This Drum Set SHOULD NOT Sound This Good - $400 Amazon Drum Set Review
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Yeah, I was not expecting this kit to sound this good. It's been a while since I've checked out a budget/beginner kit. All I'm gonna say is that I wish I had this kit as my first drum set!
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This Drum Set SHOULD NOT Sound This Good - $400 Amazon Drum Set Review 
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Would you play this kit? 👀
Yes
yes
Sure.
Indeed
I would of course.
My first kit was a PDP EZ. It sounded like cardboard and went out of tune if you breathed on it wrong.
bruh 😂
Damn squirrel farts!
Hahaha same, accurate af
@fartpoobox ohyeah nobody knows how to tune their first drum kit
@fartpoobox ohyeah "Dont know how to tune"... Dude the hardware on those kits are ass. Sure, it could sound "fine" when tuned properly and with good heads, but when it goes out of tune right after tuning the damn thing, I dont think its the drummer. Take your "superior drummer" attitude the fuck outta here. lmao
This proves the biggest thing I personally learned when I started drumming.
The difference in a $400 kit and a 4k kit is noticable.
But the difference between cheap cymbals and Good ones is incredible.
I 100% agree with this
Rocking with ZBTs was the worst.
Depends, I bought very cheaps cymbals that were great.. 'Fazley Excellence' Cymbals. You can hear them on RUclips.. really cheap
@Ikon: Please change your YT profile picture as it appears to be a mockery of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Mocking God places souls on the wide path to eternal damnation in the fires of Hell if they don’t repent/receive forgiveness for their sins prior to death. Peace!
@@RapidCycling07 Lmao shut up
Any drum set can sound amazing, it all depends on how well you tune it.
I was once given the opportunity to tune a $200 drum set, and when done the owner could not believe it was the same kit.
Exactly! Tuning is such an important aspect that too many drummers--seemingly--overlook.
They either overuse/over utilize muffling(usually in pursuit of that "studio" sound), or tune everything loose and dead.
You can only compensate for warped or low quality shells/skins so much, but if you can't tune for shit, a kit will almost always sound like crap, no matter how expensive or high quality it is.
@@_SomeRandum Drum Dial, Evans coated heads, and Moon Gel made all the difference for me. I’m playing on a PDP Z5 kit.
@@jackgill9965evans coated heads saved my life dude
There’s something oddly comforting about that blue sparkle wrap.. anyone else? If Mr. Rogers was a rock star drummer...
Birch shells, proper tuning and good playing- can't sound bad.
Someone's not experienced a fucked bearing edge 😁
@@CharlieLord haha true tho
Cant do proper tuning if the bearing is not done well. Especially in the floor tom, you cant get low tuning if the head/bearing is horrible.
But pretty much you can make any cheap drum sound good.
exactly... and from the sounds, no issues with the bearing edges.. LOL
Amazon says poplar not birch.
This mans playing has improved tremendously over the past couple years, good shit dave!
Yes!!!
Let's be honest everybody got way better through quarantine lol
I was thinking the same thing🤔
That was a nice groove!
@@cbingham.mp4265 honestly, I went through like half of covid feeling like I was getting WORSE😂 But, I’m thankful for that as through it I picked up guitar, and after I stopped playing drums for maybe 2 months ish, I started playing and seriously progressed on the drums and guitar. I’ve been a drummer for 7 yrs, and I’ve never progressed at anything more than I have at guitar and drums during covid
Your engineer did a great job with the sound to be fair.
That's the gist of it all. You can slap a dead blow hammer on cow shit and the engineer can process it and make it sound recordable.
exactly....get earthworks microphones, professional pre-amps, professional mixing, and yes, a cheap kit will sound better than the average gigging kit.
@@PepperDarlington thanks, now I want to hear that
Oh the power of the guy behind the curtain. They can help sell winter coats in the middle of summer.
Only so much that an engineer can do... Let's be real here lol
I am pretty impressed with the snare sound. A lot of cheap sets that I have played the snare rings a lot more. This one sounds pretty tight.
Just in time for Eastar !
I'll shut up now 😂
No more of your bunny business!
Lol, that was a good one !!
Eggselent joke
@@emmanuel.a9761 Yolk*😂
Platinum dad joke
4:20 - This moment is the best demonstration of the drums in a mix. They sound good. Great playing, David.
420 is always the best time stamp😉
david,
i’ve been watching for a number of years and i can’t help but be impressed by your playing progress.
keep it up dude.
That thing is amazing for $400, absolutely. My first was a Remo five piece with half the hardware missing. Black and blue zebra stripe, whick honestly looked pretty cool. The two mounted toms were exactly the same, you just had to tune them differently. I was incredibly grateful for it and put a couple thousand hours on it but having this one would have been fantastic.
"L-Arm Systems are by far the most superior way to mount a tom"
Pearl ... *sweating"
I had a Pearl sticker on the back of my car that read: Pearl, the best reason to play drums. I crossed out the word drums and wrote: TAMA. 😆
Number one reason I don’t play pearl. The mounts 🤷♂️
@@caseyobrien2681 I hate the look of them 😅
Actually not quite the most superior. There is a superior mount called the G-Rod reso mount. I make them to replace all my own L rods.
I instantly thought of Pearl too. I used to have a Pearl world series.
1. I've gigged with way worse than that.
2. Killer tuning, recording etc
3. Sick grooves, sick tune, major Stanton Moore vibes. I kinda forgot this was a review video and focused on that music. Good job!
Boy does this video bring back memories. Your $400.00 drum kit sounds absolutely fantastic. And, it has truly amazing hardware for it’s price point. My first drum kit was a four piece “Starlight” I received for Christmas in 1965. I was 12 years old. I didn’t realize how bad it sounded until I saw “Cream” live in 1967. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t tune the Starlight kit to sound like Ginger Baker’s Ludwig double bass kit. It was that failed drum tuning experience that awakened the love of drumming in me. I literally learned to play the drums by endlessly listening to “Fresh Cream”, “Disraeli Gears”, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and “The Who Sell Out” slowed down to 16 RPMs on my parent’s stereo console. Thanks!
Way better than my first kit. I started off with a CB700 in high school It was made with that wood composite material, like particle board. My parents bought it for me as a graduation present. So of course, I appreciated it and played the heck out of it for years. :)
I still have/use that snare from time to time.
Damn, I wish my first drum kit sounded this good. I have a feeling a lot of kids will be getting this kit for Christmas or birthdays this year.
I am 15 I started drumming 4 months ago and I had to get a cheap electric drum kit because of neighbors when I get older I'll get myself an acoustic drum kit
@@kitkat-zr6lg That's awesome, stick with it and have fun!
It won’t sound like this,, unless he’s got good mics a mixing desk with eq compression and noise gates,,, but if he has? Then he will have a decent kit as well.
Shoot, Imma a pro and I could totally gig with this
@@kitkat-zr6lg Hang in there young man, you are gaining valuable experience using electronics so when you get an acoustic kit you could have a hybrid kit and know how to get the best out of both. BTW, wear hearing protection, tinnitus sucks, trust me. I'm on a budget, but Alpine MusicSafe earplugs are a lifesaver. Played without plugs for over 30 years, have never played without them the past ten or so. Enjoy the ride and as OB IV above said, have fun!!!!!!!!!
Why didn’t kits like this exist when I was a kid?? You get this quality for less than $1K??? That’s a STEAL
Seriously, this is better than any entry level kit from my day (e.g. Pearl Export). You couldn't get birch shells for less than $1500.
Because US companies weren't exploiting the hell out of Chinese ones working for them until they get absolutely fed-up and decided to offer better value since they don't need to invest in any branding or distribution because of Amazon...
Simple economic equation really :) The same way that at first Japanese instruments had a bad reputation in the 60's, a few Chinese compagnies will overrun the American ones they were working for oversea. Just like Yamaha, Sony, Pearl, Tama did...
I don’t think a steal, but definitely perfect price point. New heads will put you at $600 which would buy a nice used kit.
1k? Try like under $400!!
@@jas_bataille that’s sad as fuck
My son and I have been looking for a starter kit and I think we found it. Thanks for this video David!!
In my country we got a saying: "The indian is more important than the arrow".
Instrument quality is important but more important is to have good musicians making good music
I definitely agree with you there, but the reverse can also be true, a very experienced, gifted Indian with a shit bow, may not do so well. Yes he can probably do fine with a sub par bow, probably better than an ungifted Indian with a high end bow, but after something’s quality gets too low it can become detrimental on skill level
OKAY WITH THE FOOT/HAND SINGLES!! I see you bro!
FYI per Amazon seller.
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Question: Why does the image say the drums are made of 8 layer horizontal birch and the descriptions says they are poplar?
Answer: Dear Customer, the product material is poplar, please refer to the product description. We are sorry for the wrong information displayed in the product picture. We have reported this problem to relevant departments for improvement.
By Moukey SELLER on April 3, 2021”
Ooof 🤣🤣🤣
Their site says it's birch
Marketing at its best, wording is so important to get you excited of quality of product at an unheard of price! Then slowly but surely slip in the true type of wood which is indeed poplar. Poplar is just a percentage mixture of different wood as In mahogany, birch, mixed in with less expensive plywood sheets = Poplar which as we all heard sounds great for price tag!?!
@@davidcarrizales3189 Poplar is a different tree
You can get a great sound out of (almost) any kit with the right heads and tuning, but to get a sound as good as this with stock beginner heads is pretty good! Cymbals are another story - cheap cymbals will always sound cheap, but at least you can start practicing from the get go. I'm impressed!
Huge upgrade in quality from what "beginner" sets used to be. There are so many quality used sets available cheap right now though, seems silly to buy something like this new.
Exactly, I’d rather spend $200 more and get a nice used Yamaha or something else name brand
Well they reached out to him and asked for his opinion of them. A lot of people know nothing about drums at all and go and buy without taking the time to become knowledgeable. They distrust used gear because they don't know what they are receiving whether it's good or bad. So for those people this is a good deal and a great review.
the Ludwig Breakbeat kit is the best drumset in this price point and it’s not even close. that or a used old set, like the 90s set I bought for 135 dollars lol.
@@Zipgun66
That goes for any product. Unless I can see/feel/hear a used item in person, I always tend to buy new. I don’t have time to pay for someone else’s carelessness because more often than not it doesn’t matter what it is, it turns out to be used crap. Of course, that really depends on the item and the price. Goes for most things for me though.
I picked up a TAMA superstar set for about $600 used hardware included and kick pedal. It has Aquarian studio heads on it. It sounds incredible.
I grew up starting with a CB700 kit in the early 80’s. It was more expensive and didn’t come close to this. I believe one important part of this kit you’ve demoed is the birch shells. This kit sounds great. Thanks for sharing.
For a low-end kit, that kit sounds like a beast! The toms sound great for an inexpensive kit. That is a value for a beginning drummer or an intermediate drummer as a practice kit.
What amazes me most is your progress as a drummer. You've gotten pretty good over the 4 years I've been watching ;)
Damn... that’s actually a really nice kit. Especially visually
Anyone knows that song that he's playing to , I really want to play along with it ,also the kit sounds great perfect for gospel 😄
As a drum teacher, I can safely say I’m now recommending this to new students. If it’s that good for the price, it’s a done deal
I’ve already found ‘em going for $325.99
@@kingrick5494 where?
@@daveparsons7756 where???? I need this kit
Why don’t you try one first before recommending it based on a RUclips video. Sheesh Louise
- another drum teacher
Dude your playing has gotten so much better after the last few years. You’re so polished now 🙏 love your videos :)
There's so many great kits out there now for around this price range. It'd be nice to hear this out of the mix and without an EQ, just raw. Especially when advertising it's really a must.
Everyone talking bout the sound of the drums, but no one gon talk about david's great drumming?
When I was a kid in the 80's you ether had mega expensive pro kits, super expensive mid level kits or...
affordable junk with laughable mounting systems and hardware. The drums sounded like Tupperware.
$400 bucks will give you an amazing amount of quality now a days.
I concur. Oh do you remember the sad old CB700’s? Actually mine sounded ok if tuned well and played well, but the hardware was terrible. This kit above is impressive for the price. I’m also biased towards birch kits.
but can we just appreciate how nasty his groove is?? well done bro 👌🏼
The drumming is excellent, of course, but that kit does sound great. It articulates really well in all the registers, even with the ghost notes on the perimeter of the snare. Sounds excellent. Don't think anyone could ask for more than that sound as a budget set.
Great video! Been noticing you’re uploading a lot more in the past year and a half and I just wanted to thank you for taking the time and effort to share with us!
Yeah, this is miles and miles away from my first drum shit...uh, I mean KIT. Amaaaaaazing quality in this no name drum set. As usual, your playing is above and beyond. Thanks for another great video!
Great video. My first kit was a low end Pearl from about 1979. I actually made it sound decent and used it into my college days in the late 80's. I even used it while playing in the jazz band in college because it sounded better than the late 1960's ROYCE kit they had. Oh yes and my own cymbals.These Amazon drums sound way better out of the box than what I had back then. I am from Louisiana and have gig'd all over the south and gave lessons for years and I always told my students that I could make a cheap set sound good if I wanted to but this set sound great for the price,,,,,,less the cymbals.
Particularly impressed with how good you got that snare to sound. Well done!
Ah man, the number of stencil kits I got just to learn techniques and tuning - great way to get your fundamentals solid!
Damn man these drums sound so good. I blew my mind open when you played this kit. And surprisingly, this kit is just $400 for one whole kit. Satisfying.
I've got their unique clamp style drumstick holder clamped to my hi-hat stand and it stays rock solid with no vibrations, rattles, etc. Holds the tools I need for whatever the tune calls for at a moments notice. Like you, I love the 'entry' level drums of today, people beginning their journey don't realize how well they have it. Besides poplar, birch is simply an amazing wood for drums. A poplar/wenge/birch trio would be killer.
My first drum set is what I’m currently playing
They’re electric ⚡️
Alesis nitro mesh
They get the job done for solo playing along to drum less tracks
I like learning from watching
One thing I learned from you is to use the floor Tom with almost a semi ghost note with the left snare hand
I am gonna try to incorporate this for sure! Thanks!
Damn brother. Sounds better than my $600 set!
I didn't know what to expect, but this was much better than whatever I expected.
My first kit was an Astro kit by Taye. Once I bought new heads and learned how to tune, it sounded awesome. Now I play a Mapex Meridian Maple kit, and It sounds great. Thanks for sharing.
Your playing rdavidr is a drum lesson in itself….I’d had my students watch this over and over! Superb
WHY don’t you get as good and teach your students to mimic you? Where has excellence gone? I haven’t taught in years but is that all drum lessons are now?? RUclips videos???? Gross.
I love it I always wanted a drumset as a kid and never got the chance of owning one. Love your videos by the way
Got my first set in the mid-50's, when you had your choice between Ludwig, Gretch or Rodgers. I got the Rodgers for the "ball and socket" hardware. All top quality brands, a number of years before the lower priced/quality sets came out. Only downside was that I had to save for a helluva long time before I had enough money to buy!
I had a decent toy kit when I was like 10, but my first real kit was a Tama Swingstar. It was a great first kit, and currently I rock a Mapex Armory Series kit with the Exterminator snare. I'm loving it! Great vid, Dave! The kit sounds pretty good 😎
My first set was Ludwig, black lacquer with the gold strip around the middle. I bought it from an old man who was retiring from drums. I was 13 at the time and now at 69, I'm contemplating retiring mine.
Would love to hear them with better heads. I'm shocked that a company finally did what one could've done all along. Make a decent drum set for under 500 bucks.
would love to hear just room mics on it and also to see your daw for this recording. Sounds killer man.
I got this kit a few years ago when i was just starting. It sounds GREAT. Keep doing what your doing Eastar.
Honestly, did that kit sound this good RAW? I can make a coffee can kit sound like a $10,000 kit through processing.
My first and only kit is a CB drum kit. Used. I got it for $100. Because I'm a painter, I stripped the wraps and made my own custom stain, got new heads cymbals and kick pedal. I Kept the stock hardware . I'm always getting compliments on how good it sounds. I pretty much want a new kit because of the brand name behind it. Pearl , DW...
But I haven't bought one because I can't afford it and also my kit sounds pretty good. Cheap kits CAN sound very nice!
Thanks for the vids man! ✌️
You should do a video where you put a ridiculous amount of lugs on a Tom or snare to see how it sounds 😎
Finding rims might be tough, but I like the idea
@@NeighborGatsy i’m sure he could make them somehow
yes he should
@@lukewoods4985 yep, the idea could probably work with wood hoods.
@@NeighborGatsy
He can just get old school single flange hoops from DFD.
The type with the little lug hooks. Then he’d just have to buy the extra hooks and lugs.
He could do any amount he wanted to. An even amount… odd amount… in small clusters… even totally random placement.
(I wouldn’t advise the last one)
It’s always a good day when rdavidr uploads :)
My first kit was one of those groove percussion kits with the huge rack toms. I’m on a Saturn IV nowadays and I love it, great for playing gojira
My first drum set was a Slingerland 5-piece red sparkle that had been sitting for who knows how long in the back of a nearly forgotten storage room. Yeah, something like this might have been nice, back then.
It was Christmas, 1986, I think; I would have been a freshman in HS, and all I wanted was a drum set (I'd been learning through school band for a few years)! My parents had gone to the only real musical instrument store in the area, and couldn't afford anything they had on display, or that they could order; not that any orders would arrive in time. Due to their work schedules and other issues, my parents hadn't been able to make this specific shopping foray until less than a week before the 25th.
As my mom would tell it years later: (yes, this is pretty much how she described it) she was visibly heartbroken that they couldn't get me what I wanted. The salesman was sympathetic, but couldn't do much. After a few moments of my mother just staring at the sets on display, things she really knew nothing about, trying not to break down, and my dad just standing quietly, looking at the floor, with his hand on my mom's shoulder, feeling that nagging sensation of failure that a man might feel at a time like that, the store owner stepped out from his office, walked over to them, and softy said, "Come with me," and led them down to the back, back, back of the basement storage, where he opened a door to a room that clearly hadn't been opened in quite some time, with cob webs everywhere. He and my dad went in and started looking around. Among the odds and ends and other relics, they found the Slingerland shells, stacked together, no heads, and missing some hardware; it did have the "Set-o-matic" T-style double tom mounting hardware. Even though it was now past closing time, the owner took everything to the workshop where he cleaned things up, and started piecing together lugs and rims and felts and whatever else it needed. In fact, he actually did not have a wooden hoop for the bass, and ended up putting a standard metal rim on it! He then had to jerry-rig a way to connect the pedal, which was actually kinda ingenious, as I recall! He threw everything together with some well-traveled used cymbal and hi-hat stands, along with a 4-pc box set of Zildjian Scimitars (new, still cheaper than even the used stuff he had, I guess), and gave it all to them for a price that I doubt did much to move his books into the black. Oh yeah, and he included a well-cared-for used Ludwig stainless steel snare that I wish I still had!
So, Christmas morning comes, and all the gifts had been opened, and there was no sign of the one thing I had really asked for! My mom asked me what was wrong, and I tried to put up a brave face. She told me how she and dad knew what I had had my heart set on, but, that they just couldn't afford any of the sets that the salesman had shown them (not a lie), and how horrible they felt. I tried valiantly to be mature about it, saying I understood, and that I really appreciated what they HAD gotten me, etc., etc. Thankfully, they didn't torture me for too long, as very soon, I began to hear the sound of drums coming from the other room! My older, then-college-aged brother, who was a bit of a multi-instrumentalist back then, was playing them, at least, until I ran in and kicked him off of the throne! That set served me all through high school and beyond, including with a couple of short-lived bands that actually did a few performances, and when I played in the pit for a few community theater musical productions (GREASE and WORKING are two of the ones I remember)!!
So... no, I don't wish I had had anything OTHER that what I did as my first drum set!!
Awesome story. The first kit I ever played was a Slingerland kit at my Junior High. It was excellent. Tuned to perfection.
My first kit was a Ddrum Dominion limited edition. I got it for 450 with some yamaha solid drive double kick petals. I was working at Burger King at the time and had to separate the payments on it I think 3 times? I bought it off of someone who was moving and had way to many drums that he didn't want to take with him. I still have this kit and honestly don't know if I'll ever play another.
18" deep on a 20" kick? What is this? 2005? I thought we figured out that super deep bass drums kind of suck like 10 years ago.
This is on par with a $500 PDP set, which was arguably the best kit to start out with when I was first looking to get a kit. Good to see that the sound is so much more accessible. Amazon of all places!
Hey, your playing has improved!
This kit is light-years ahead of the first kit I ever had (Brand New, Powersonic brand).
Wow with some minor upgrades it sounds great . I was surprised how nice the snare sounded not a bad kit it's a great starter
Minor upgrades? Do you know how much cymbals cost? Hardware is also quite expensive but compared to the cymbals, that would be the minor point.
I could gig in a cover band with a drumset like that all my life
Geez David! Your drumming has improved so much since I started watching you. Way to f-ing go.
What the heck I can't believe how good this thing sounds 🤯 I now have a new favorite drum set to recommend go my students, thank you!!
Lavish Youth signature kit! ;) Me too, fellow drum instructor! (It's Micah lol sup dude!)
Heck yeah that sounded way better then my current 1st drum set
I'm more curious how this sounds live in person the power of mic's and good mixing works wonders. But awesome on them for building them with birch tho
I have a $700 Yamaha Birch kit and with excellent tuning...it sounds professionally amazing! I was stunned how great it sounds. I would play!
Absolutely killer groove you laid down there! Nice playing!
It doesn't matter who made the drums or how good they look. It's all in how you tune them and MAKE them sound! My set is made of of a bunch of mix & match pieces picked up over several years/decades. It's now a 14-piece set (15, if I include the piccolo snare) whereas, it used only be a 12 or 13-piece set. At least twice, I've walked into a venue for a gig with this crazy looking set (some are silver, red, blue, woodgrain, white pearl (badly ripped up) and even 2 of them have contact paper on them with strawberries printed all over it) and the sound guy or someone else would start laughing and making fun of them. My right bass drum is a strawberry 20", my left is a woodgrain 22" but, I tune the 20" to the 22". In every case where this happened, the same guy would come to me after the show and tell me how amazed he was and how great they sounded!! Maybe, some day, I'll find a way to include the Simmons (5-piece) and V-Drums (13-piece). At one point, I even had a tympani, a 4-pad Synare and a set of 6" 8" and 10" Roto-Toms.
I don't care WHAT they look like, as long as they do their job and sound good! I'm NOT there to look pretty, I'm there to play drums!!
My first drum set was $80... 3 years later I'm still playing on it.
My first set was FREE... LOL
My brother gave me my first drumset. It was a tama swingstar. Now I'm playing with a dw collectors. 🤟
@Nether Gaming Find someone that wants space in their room more then drums lol
Dave, Damn dude! Fantastic playing ! Great track w/ keyboard groove! That is a brilliant kit for the $$$! Sounded so good, and you sold it so easily... Great kit for so many reasons, gotta have one myself! BIRCH... nothing quite like it...
20" bass-10-lug, L-arms, 10-lug snare, 5 pc... quite a pkg...
I have a second hand kit as my first acoustic set, I could barely find info about the brand. But thanks to you and some other youtubers I’ve managed to make it sound okay... I’m looking to upgrade just my snare as it sounds terrible but decent cymbals really make a kit that much better
You truly are an awsome drummer
David low key went off on the beat in this video
That kit sounds great! I have figured out that if you put good heads on about any drum and tune it right, it will sound decent :) Sounded great with those stock heads though!
that shit sounds nice and it is a huge upgrade when you compare this to any first kit. I'm impressed how you get hardware with the drums that's not bad for $400 for any beginner or person looking for a beater kit.
I am getting my first drums set today. It's a 5 piece full size adult Ashthrope set from Amazon at 400$. Watching all these drummers talking about cheap drums is very discouraging. Now I'm worried that they are going to sound like garbage. I'm broke, I cant afford to buy 1000$ drums. Sounds like tyhis is a very expensive hobby.
That drum set sounds so good for it’s price
Got a Yamaha
stage birch and now I feel silly cause just the shells are 700 ....that sounded great for 400 ,can't beat that deal with a stick lol never mind you can haha
*its
When I started drumming, I bought to of the same kits from Guitar Center so that I can have extra toms and two real kick drums. I put ebony two ply heads on and learned to tune drums properly. Two of each same size tom and I was able to make them sound like different sizes. Other people couldn’t believe I spent less than $600 for so many drums and they sounded that good. Knowledge is power and the power I had was learned how to do things right. Cymbals were a “try and see” experiment process. GC had a really good return return policy for being able to try things and swap back out for something else. (Don’t know if they still do that since I moved away from any GC.) 13 cymbals, 9 drums, and the kit sounded amazing. Learning to tune your drums is probably the most important aspect to making any kit sound great.
I have a mapex Bass wood kit. I took the wrapping of the shells stained cherry oak, with 7 layers of clear. It looks awesome and sound great. No one in my local scene has ever even questioned it's sound.
That was the dopest demo I’ve ever seen for a drum set.
Also, what’s the dimensions of that carpet???
If I had to guess I’d say 8’x4’, maybe 9’?
Way better than my first kit and cheaper! Awesome!
My man. Stellar playing on this one fantastic group and pocket.. also just goes to show you how much opportunity can do to a drum set as well as head selections
I remember my first kit was a 5pc Enforcer back in 2002. After that was a used Slingerland 70’s era set I bought from a friends dad. Eventually bought a Mapex Venus series that I still play and love it!
Pinstripe style heads/Birch drums...cant go wrong.
Can you try out the Sawtooth brand drums next? They cost a bit more than the eastar but they look good for being at the same price range as the eastars.
Sawtooth's 7pc Poplar. coming with a complete set of Zildjian S Cymbals Chromecast hardware.. Under $1200..LAWD!!
@@michaeleagle2 yup. The kit Vinny Appice demo kit he uses on his Facebook channel is brilliant.
They definitely sound great.
Sounds great to me. Def a great price and I think it would keep a beginner interested. It's like a great priced but decent beginner guitar that stays in tune with good action...it will keep a player wanting more and less concerned with bad sound, feel, quality, etc.
Cheaper than my first kit I bought in 87. Sounds better too.
I'm glad you left the stock heads on. I've seen similar videos where the person buys a cheap kit but then replaces them all with really good Evans heads. That doesn't really tell you much.
I thought you’d demo the cheap cymbals that came with?
Cool demo regardless
I'd play any kit if I had to. I'm a drummer!
This is the drum set I have now, and also my first one and I'm glad my parents made a good decision for Christmas a few years ago
Lot of people don't realize that what's really important is the heads, the cymbals, and the person playing the drums. I'd take this kit out on a bigger gig and have everybody asking what kind of custom kit I'm playing lol. Great Vid!
Try it unmiked and unmixed.
That would be how they sound.
i agree.
Video idea make a drum set out of random stuff and use mics and crazy mixing to make it sound good.
he did it with steven taylor twice lmao
@@litmeatballs4023 I know I meant that this drum set is basically trash cans that he made sound amazing with mics.
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Sooo…
Your sayin David is a sell out liar then?
Because he (the man in the room with them) says they sound good?
@@inka0268 I’m sayin he got sponsored
I would have loved for this to have been my first set. My first drum set was ordered from Sears and Roebuck. This would have been around 1969. These drums sounded great!
I just got this for xmas last month - my first drum set and I love it. The better I get at drumming the more it is like meditation, once I get into a groove - just feels soooooo good. Real drums are a world of difference; feeling compared to electronic kit, which was more about sound.