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Ok, I am a guitar/kybd/bass player. I want to buy/learn drums and yes, I am nuts or excentric or whatever. I really don't like junk, so generally speaking I usually buy mid to top shelf stuff. I am looking at a set of Pearl master customs for the drums and really have no idea for the cymbols. Does anyone have any suggstions on either drums or cymbols?
 
I love Sabian AA's. I have two 17" Fast Crashes that are my bread and butter. Just my opinion.
 
ur just starting and you want to buy a masters. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. i've been playing most of my life and i own an elx. o well. cymbals - ermm personaly i play a mix of AAX, AA, and some A customs. thats my choice. basicly with sabian you cant go wrong. you need to go into a shop and try them out and then pick the choices you want. not much else i can say. its your own peronal opinion. and the music style you play of course.
 
drummerdude666 said:
ur just starting and you want to buy a masters. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. i've been playing most of my life and i own an elx. o well. cymbals - ermm personaly i play a mix of AAX, AA, and some A customs. thats my choice. basicly with sabian you cant go wrong. you need to go into a shop and try them out and then pick the choices you want. not much else i can say. its your own peronal opinion. and the music style you play of course.
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Ok, grrrrrrrr does cover it. I actually collect guitars and stuff (http://home.comcast.net/~bonrox/guitars/gut_inv.htm) and want a good set to go with everything else. I have been playing and giging for 30 some years and in all that time, I never wanted to pick up a set of sticks. Over the past 6 months, I have had a desire to pick up on drums. Like I said, I am a bit excentric when it comes to equipment.

So anyway, Sabians were what was recomended at the shop, but I thought I would check with you guys before making a final decision. I was going to go with digital drums, but I was told from multiple people the I would be a lot better off learning on acoustics. Besides, the Pearls look much better than the electric drums and they are the right color (lol).
 
Sabians are excellent, and I think they still offer a warranty which Zildjian does not.
Acoustics are far superior to electrics, especially when learning how to play. The importance of stick control becomes obvious when playing acoustics.
 
I also play Sabians the AA or AAX are both very good. I personnaly use HH but I use my drums to generate a fair amount of income some I wanted the best (which to me were the HH).

For what it's worth, I played Zildjians for 25-30 years and I changed to Sabian (I've still got a lot of very good Zildjians - but the Sabians won me over when I was it the Sabians factory (about 6 years ago) and saw the care and dedication of the Sabian people (many Zildjian employees had gone to work for Sabian).

Regarding wanting quality gear - if you can afford it go for it. If you've been playing/gigging for 30 plus years you deserve to buy whatever you want. I've been a working musician for almost 40 years, (drums, percussion, guita, keys, bass, violin, banjo, harmonica) when it comes to drums/percussion - my main axe which generates most of my music related income - I always try to buy quality (not counting the several Wuhans I own simply becuase I love the way they sound)
 
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