Hey drummers

vigilante398 said:
I have absolutely no real reason to dislike the Supralite, but I have an internal bias (I will again emphasize, for no actual reason) against steel snares. There are plenty of great steel snares out there, one of my friends uses the Chad Smith signature steel snare from Pearl and it sounds great, but my brain decided it won't do steel snares.
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I agree, they were/are a sign of a low budget drum, but the Ludwig has been well received since it came out. I would prefer my DW Performance maple, but something like that is way out of budget
 
falco_femoralis said:
I agree, they were/are a sign of a low budget drum, but the Ludwig has been well received since it came out. I would prefer my DW Performance maple, but something like that is way out of budget
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Yeah performance maple is the sort of thing anyone would prefer over just about anything. I see some used ones in rough shape for $300 or so, but at that point the Supralite may still be a more reliable bet.
 
I listened to some demos of the supralite and hated it. it was hard to find good demos of the mapex. It seems like they've reused the mpx model name or it's been around for 15+ years. The Yamaha stage custom sounded ok, better with some dampening in the couple of videos I saw. I'd consider getting a Yamaha tour custom instead if I can hold out and save up a bit more. We'll see how antsy I get
 
Harry Klippton said:
I listened to some demos of the supralite and hated it. it was hard to find good demos of the mapex. It seems like they've reused the mpx model name or it's been around for 15+ years. The Yamaha stage custom sounded ok, better with some dampening in the couple of videos I saw. I'd consider getting a Yamaha tour custom instead if I can hold out and save up a bit more. We'll see how antsy I get
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This is going to sound weird, but I've never listened to demos of drums as a decision making step. My first two kits were purchased by my parents and were cheap as cheap can be, then my third and fourth sets were just what I could afford as a poor college student. My fifth set was a Yamaha Stage Custom, which I went for firstly because I found a good deal, but also because my band had recorded in a studio that had one as their house kit and I liked the sound. My sixth and current kit is a DW Design Series acrylic set, and I got it because I knew I wanted DW as a brand and I had both heard and played a few acrylic kits in stores and knew that was the sound I wanted.

So I'm not saying listening to demos is bad, but the sound of demos is going to depend heavily on tuning, dampening, mic choice, mic placement, EQ/post-processing, etc. There's no standard tuning, there's no standard dampening, and there's no "direct" recording, so acoustic drums are always going to be weird to demo and it's difficult to get an objective example of what they will sound like.
 
You can change the sound of a drum dramatically with different heads and snare wires. I wouldn't bother with a Tour Custom. The kits are nice but the snare isn't really anything special. I'd honestly get a cheaper drum and put some nice Puresound wires on it and good USA Remo heads. Kinda like upgrading the pickups and doing a fret polish on a cheap guitar
 
I'm not usually a "listen to demos" person about anything but since this is not at all an instrument I'm familiar with, I figured I'd give it a try.

I bought my kit because it came up for sale locally, was a price I could manage paying, and because it was green. Not for any other logical reasons. It seems fine to me. It's a Pearl MLX kit. Before that I had an older Alesis w kit

The Yamaha stage custom is cheap and will probably tune a lot better than my warped steel snare.
 
vigilante398 said:
TEAM EVANS 4 LYFE

Seriously though, the Evans Genera HD Dry is my secret weapons on snares.
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I can't stand the HD Dry! I've tried it, but I like my snare open, sensitive and ringy. Maybe I'll put some gaff tape on but much of my tone is determined by tuning. I use an Ambassador X
 
falco_femoralis said:
I can't stand the HD Dry! I've tried it, but I like my snare open, sensitive and ringy. Maybe I'll put some gaff tape on but much of my tone is determined by tuning. I use an Ambassador X
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Different strokes for different folks ;) and this is exactly why it's hard to get an objective demo of drum stuff. You're only going to hear the drum the way the demoer wants you to hear it, which may be different than the way you're going to want to use it.
 
To respond to the OP:

Nah. The sound of the kick doesn't matter. If you get rid of the front head, you'd be getting rid of the single best spot for neat artwork.
 
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