birch vs maple for recording

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earthboundrec said:
I picked up a Premier Artist Birch off ebay for $500.00 (it was a damn good deal) They're fuckin' the greatest sounding drums you'll find short of custom shop dw and shit like that. But yeah, they work fuckin' excellent for recording.
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So what did you do to make sure the drums were in good condition. I mean you can't really tell if drums are out of round on a picture.
 
Janesaid2me said:
http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/
go navigate that website....it has loads of info on drums including how different woods generally sound.
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Where you answering my question? I was actually on the drum tuning bible last night, but I didn't see any information about how to tell if drums are in good shape especially if they are on the internet.
 
I gotta go with Supercreep on this and suggest you don't buy without kickin' the tires. However, that's not always possible especially if you live in a rural area and the local music store only keeps the drums in the windows or roped off. We had one like that where I grew up. Now I live in LA and you walk into a Guitar Center and every drummer wants to show YOU...just how good they are. (cough!! Bullshit)

One way of finding out the condition of drums is ask the seller how they've been stored. Drums usually only go out of round if:

A. They're poorly made. Cheap kits.

B. Thin drums

C. Stored in a damp area with the heads detuned.

The answer is all of the above, but if a drum has been left in tune with the heads on and tension applied, A and B very seldom happen. C is the most common problem. I have a friend with a set of Noble & Cooley's he left in a corner with the heads off for 3 years.

What a waste!! (sigh!) It was . . . not pretty!!


Pencils down everyone.
 
PhilGood said:
Now I live in LA and you walk into a Guitar Center and every drummer wants to show YOU...just how good they are. (cough!! Bullshit)
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i hear that!!!!!!!!!
 
patlang12 said:
So what did you do to make sure the drums were in good condition. I mean you can't really tell if drums are out of round on a picture.
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I had them shipped insured and bought from a trustworthy guy. The guy that I bought them from had won them in a drum competition and had no use for them so he sold them brand new. As new drums, if there were quality issues it would have been caused in transit so I would've filed the insurance claim and kept the drums either way.

You can buy off ebay, you just gotta know what you want, know what the drums will sound like and be careful about it.
 
earthboundrec said:
I had them shipped insured and bought from a trustworthy guy. The guy that I bought them from had won them in a drum competition and had no use for them so he sold them brand new. As new drums, if there were quality issues it would have been caused in transit so I would've filed the insurance claim and kept the drums either way.

You can buy off ebay, you just gotta know what you want, know what the drums will sound like and be careful about it.
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NICE STEAL!!!!! :D


HEY Patlang12
I would say go with maple if your playing more live stuff.
Let the engineers figure out the recording.
You can do just about anything these days with all the plug in's they have.
Pearl makes some nice Maple kit's.
Good luck!
 
Bdrum said:
NICE STEAL!!!!! :D


HEY Patlang12
I would say go with maple if your playing more live stuff.
Let the engineers figure out the recording.
You can do just about anything these days with all the plug in's they have.
Pearl makes some nice Maple kit's.
Good luck!
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I don't think the kit will be used too much live. I will be recording it some so I am the engineer. I think it might be better to get a used set, but I don't really know that much about drums, so I don't want to get drums that are out of round and all of that stuff.
 
That's a fuckin' great set man, I have the same one but a little newer and in green. You won't be disappointed. Just remember to have it shipped insured in case there's any issues with. Good luck bro!
 
Oh, and if you can get that set for 5-600 dollars it would be an excellent buy. I think those sets go for about $1200 from Guitar Center, with shitty heads and no hardware included.
 
do you think the PREMIER ARTIST birch set will sound good for Chris Layton's drums(stevie ray vaughan's drummer) and/or mitch mitchell(hendrix's drummer)

ps. exspecially on recording
 
I think if those drummers were playing them for Stevie or Jimi they'd sound fuckin' amazing. I don't know what kind of set those drummers play but I know a premier birch set sounds great regardless of the style being played. A buddy of mine took them to SXSW in Austin, TX and thought they sounded awesome. (The band he's in is now recording a cd at Cheap Trick's studio by invitation and being signed to Universal... not saying that has anything to do with the drum set used.) You would definately not go wrong with them.

I had a set of Pacific drums (their nice maple series) before I got this set and it sounded descent, but I think the Premier drums are of better quality, better craftsmanship and overall better sound than the Pacific kit. That's my opinion.
 
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