheers from a bass player in Florida

I hadn't expected to hear Dagothwave but I'm so, so glad I did

You have the ability of making me watch videos about stuff I don't really care and that is beautiful

The *tonk* at the beginning sold me on this video.

how did i just put it together that you are frank the snakes owner!!! i love frankie! great playing as well

I have a zildgen 16" K custom dark crash that was given free to me. The thing has a crack almost to the bell and what looks like bad attempts at rivits. It sounds exactly like an fx crash, FOR FREE. always check out cracked cymbals if you need to!! (:

You're such a good drummer, that you can make actual trash sound awesome. Its nice to watch someone who is a master of their craft.

I had a crack in my ride cymbal that slowly tore its way across the whole cymbal, best sounding china cymbal iv ever had

Getting broken cyms instead of beginner cymbals is actually a really good idea, good tip

They ARE awesome! unique and distinct! thank you!

That ride has a beautiful tone

Thank you for all the wonderful content ❤️ it makes my day everytime I see a new upload!

That's super cool. I sometimes keep broken goods, but I never find a use of them as I replace them. But sometimes, it makes want to touch the old things I used to have fan with.

I had no idea this was a thing!! Thanks Wade for giving us such good content ^_^

What a grand and intoxicating innocence

I didn’t realise how much I need drumified funky duck

I now need to find the vod of you playing dagoth wave

This is a nice DankPods spinoff

never watching this before but I automatically knew it was dank pods

I've had, and still have, a bunch of pro level cymbals that have been repaired (and I've had a bunch of pro level cymbals that I've tossed out before we knew how to repair them like we do now!) including a 90's era 16" K Dark crash with a big swoopy cut, a 17" Sabian AA Medium Thin crash, also with a big swoopy cut, both of which must have had between a quarter and a third of their total area gone, but still sounded great. I've got an 80's era Zildjian A Medium crash with a little triangle cut that sounds like nothing's changed, and an 18" A China Boy with a radial crack in one of the grooves that I did a slot cut on, and it sounds great! Just as China-ry as it was before, but a bit more trashy (and I think louder too). I wish I could have saved my 17" Z Custom Medium crash, that I drilled to stop a crack and it didn't work so I drilled it twice more (when the crack tree-branched off) and eventually it just lost a chunk that fell off. I loved that cymbal.

I like the look of some of those cracked cymbals more than normal!

"if it sounds good, it is good" thank you for this wisdom c:

oh my god how did i randomly stumble onto dankpods without stumbling onto dankpods

Honestly there sound fantastic

0:02 - 0:10 0:16 - 0:27 the song that plays faintly in these 2 intervals is a song called "Alte Kameraden".

I have NO IDEA how i got here. I was watching some phillipino martial arts video and then i saw this. I listen to music but not whatever this is lmao. I jabe now subscribed

They sound just fine

i didnt even knew this was from dank pod's many channels but I somehow felt pure energy from the thumbnail alone and instinctively clicked because of it

I love how the background music is Alte Kameraden

Reminds me 30 years ago when i was 10 and getting my B8 sabians then upgrade to *gasp* B8PRO! oh my. But then i saved after some years when i got my artstar custom kit and got AA crashes and AAX accessory cymbols, loved my set up.

The vulfpeck appearance makes so much sense lmao love your taste in music

That ride sounds great still! I love it

Sounds pretty good !

I don't even know much about drums but I just live your vids

Wow this layout for live streaming is really cool

been repairing cracked cymbals for ages, my favorite way to do it is a drill press with a hole saw bit made for tiles. basically you can't "cut" holes, you have to "sand" or "wear" the hole/cut the lines. one studio record my old drummer used crack repaired crashes and ride. middle/throat cracks carefully repaired so as not to lose any edge wash/etc. like reilley's are the absolute best, it basically just changes the length of the note on an already very heavy/short noted part of the cymbal anyway.

that right there is a cymbal of intelligence

Best I can tell, the rule of thumb with repairing cracks is you need a nice smooth radius about 6mm or more instead of hard edges on the cuts.

Dude it just hit me that your couch looks exactly like my aunt and uncle's old couch.

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