A master cymbal maker who was trained and conditioned under the tutelage of Armand Zildjian himself. 🙏🏼

Title. Just upgraded to the DW9000 from an old PDP double kick (no hate, that thing is a trooper) and the difference is STAGGERING. I taught myself heel-toe on the PDP and have successfully got up to 280bpm (not well or for long) on it, but... the DW pedal just feels like an entirely different experience. I used the out of the box settings and still have a bunch of tweaking to do and it's already light years better than my old pedal. It's on "sale" (?) online right now and guitar center honors the online price, so if you've been trying to decide... now is a good time to do it. Try it first though, as with all pedals.

I have been looking for a better double kick for quite some time. Does anyone know if the DW 5000 is worth it. The 2nd slide is what I have right now, they were a gift. I think they were from Amazon

May 4, 2025 Praise Break

Hey everyone,

My band are looking for a drummer.

We are influenced by bands such as The Smiths, Durutti Column, early New Order, The Drums, early The Strokes, PJ Harvey, early Morrissey, The La's, The Fall, Iceage, The Cure and other bands.

The project consists of myself (vocalist), guitarist and a bassist at the moment. We've recorded some rough scratch demos of songs that we can send you. We all have experience writing songs and playing in bands. We are committed to having fun writing songs, recording and playing shows.

We have been rehearsing weekly in Deptford so far.

Get in touch if you're interested. If you can’t direct message me, leave a comment and I will message you. Please have recordings or a video of you playing. Nothing can be done if you don’t have anything you can send.

Tama Granstar Customs bringing in the low frequencies and the DW Cast Bronze Snare Drums for the verses and choruses. T-Cymbals/Rech Cymbals all around with a pair of Remo SPOXE HiHats.

My ears have heard too much and can't tell it apart now. I'm aiming for a G4 and it's a B something but my tuner keeps jumping from way too high to way too low and I can't tell what it's really at.

5x14 snare.

Im so in love with this setup, it's compact, ergonomic yet a lot of things to hit. Gonna have a lot of fun gigging with this kit🤙

Side snare is so my second snare doesn't dust and actually gets used. Yet to decide if i'll use it while gigging.

I’ve been trying to decide on upgrades from my current setup. I’ve gotten help from here narrowing my snare options, but I need a little help with cymbals.
As of now, my current cymbal setup is this:

14” Sabian B8 Hi Hats
16” Paiste PST8 Rock Crash
16” Sabian AA Metal-X Crash (with a little crack)
20” Sabian B8 Ride

I will be changing the Hi Hats to 14” Zildjian A New Beats from the 90’s, and most likely the ride as well, to a 20” Sabian XSR Medium ride. I think the Paiste crash will Stay and I’ll be selling the rest (hi hats, ride and AA crash)
I definitely want a bigger crash, so I’m in between

Zildjian S 18” Medium Thin Crash ($142) [not really sure, but the option is there]
Dream Contact 18” Crash Ride ($178)
Sabian Xs20 18” Medium Thin Crash (≈$110-$130)

I know cymbals are very subjective, and I will try to play before buying any cymbal, but I wanted to know what would sound good with the setup and give me the most bang for my buck.
For reference, I play Grunge/Punk, and stuff like that.
Any help is appreciated.

Hello,

Has anyone played one of these? I can’t find a video of this kit online. It’s 20x10, 10x5 and 14x8. Really cool compact set up. I really like that the bass drum is 20. I am very curious how the bass drum sounds particularly. Thanks!!

I got 2 MB20 18 rock chinas
For 40 bucks they had some cracks but I fixed them

I recently made a blind test for hi-hats. Now it's time for snare drums! Can you identify which snare is the Ludwig Supraphonic? https://youtu.be/nD0SJyr7A_w?si=qXT0juN20HbptSWh

There are 5 snare drums and they all have the same drum heads and tuning. Tuning was verified twice with tunebot and DAW (finding fundamental frequency). Any difference you hear is the result of different shell material and size.

Snare mic is SM57 top and bottom. Microphone is in the same angle and distance to top/bottom drum heads.

Which snare do you think is the most recorded ever? It's only 5 snare drums. You can do it!

All the snare drums will be revealed on Oct 17th. The link will be in the description and pinned comment.

I've always loved this song, with its constant changing drum part and time signature changes I thought it would be a fun challenge to transcribe. I'd love to discuss the song and get some feedback on my first attempt at a drum transcription. Any thoughts on clearer notation, mistakes I made, and opinions on the song are welcome!

Rate my practice kit. I love it so far!

Hi all!

Hoping for a little advice, not technically my first kit, but coming from a 2nd-hand 22" Mapex Tornado I bought for really cheap that really wasn't well looked after before.

I've been doing more local light gigs (pop, funk, rnb) as well as local pit gigs for musical theatre and after upgrading the hardware, cymbals and heads from the old kit, I've been wanting to finally get something a bit better for shells.

Have been looking for something in the 20" size and came across this one - I know the old Premier kits has a decent reputation on this sub (plus I think the colour is awesome). Was wondering if this would be good for the uses above and also if it's reasonable for the price?

I've also been considering a Gretsch Catalina that I've found for roughly the same amount.

is there any other kits that would fall in the this budget used, that might be better to look out for?

Thanks for any advice! I've done my fair share of used shopping for cymbals and hardware by now, but when it comes to shells it's still really new for me :)