Tadpui
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Lately I've been fighting the urge to buy a drum kit for my home studio. It'd just be for a small home studio room, no gigging or touring or anything like that. I'm just looking for something that records pretty well, and is somewhat compact (no 12-piece double-bass roto-tom rail system thing on a Tommy Lee rotating platform with a gong). I'm fine with a 4-piece, might go for a 5-piece.
From what I can tell so far, it looks like my local Craigslist ads are the best option. There are a fair number of "bought it for my kid, he played it once, now I want it out of my garage" kinds of ads. And they tend to include cymbals and hardware. Compare that to buying new, where just a shell pack runs $500-$1000 for barely over an entry-level kit. A lot of the used kits that I see on Craigslist and Reverb seem to be geared towards my needs, but I just don't know which brands I can trust in the just-above-entry-level range. What I'm seeing the most of:
- Pearl Export
- Tama Rockstar/Stagestar/Superstar
- Ludwig Blackhawk/Accent
- Rogers/Silvertone "the Sears years" kits
- obvious pieces of shit, even to my untrained eye (SP, Harmony, First Act, Premiere, Pearl Forum)
Any obvious brands/models to look for in my situation? I appreciate any input from any drum-wise fellas here.
From what I can tell so far, it looks like my local Craigslist ads are the best option. There are a fair number of "bought it for my kid, he played it once, now I want it out of my garage" kinds of ads. And they tend to include cymbals and hardware. Compare that to buying new, where just a shell pack runs $500-$1000 for barely over an entry-level kit. A lot of the used kits that I see on Craigslist and Reverb seem to be geared towards my needs, but I just don't know which brands I can trust in the just-above-entry-level range. What I'm seeing the most of:
- Pearl Export
- Tama Rockstar/Stagestar/Superstar
- Ludwig Blackhawk/Accent
- Rogers/Silvertone "the Sears years" kits
- obvious pieces of shit, even to my untrained eye (SP, Harmony, First Act, Premiere, Pearl Forum)
Any obvious brands/models to look for in my situation? I appreciate any input from any drum-wise fellas here.