A Tour of the Aquarian Factory: Exclusively for BeatIt
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Aquarian's National Sales Manager, Jamie Harris, gives en.beatit.tv/ drummers' website a tour of the company's factory in Anaheim, CA.
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Aquarian have two factories in California and this is a tour of the one located in Anaheim. The facility is used as a warehouse for drum heads and merch, a shipping center and it houses the bookkeeping department. There, Aquarian also store the drum gear necessary for events such as NAMM, Musikmesse, etc. Another activity which takes place at Anaheim is preparing custom heads for Aquarian artists and dealers plus putting on inside and outside dots, dampening rings, tape, stamping, doing OEM for drum companies (Craviotto, Trick Drums, Solo, TJS), making silkscreen heads as well as electronic heads (made for Alternate Mode - the manufacturer of KAT instruments), etc. The rubber used for the latter drum heads is the same as in the Super-Pad. Spray painting happens at the other factory (Aquarian offer four different kinds of coating).
Roy Burns and Ron Marquez are Aquarian owners. Jamie says it’s a great place to work because there isn’t a person there who hasn’t worked at Aquarian shorter than 20 years, and it’s a family. Also everybody there is a drummer. “I’m a drummer [says Harris], the Artist Relations guys are drummers. I still play drums. I’m gonna go home today and I’m gonna play. We’re all drummers here!”
Aquarian don’t outsource anything as far as the production process is concerned. Customized orders are made at Anaheim. An Aquarian Texture Coated (Remo Ambassador’s counterpart) ma be fitted with a Studio X tape, or a dot, which will change head model. The company also offers heads with a coated dot.
A lot of people don’t realize that Aquarian don’t only manufacture drum heads. The company also makes black graphite drum sticks, which are very durable and virtually impossible to be broken while playing drums. Those sticks also come with grips, which helps drummers with a carpal tunnel problem or tendonitis. A pair of those is added to Aquarian practice pads.
Other Aquarian product include: the Studio Ring (head muffler), the Simple Spring (a spring placed on the cymbal stand tilter), and Drum Kit Tools including: reusable dots to strengthen or fatten a head, T-Tabs (small reusable plastic patches to put centrally on the drum head and modify the sound with), the DuraDOT reusable patch (fattens the sound of a snare drum head), the Kick Patch (helps to continue playing when stuck to a ripped kick drum head).
Join Jamie Harris and en.beatit.tv on a tour of the Aquarian factory in Anaheim, CA!
“Here in this factory... we just have... a warehouse.”
I worked at Aquarian for about 23 years and this is just a shipping warehouse but 2 hrs away we have the warehouse with all the machines... these guys from the UK did a surprise visit in Anaheim and wanted to video, I said ok. If they did a surprise visit to our other factory "which was way to far for them to go cuz they were ready to fly home from namm show that year" we would of let them but I work at this warehouse in Anaheim..
como hace los parches acuarian
11.08. " We're world wide " I've been trying to order heads and rings to UK. Your website only accepts US addresses. How do I order to the UK? Thank you.
@@user-zt1er1uj6i - Is there a pretty big demand for Aquarian heads there?
I'd like to see if there would be a way to assist on behalf of Aquarian in maybe a "non official" way.
If they're finishing heads there, like adding dots and studio x rings, they're still in manufacturing to an extent.
the best kick head I have ever heard
Absolutely
small buisness? I love Aquarian heads however they are by far the most expensive heads..Can get an Evans prepack for 34 bucks, Aquarian prepacks are 60 bucks ! Thats insane for the averade drummer, I would love to use your heads for all my gigs but just cant afford them
What?? Where I am from, they are by far the cheapest. I love aquarian the most as well, but here an Evan's 14" G1 will be around $29, but an aquarian texture coated is only around $14.
dzarren I think he’s referring to the U.S. because Aquarian’s are pretty expensive in comparison to Remos and Evans as well. I’ve tried them a few times and I like them, but it isn’t worth switching from Remo with the big price gap
They’re way cheaper than Evans and Remo now.
It's because they only have one wholesale price. They won't give places like Guitar Center a better wholesale price than Guitar Center, where Remo might and Evans does.
When I was in retail that was nice because there was a level playing field profit wise for the mom and pop shop where I worked. We bought at the same rate as the big box places.
I miss dealing with Jamie!!
They should really clean up that place. Make it look nicer. I would never buy from a place looking like that mess. Then need to make it more presentable.🤔
Dump. 😂