kevincool87
10-02-2007, 07:46 PM
OK so I finally received my rack. To my surprise it looked much more complicated than I though it would be. What's more strange is that how people have never asked these question before... Maybe I'm doing it wrong..
Firstly the t-fitting. It's very distinctively angled and man I don't think I'll ever get used to that, as I won't be able to put up the stand correctly.
Secondly, I thought the tubes were just curved but it's curved both inwards and also slightly curved going up. So it's like a spiral shape. Which now means that the t fittings on the ends of the both left and right wings would have to be lower to the ones on the man body no questions asked.
Though it is a nice circular shape which kinda helps on placing my floor toms, I just.... how the hell do you get used to this stuff?
Thirdly, are the vertical tubes of the rack then supposed not to stand vertically up? Looks like no matter what I do it'll slightly lean towards outside. Did Roland do this so that it can take on weight? If they did, I'd understand and would think it's a good idea but....again wow what an extraordinary rack to get used to.
Finally but not least... rather very important, how in the world do you fold the left and right wings? All the horizontal tubes are of the same length and also the vertical tubes on the end makes overlapping not possible, unless I screw the t-fitting on the right wing's end off.
I saw a little footage on the rolandus.com site aout how David Garza was briefly going on about setting up the mds-20 rack, where he pulled the left wing and it gets stuck on the way because of the somehow overlapped right ring's vertical tube... lol. Next second he somehow pulled it off... Bweh?
Anyway thanks anyone for helping me out here, I love it and contrary to what others have said the rack and proper screwing of the t-fitting makes it unbelievably strong, way way more stronger than my Yamaha DTXtreme IIs rack. Although yes, the clamp does suck. If I lean slightly on one of the pads then it'll just slide down.
Thanks in advance
Kev
Firstly the t-fitting. It's very distinctively angled and man I don't think I'll ever get used to that, as I won't be able to put up the stand correctly.
Secondly, I thought the tubes were just curved but it's curved both inwards and also slightly curved going up. So it's like a spiral shape. Which now means that the t fittings on the ends of the both left and right wings would have to be lower to the ones on the man body no questions asked.
Though it is a nice circular shape which kinda helps on placing my floor toms, I just.... how the hell do you get used to this stuff?
Thirdly, are the vertical tubes of the rack then supposed not to stand vertically up? Looks like no matter what I do it'll slightly lean towards outside. Did Roland do this so that it can take on weight? If they did, I'd understand and would think it's a good idea but....again wow what an extraordinary rack to get used to.
Finally but not least... rather very important, how in the world do you fold the left and right wings? All the horizontal tubes are of the same length and also the vertical tubes on the end makes overlapping not possible, unless I screw the t-fitting on the right wing's end off.
I saw a little footage on the rolandus.com site aout how David Garza was briefly going on about setting up the mds-20 rack, where he pulled the left wing and it gets stuck on the way because of the somehow overlapped right ring's vertical tube... lol. Next second he somehow pulled it off... Bweh?
Anyway thanks anyone for helping me out here, I love it and contrary to what others have said the rack and proper screwing of the t-fitting makes it unbelievably strong, way way more stronger than my Yamaha DTXtreme IIs rack. Although yes, the clamp does suck. If I lean slightly on one of the pads then it'll just slide down.
Thanks in advance
Kev