I already have mine lol.
Hey All,
Even though I'm sure this must have been done before, just for fun, I thought I'd ask you all what your thoughts are about a "price no object" kit. If you could afford what you REALLY wanted, what would you buy? I'm really mostly interested in brand new drum sets, what you would buy that is available from manufacturers, brand new, today. However, if you MUST bring in some dream vintage set, that won't invalidate the thread. I'm really curious about what you all would go for. I realize that it's possible to make the price for a drum set go through the roof just by selecting certain details. For example, since I consider myself, in essence, a DW person, I know you can, for example, add 10% to a drum set just by picking gold or nickel hardware instead of chrome. But I guess that's all part of your dream...if your dream is an ultra exotic shell with solid platinum lugs...who am I to judge
In any event, I'd really like to know what you'd get if you could place an order at your favorite music store, or custom drum builder. What would that kit be, what would it look like, and why would you pick that set? I've pretty much got my dream kit, my cherry DW Collectors set with 5 toms, but if I had the chance to go all out on another drum set, I'm thinking I'd do either a Yamaha Phoenix or a Sonor SQ2, both with all the bells and whistles. What about you guys?
Now, just a tiny bit less than an absolute drum newbie
DW Collectors Cherry kit, Ludwig Black Beauty Snare, DW SuperSolid Oak/Cherry Snare, DW Sabian Vault Edge Snare
I already have mine lol.
That's a hard choice. I would say a Ludwig classic Maple in the Zep configuration. Natural finish. Or a 9 piece DW collectors in birds eye maple with a tobacco burst hard satin finish. Black Nickel hardware. 3 up 2 down on the right, one down on the left, 2 kicks. I already have my dream ride. Sabian HH raw bell dry ride, but would love some hhx click hats and artisan crashes. Still deciding on Chinas and pedals.
Last edited by drummer5359; 07-16-2016 at 10:42 AM.
-Mike
"We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing."
"I wish that my playing reminded people of Steve Gadd. But they seem to confuse me with his little known cousin... E."
"Snare drums happen."
-Mike
"We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing."
"I wish that my playing reminded people of Steve Gadd. But they seem to confuse me with his little known cousin... E."
"Snare drums happen."
I don't regret buying it for a moment, it has been an amazing kit, no doubt about it.
I gig a good bit and it gets the call for almost every gig, it makes me smile every time.
I have a set of vintage Gretsch from the seventies, a set of early sixties Leedy, two Slingerland kits from the seventies, a modern era Slingerland kit, and a set of super clean 1965 Slingerlands that are very similar to my first good kit. It's a lot of really nice drum sets. The modern era and 1965 Slingerland kits are likely to get gigged in the near furure. But truth be told the DWs are my workhorse kit, they are worth every penny that I paid.
What is out there that I have played that I would buy now besides the DWs? I played a Craviotto solid shell walnut kit that sounded stunning. If I sold all of my kits I could likely afford them. Honestly, I'm very happy with what I have.
I think that the stained kits are beautiful, especially up close. I chose the broken glass finish because of how it reacts with the lights. I think that it looks great from the audience's perspective, and well, this is show business.
The OP has his dream kit, a few of us do. My advice to those of you who do not, is that if you can some day afford to get your dream kit, DO IT!
Last edited by drummer5359; 07-17-2016 at 01:41 PM.
-Mike
"We don't stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing."
"I wish that my playing reminded people of Steve Gadd. But they seem to confuse me with his little known cousin... E."
"Snare drums happen."
A 4 piece set with a Germanic surname on the reso. Probably 13, 16, 20, silver sparkle.
all the best...
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This one:
Gretsch USA & Zildjian(What Else Would I Ever Need ?)
If price were no object, I'd add a new snare to my little 4 piece Rogers, and use the rest of the money to hire a guy to cart my stuff to and from all my gigs. I'm getting sick of it.
In keeping with the spirit of the question, I'd find a terrific four piece kit that wasn't super heavy so I could leave my vintage Rogers at home. That's really all I aspire to these days.
Life's too short to play the same solo twice. Improvise!
If price were no object? Man. That's hard but I think it would be this:
1 ply of brass on the inside of every drum drum, 5 plys of maple on the outside. Never seen anything like it, but that's the sound I hear in my head if price is no object.
4 toms. 10, 12, 14, 16. 24 inch kick (with the brass, **** weight on a dream kit, you know?).
Don't really care what it looks like on the outside. Maybe just stained black with a shiny finish. Can't really say much about cymbals. I mean that in a specific way -- I care deeply, but once you get past a certain price in cymbals, there's nothing but taste to guide you. So all I can say is cymbals made of really high end metal with a high silver and tin content. Hand hammered. 22" ride with a medium weight and a good clear bell, 20" and 18" crashes, 16" hi-hats (but really heavy and stiff). Prolly have two snares, both 14" but tuned very differently. But again, maple over brass.
Last edited by Newlin; 07-16-2016 at 01:46 PM.
Already have mine lol. Maybe just a few better cymbals.
Mapex Saturn 6 pc
14x6 mapex stainless steel snare
Zildjian,Paiste, Meinl
DW5000 td4 double pedal
Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam
"I shall either find a way or make one"
Last edited by MDK; 07-17-2016 at 06:16 AM.
Ludwig Classic Maple 22x16,10x8,12x9,16x16
7" Moon Gel Practice Pad
Sabian HHX Legacy
Decide whether this is love for the craft or simply an ego thing
http://www.redskymary.com/ NOT MY BAND, JUST A GREAT LOCAL BAND WHO SHOULD BE SOOO MUCH BIGGER IMO
Now, just a tiny bit less than an absolute drum newbie
DW Collectors Cherry kit, Ludwig Black Beauty Snare, DW SuperSolid Oak/Cherry Snare, DW Sabian Vault Edge Snare
I would love to own a set of DW's.. not too sure about shell choice exactly what I would want as far as finish goes but I would say something around a 5 or 6 piece..
13x7 Snare
10", 12" Rack toms
14", 16" Floor toms
20" or 22" Kick
Anything bigger and well it just becomes a PITA to haul around (if I decided to move it) and I feel I could be able to make this comfortable in several configurations.
I've seen many of the exotics, finishply, lacquers etc. and really there are so many options out there that I wouldn't know where to begin.. But this all a dream right now until I can afford it
Price not the object?
Easy! Dixon Artisan maple/bubinga double 22"x20" kicks, 16", 14", 12", 10", 8" all rack toms in Vintage white. Custom Dixon flexrack. Artison 14"x6,5" hammered bronze snare.
Turkish cymbals.
Though if anyone gave me a Yamaha Oak custom, I'd accept that aswell...
System of Power
Difficult question.
I would love to own a set (preferably in a solid colour - red/yellow side of the colour spectrum rather than green/blue, probably in Amber lacquer), specialist custom chromed hardware - mounted toms 10/12/13/14, floor toms 14/16/18. 22 bass, preferably 16" depth.
The reality is I'll probably only ever need a 1 up, 1 down set and would crash and burn on a monster kit. But I would like the available options of playing 10 or 12 up - 14 down/12 up 16 down/13 up 16 or 18 down. Also all the available 2 up 1 down or 1 up 2 down combinations this would offer.
What would be essential is the bass to be no deeper than 16", larger toms no deeper than 10" to avoid height problems (although I'm 6ft tall I'm also lazy).
As this is a theoretical 'money no object' question I'd go for a small boutique custom builder, rather than something like DW or high end Gretsch/Ludwig/Pearl/Tama etc. Not that I believe the quality would be any better than the top lines of these manufacturers, just snobbery. In money is no object fantasies I don't care that they will be have no resale value.
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If money were no object, I would be happy to play the kit I already own. I would just like more time to play it.
Now that being said, I would love to have a small army of different kits
Sonor SQ2 in beech
Collectors exotic for maple (feathered okoume wood)
Pearl Masterworks in African mahogany
Yamaha RC for birch
Tama Star in walnut
And a Vistalite with a 26in kick
And throw in a Brady and a Craviatto kit for good measure.
Top it off with the cymbal room form Vic's in Chicago and call it done.
Next thing you know, I'll have a basement like Bish.
I am impressed with all the answers I've gotten to my question, guys. Lots of variety, which I expected, but it's maybe even more (variation, that is) than I expected. Keep 'em coming in, though.
Oddly, in the last few days, I've just come upon another high end kit, in part from what some of you have mentioned here. I think I'm going to have to modify my desired list of kits. In addition to my DW Collectors Cherry, I've mentioned in the past the desire for a Sonor SQ2 and a Yamaha Phoenix. I'm not quite sure how I managed, up until now, to have missed the spectacular Tama Star series, in particular, for me, the Tama Star Bubinga. Another amazingly costly drum set, these Tamas, but perhaps justly so. I'm guessing that my view of Tama as a 'lower end' manufacturer is the result of the bass drum that my former teacher let me borrow before I got my own drum kit. He had an old Tama bass that dug out from under a huge pile of stuff so I could have a bass to work with, and I recall that drum being in pretty bad shape, and it weight about a thousand pounds. I didn't know much about drums at all back then, but I know I wasn't impressed with that Tama. I think that must have been a very early, low end bass, which unfortunately left me with an incorrect impression of them. Just like, early on, I had some bizarre impression that Sonor was a budget manufacturer. Where did these strange ideas come from?
Does anyone here own any of the Tama Star kits, Bubinga, Walnut or Maple? While folks have noted that hearing a particular sound from a drum kit, unless it's live, means next to nothing, and everything to do to the production, the heads, the microphones, preamps and A/D converters, the mic placement, the post processing, etc., but the Tama Star videos I've seen have been nothing short of incredible, sound-wise.
Last edited by cabasner; 07-17-2016 at 09:00 PM.
Now, just a tiny bit less than an absolute drum newbie
DW Collectors Cherry kit, Ludwig Black Beauty Snare, DW SuperSolid Oak/Cherry Snare, DW Sabian Vault Edge Snare
Now, just a tiny bit less than an absolute drum newbie
DW Collectors Cherry kit, Ludwig Black Beauty Snare, DW SuperSolid Oak/Cherry Snare, DW Sabian Vault Edge Snare
Now, just a tiny bit less than an absolute drum newbie
DW Collectors Cherry kit, Ludwig Black Beauty Snare, DW SuperSolid Oak/Cherry Snare, DW Sabian Vault Edge Snare
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