They are extremely consistent, and have a nice clear sound that I really like. In spite of all that I really like the drums. They are both massive and heavy - the bass drum tom bracket uses a 1.25 inch tube, which is tough to find if the original is missing. They tend to get made fun of a lot - guys will say that they're made of sawdust and glue or cardboard - but the guys saying this are usually playing plywood drums, but when I point that out to them they don't seem to get it.īesides being heavy, the other problem with them is the mounts and spurs. I guess I could see it with the Gold Crown drums, but I occasionally see the other series like Masteredge or Mastertouch, and they seem like they're a tough sell because not that many people know about them. I'm kind of surprised that you're finding them to be expensive used. I also have a 12/14/18 kit that I put together from orphans that also sounds great - I have S Hoops on it which gives it a Gretsch kind of vibe. But if you dig more synthetic sounds, I'd definitely suggest finding one and checking it out.I have a couple of sets with Acousticon 516 shells - a 10/12/13/14/16/22 kit where the 10/12/13 are power toms, so I don't use it as much, but it sounds great. While the kit had a ton of sustain and resonance, it lacked the warmth and penetration I want from a kit. The build quality of the kit was just as good as any other high-end builder, but the sound has to be for you. It was crazy! But the snare sounded fantastic though - cranked super-high with an e-ring sounded like Keith Carlock's side snare, it was nice. However, they tuned really well and sustained for longer than any other drums I've ever heard - a full 4.5 seconds by my count on the 10" tom w/ a coated Ambassador once I got it well in tune. The drums themselves didn't have a super-pleasing tone to my ear, sounded too synthetic and bongy, like a weird mix of acrylic, steel-shell and dense wood. We had a guy bring in an older 4-piece kit, 16x20, 7x10, 14x14, and a 14x3 piccolo. With over a 200 episodes and counting, Working Drummer Podcast is the source for those interested in what its like to be a. (Not sure of this, but that's what I've been able to figure out by looking at them.) What I can tell you for sure is that they are LOUD and have SUSTAIN beyond belief. It's (to my understanding) a process that involes a long, thin sheet of some kind of fiber composite schtuff that is wrapped around and around and compressed to turn hundreds of layers of this stuff into a shell. Both are made out of Remo's proprietary Acousticon shell, which they also make a lot of their hand drums out of. Remo currently has a couple different lines of drums - TSS and Gold Crown.
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