{"id":24839,"date":"2023-01-24T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:26:48","slug":"hat-test-1-take-experiment-15-k-custom-special-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24839","title":{"rendered":"Hat test &#8211; 1 take experiment &#8211; 15&#8243; K Custom Special Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this Sunday&#8217;s 1 take experiment, I&#8217;m hitting on some new hats for the 1st time in some time. I&#8217;m a big fan of the @zildjiancompany K Custom Special Dry line. I&#8217;ve migrated to a handful of them around the kit and these 15&#8243; hats are now in play. Not disappointed. The 2600m, gitter, and rain from the last week are filling in the space.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5PGY_6Dr9PE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">experimentalmusic #Drums #delay #synths #2600m #korg #wine #MXR #Darkmusic @boss #electronicmusicproduction<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>electronicmusic #musicproduction #musicflow #creatingmusic #studiojam #experimental #heavy #atmosphere #sounddesign #electronicmusic #recording #drumlife<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EricBeam1313\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this Sunday&#8217;s 1 take experiment, I&#8217;m hitting on some new hats for the 1st&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24839\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hat test &#8211; 1 take experiment &#8211; 15&#8243; K Custom Special Dry<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hat-test-1-take-experiment-15-k.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24754,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24754","url_meta":{"origin":24839,"position":0},"title":"One &#038; One &#8211; Arp 2600m Part 1.","author":"Eric","date":"May 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"2600m+Drums+ConstructionSpaceVerb\u2122 So after an exhausting day, I knew I only had one last chance to capture the sound of this open studio construction space before too much of the drywall went up. 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