How Are DDrum drums ?

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i was looking into purchasing a kit from them, are they worth it? how do they sound? i play punkish music like underoath, emery, as cities burn ect would they be good for me?

thanx in advance for your help
 
Their cheaper kits ie. the diablo are appaling but the higher end stuff is rated quite highly amongst users.
 
whats wrong with the lower kit? nice wood ect what did they mess up? any more oppinions
 
Its all looks and no sound, get something worth getting.
 
they do look very good, but what is wrong with the sound, how could they look so good and sound bad lol, what if you had nice heads like remo or somthing, are you guys base-ing all this off the stock heads maybe?
 
I personally know a local drummer that plays on a Mid-range DDrums set. It looks very nice, and sounds OK. I have your basic Pearl Exports with good heads and tuning, and they sound quite a bit better than his DDrums. Supposedly he payed around 750-800 bucks. Which would cover the cost for a nice set of Exports.
Yes, good heads and proper tuning will always help, but you can only make a bucket sound so good! ;)
 
jaykeMURD said:
I personally know a local drummer that plays on a Mid-range DDrums set. It looks very nice, and sounds OK. I have your basic Pearl Exports with good heads and tuning, and they sound quite a bit better than his DDrums. Supposedly he payed around 750-800 bucks. Which would cover the cost for a nice set of Exports.
Yes, good heads and proper tuning will always help, but you can only make a bucket sound so good! ;)

your right, does any1 one know how i can assemble a kit like aaron's from underoath, i really like the way he has his setup
 
msblaze said:
your right, does any1 one know how i can assemble a kit like aaron's from underoath, i really like the way he has his setup

Uhhhh, look at pics of his kit? :rolleyes:
 
Ugh, I hate Underoath and all that crap...so this will be a biased comment:

I'd say don't just try to copy him because what may work for him may be extremely uncomfortable for you.
 
Cult_Status02 said:
Ugh, I hate Underoath and all that crap...so this will be a biased comment:

I'd say don't just try to copy him because what may work for him may be extremely uncomfortable for you.

ok thanx alot, i respect your oppion lol, i was wondering if it would be comfortable, so basiclly just see what is comfortable for me and that is the best configuration eh?
 
Yes sir. In my oppinion it needs to be comfortable and practical. I saw a kid with a set that was set up with the high tom on the right side of his hi-hat, mid tom to the left, floor on the right, kick right in front of him, then the hi-hat there and snare to the left of the hi-hat...It's hard to explain but basically he did it so he could do one 16th note on each tom so starting with the right hand just bring his arms down: so high, mid, low, snare.

The problem with this was that that fill was the only reason it was set up like that, for any other fill it's just inconvenient and borders on difficult to do.

If you have a kit now, play around with the set up as much as you can, or go to a music store and move their shit around, at the very least, sit behind it to see if you can manage it. I for one can't do two floor toms very well because getting behind me with the way I sit can be some what difficult, so I have to find ways around it. I just moved all my tom tunings down half an octave or so and got a 3rd rack tom on a stand.
Good luck to you, let us know what you end up doing, and what works for you. I find that with that type of music, most people prefer to toms: one rack, one floor. Then a ride where the mid rack tom would normally be and crash cymbals placed wherever they want. Is this the type of set up you're talking about?
 
Cult_Status02 said:
Yes sir. In my oppinion it needs to be comfortable and practical. I saw a kid with a set that was set up with the high tom on the right side of his hi-hat, mid tom to the left, floor on the right, kick right in front of him, then the hi-hat there and snare to the left of the hi-hat...It's hard to explain but basically he did it so he could do one 16th note on each tom so starting with the right hand just bring his arms down: so high, mid, low, snare.

The problem with this was that that fill was the only reason it was set up like that, for any other fill it's just inconvenient and borders on difficult to do.

If you have a kit now, play around with the set up as much as you can, or go to a music store and move their shit around, at the very least, sit behind it to see if you can manage it. I for one can't do two floor toms very well because getting behind me with the way I sit can be some what difficult, so I have to find ways around it. I just moved all my tom tunings down half an octave or so and got a 3rd rack tom on a stand.
Good luck to you, let us know what you end up doing, and what works for you. I find that with that type of music, most people prefer to toms: one rack, one floor. Then a ride where the mid rack tom would normally be and crash cymbals placed wherever they want. Is this the type of set up you're talking about?


yeh thats the setup i'm talking about, but would i hit the ride everytime i would hit that tom?? why is it there? lol
 
msblaze said:
yeh thats the setup i'm talking about, but would i hit the ride everytime i would hit that tom?? why is it there? lol

Huh?

It's like this:
 

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Yeah, it's like tourettes' picture shows. If you're use to doing a 3 tom fill though, it'll take some getting use to to not hit that ride, I'd imagine.
 
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