Mapex Drums Discussion

[05WideGuy]

Thanks Bish, Here's a better shot of the whole set.

[Bish]

I think your camera takes nice clear shots. Really shows the wood grain and brilliant colors.


Drool factor of 10.

[Riouel]

very nice kit 05WideGuy
beautiful color

[Lesizmor]

A couple pics of my kit. M-Birch 7pc with XS20's

Nice kit 05! Love the M Birch! I also have a couple XS20s in my set up!
Great kit dude!


-Les

[yohin]

Nice kit 05WideGuy!

[SadikOne1]

Awseom kit! Wideguy! loving that red finish!

[Dustin]

Sweet looking kit Wideguy!!!

[itchie]

smooth kit WG

[BigKrup444]

Nice looking kit 05 I'm thinkin about pickin up a 6 piece M Birch. It's scratch n dent, but i think they are just trying to move stock, they have like 5 finishes in 3 configs. But i can get it for around $460 shipped. so im thinking about getting it to put at my buddy's where we jam

[late8]

Wow....what a beauty! Mapex makes nice stuff!

[The Chazbo]

Beautiful kit wideguy!


I got to play on a set of Pro Ms yesterday...absolutely gorgeous The only thing is I was playing the house drummers set at a club, and he was really tall, so I had to stretch a bit and get used to the height of the drums, but it was only for a couple of songs. I loved the sound of the bass and toms, and the guy used a Pearl Free Floating snare...one of the deepest I've seen (though didn't tcatch the actual size). T

The only question I have is about his tom heads. They were Remo Empreror's, but they wern't clear or coated. They felt completely smooth and appeared to be some kind of white plastic. I will admit, they sounded really nice, but I'm curious as to what type of heads these were if anyone could help me out?

[Lesizmor]

Those were Remo Emporer smooth whites. They are like clear emps but are made from a white pigmented mylar. They have that great bite and nice low end. Next best thing to Aquarian respose 2s (IMO)


-Les

[The Chazbo]

Aaah, thanks Les...been wondering what they were

[liza1991]

Does anyone know the bearing edge angle on the pro M snares? Apparently a steeper angle leads to a higher overall pitch, is this true?
I got new snare heads the other day and I decided to opt for a slightly lower sound, so I got a coated powerstroke on the top and an evans genera for the reso. Now it sounds way too low for me, and I'm having issues tuning it higher. Is it the heads or do I need to spend another afternoon tweaking the right sound out of it?

[Lesizmor]

Does anyone know the bearing edge angle on the pro M snares? Apparently a steeper angle leads to a higher overall pitch, is this true?
I got new snare heads the other day and I decided to opt for a slightly lower sound, so I got a coated powerstroke on the top and an evans genera for the reso. Now it sounds way too low for me, and I'm having issues tuning it higher. Is it the heads or do I need to spend another afternoon tweaking the right sound out of it?

45deg.


-Les

[liza1991]

45deg.


-Les

Thank you sir!

[mkennedy]

Does anyone know the bearing edge angle on the pro M snares? Apparently a steeper angle leads to a higher overall pitch, is this true?
I got new snare heads the other day and I decided to opt for a slightly lower sound, so I got a coated powerstroke on the top and an evans genera for the reso. Now it sounds way too low for me, and I'm having issues tuning it higher. Is it the heads or do I need to spend another afternoon tweaking the right sound out of it?

I think you're on the mark with a Powerstroke or a Genera ON TOP but I don't think you want to use those on the bottom or your snare. Not very conducive to a authentic snare sound. For the bottom I recommend a 'snareside' head. Any decent music store will set you up with an Remo ambassador snare side or an Evans 300 hazy. That combined with the powerstroke on top will give you a nice clean snare sound. Enjoy!

[RickyT]

Hello everyone,
first time poster here. I really love the finish on those Orion series. Is there a more beautiful looking kit made?
I personally drive a custom Mapex Saturn Series kit in Black Cherry Sparkle.
It doesn't get much better then this.
8x7
10x8
12x6
16x16
13x6 Black Panther maple snare
12x9 custom mapex saturn Black cherry side snare
Complete with monster virgin 24x20 bass drum.

Later- RickyT

[itchie]

hello rick welcome to drumchat

nice kit

[RickyT]

Thanks Ichie!
I will post some pics of my kit soon.

[liza1991]

I think you're on the mark with a Powerstroke or a Genera ON TOP but I don't think you want to use those on the bottom or your snare. Not very conducive to a authentic snare sound. For the bottom I recommend a 'snareside' head. Any decent music store will set you up with an Remo ambassador snare side or an Evans 300 hazy. That combined with the powerstroke on top will give you a nice clean snare sound. Enjoy!

That might be a solution; I finally got a decent sound out of it, but the snares are dead. I've adjusted them in a myriad of different ways and they won't produce more then a short buzz, if any thing at all. I think I'll go get a new bottom head and see if that works, thank you my friend.

[itchie]

hey liza, just what sound are you after?

a short gated sound....?

[liza1991]

hey liza, just what sound are you after?

a short gated sound....?

i want to get a good crack out of it, but not something so high pitched and ringy.

[pastor_bob]

Hello everyone,
first time poster here. I really love the finish on those Orion series. Is there a more beautiful looking kit made?
I personally drive a custom Mapex Saturn Series kit in Black Cherry Sparkle.
It doesn't get much better then this.
8x7
10x8
12x6
16x16
13x6 Black Panther maple snare
12x9 custom mapex saturn Black cherry side snare
Complete with monster virgin 24x20 bass drum.

Later- RickyT

Welcome to Drum Chat Ricky T! I can't wait to get a look at that kit!

[itchie]

i want to get a good crack out of it, but not something so high pitched and ringy.

yerp ps3 is the go...