Favorite drum brand

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What is your favorite brand of drums?

  • Pearl

    Votes: 36 19.5%

  • Mapex

    Votes: 13 7.0%

  • Yamaha

    Votes: 30 16.2%

  • Pacific

    Votes: 6 3.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 100 54.1%
  • Total voters
    185
Fibes Drums = nice sound

I tested dw, pork pie, mapex, pearl, and tama before ending up with the fibes kit. It's just the kit for me.
 
I own a Gretsch 7-piece with melodic toms (though these days it's configured as a standard 5-piece set-up) that I've had since the mid-80's. The shell of the snare that came with the kit became warped over the years, so I replaced it with a Pearl. I played one of the newer Gretsch kits at GC recently and really liked it.
 
For snares nothing can compare to Dunnett snares! They are the best sounding out their by far.

As for full drum sets Pearl Masterworks are pretty nice. DW's sound pretty good.
 
My First Snare

PEARL FFX............I....LOVE...It. :D
Traded in my pipe drum.
Next will be the Championship series :cool:
 
zbert said:
Pacific drums have the DW name but are an introduction line drum. I don't think they are made in the DW factory either. Most likely made in the cheap factories of China, etc... Even the more "expensive" Pacific drum aren't that good. My advice is get a decent set of Mapex. Right now they seem to be the best drum for the mid-line dollar. Mid-line meaning not a beginner set and not a pro set.
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I would have to agree with you on that, Except that i would say that the newer pacific kits aren't that good. i have an older cx one, 4-5 years old and they sound amazing, both live and recorded. this is before the made the hardware all wave and fancy, back when it looked like you could drop it out of a truck. i love that kit. and ive also played on a 69 ludwig, it was nice i just didn't like the tom sound that much, and ive played on a couple pearls and i just hate them, id never get a pearl
 
I dig Arbiter.. Quite impressive tuning system, only one lug per head! The also have 'flat' drums that I'm willing to check out soon, allthough the kit won't fit with the music I do too much, but hey... I own a snare (maple) from Arbiter.. An image:

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Gretch

I saw a Gretch kit once with gold plated rims :D
Too bad it was used as a tour kit :eek:
 
I'm not a drummer but my uncle always played Tama so I bought a Tama Rockstar kit.
 
You all don't know what you are missing

Don Sleishman is the man to consult for drumming. He lives in Queensland Australia, and he makes his drums with his own two hands, in his twin garage. The beauty of sleishman drums is the 100% completely suspended shells, which are held in place purely by the heads themselves. No other foreign objects touch the shells at all. you can check out what i mean at www.sleishman.com The site isn't much chop, but the information is there about Don Sleishman's top shelf drums! They are without a doubt the best drums i have ever seen, heard, learned of. They ROCK!!! :cool:
 
Hey Karlos, I don't know where you get your information but please check it's accuracy before posting it up here.

Don Sleishman works out of a small facility in Sydney.......NOT a double garage in Qld. Like so many other major manufacturers, he uses Keller shells from the US although there was a guy in Qld doing some shell work for a limited time and although his shells looked nice they didn't have the same sound quality as the Keller shells...........I've had extensive "hands on" with both types in the studio.

:cool:
 
fenix said:
www.ocdrum.com nuff said. Unless you are a signed artist or live in the OC area...you'll most likely be put on a waiting list of almost a year. (could be longer...last time I checked it was almost a year). This is the company Adrian Young (of no doubt) is partial owner of. I suggest you old folks check them out. They put almost all (if not all) other drum companies to shame.
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See, I find these drums to be the most overhyped, overpriced drums on the planet. They're using Keller shells like everyone else!!

I gotta go with Fibes or Pork Pie.
 
Rogers. Great big sound. I've modified mine a lot. A friend gave it to me looking really shitty. So I got new heads, cymbals, hardware and the set sounds amazing. However, I don't like the 20 inch floor tom on the XP-8. I modified mine to a 4 piece putting the 14 inch on the rack and mounted the 15 inch tom to use as the floor. Sounds great. I wish Rogers were still around.
 
karlos_sanshez said:
Don Sleishman is the man to consult for drumming. He lives in Queensland Australia, and he makes his drums with his own two hands, in his twin garage. The beauty of sleishman drums is the 100% completely suspended shells, which are held in place purely by the heads themselves. No other foreign objects touch the shells at all. you can check out what i mean at www.sleishman.com The site isn't much chop, but the information is there about Don Sleishman's top shelf drums! They are without a doubt the best drums i have ever seen, heard, learned of. They ROCK!!! :cool:
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I have a problem with this whole concept.

In order for a drum to be properly tuned - the bottom head and top head have to tuned the same note (although they may be as much as an octave apart) - otherwise you have problems with overtones - discordance between the 2 heads.

Now, with the exception of 1 snare I use occassionally for recording - I use a thinner head on the drum bottom than I do on the batter head.

This is especially important on the snare - but I use a light bottom head on all my drums - this because they project better (IMHO).

Howver - due to this - the 2 drum heads have to be tensioned differently - because the thicker the skin - the lower the head's center frequency will be.

Thus - 2 different thickness heads cannot be tuned to the same frequency with the exact same tension.......... and so (drawing the logical conclusion) I would have to use batter heads on my drum bottoms in order for this system to work properly.

As I mentioned - it's more important for snare drums (otherwise they are just very VERY dead sounding) - so how does one tune the snare properly without the ability to tension each head to it's proper tone?

By the way - FWIW - I tune my kit to the key of A major 7th.

Rod
 
I have been playing drums for over 32 years. Current kit is a Fibes Crystalie (clear shells), 22 Bass Drum, 10 and 12 Rack Toms (w/RIMS mounts), 16 Floor and an 5.5 X 14 SFT snare (Buddy Rich's favorite model). Hardware is all DW, cymbals are all Zildjian 'A's. I do a lot of performing and recording with this kit. If you are going to perform in front of people, buy something decent like Fibes. www.fibes.com
If you're just going to play in the basement, then buy something less expensive.
 
i think the high number of "other"...is probably due to that you left out alot of major brands. Actually you left out all of the brands I'd consider the "good" ones such as... Ludwig, DW, Sonar, Gretsch and custom drum sets like Drum Solo by Greg Gaylord... which is what my drummer uses.
 
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