Feels like the a is better for rock but the k is a better all around cymbal. Those ks can do anything, rock jazz latin, but for a metal show ill probably go for the a. Great demo!

Have maple, wish it was maple/mahogany

When picking shells for your DW Drums Collector's kit, always start with choosing the tone woods.

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I like both the 5A and the 7A. Every one's taste is different, but I like these sticks. They just feel right in my hands.

Surprisingly almost no difference

I tune my drums in thirds. Also I tune the batter head and the bottom heads the same exact pitch. By doing that technique the drum will have it’s greatest sustain and to control how sustain you want you go to the fairest lug and hit the dum and loosen that lug very slowly and that is you control your sustain. I always start with my biggest tom first, get that to as low I can get it. Then I use the medley of reveille. That’s the medley you hear at horse races with the horns playing it.

Ypu cant even tell which is which in a recording. Thisbis just marketing bs drummers buy into. Decades ago the difference between a wood snare and metal was wood was a fat sound and metal had more attack and less sustain. A good sound engineer today can make any shell sound good if wants to.

You say you hate metal snare drums? The most recorded snares are metal, also, I bet you couldn't pick out the drums in a blind test. Truly, as my other comment, head, bearing edge and tuning is what matters for the sound. Cool kit nonetheless 👍👍

If I had to choose, I'd choose mahogany. But, I do not believe the shell material matters. I believe that the sound comes from 3 things, heads, bearing edges, and tuning.

Can wrap a strip or two of gaff tape around the top and bottom of the hoop on the beater side, then slip the metal protector over it. It should fit snugly now and won't move without needing the screw.

None of them, cuz I can’t afford them so it doesn’t matter lol

Good sticks for the price for the drummer on a budget. Who wants to spend $45 on 3 pairs of drumsticks now? Every drummer i know complain about this and have switched to other brands like SPL or Guitar Center sticks. They are seconds from the bigger brands anyway. Im a gigging drummer and ive turned to sticks like these and save lots of $. Have you tried the Promark La specials yet?

Maple? Cherry? Cherry Mahogany? How do you know which set of shells is right for you? Before placing an order for a custom built DW Drums Collectors kit there are some important things to understand about the shells of the drums, including the materials used and the orientation of the wood grains. Let's do a deep dive on what the different options will mean to the sound of your drums. We'll also give some important tips on how to narrow down your shell search.

Great review. I use the sticks. Works for me.

Sometimes it's the smallest things. Thank you brother, I needed this video

As you get a bigger sized kit, it becomes more important to think about the pitch of the drums, and how to "spread out" the pitches you'll use. A common approach here is to choose some regular interval (some set of half steps) between each drum, and then tune those drums close to those pitches.

I use the funk ones pretty regularly.... just bought some rock ones today. I used to play vater recording Ones which are very similar and they even be what these are knocked off being.

Any reason on your 8” you flipped the tension on the bottom head to be lower than the batter opposite the rest? At those tunings with only about a half step between batter and reso heads those drums should be ringing for days. ?

I find that the shimmering sustain of all the good sounding A Custom Crash Cymbals to be buttery sounding & pleasant. It has a new and very old & classic Avedis Zildjian sound all in one cymbal.

Got it. Thanks

Let's hear what they sound like not Mic'd

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Yes, I'd say that initial crash & decay if my 14" k Custom Zildjian Fast Crash Cymbal is actually not that fast, it tends to linger for a bit. It's explosive at first Crash due to is raw bell....but the bell is small & the brighter tones quickly decay. The lathing work & hammer marks seem to be work here, smoothing out the decay

Your bass drum sound like machine gun fire. Lol. Congrats. Thanks, David-

TO DeumDrum. Does your 14" k Custom Fast Crash, fill quickly & decay quickly as well? I just bought one, with a brilliant finish, and it acts like that. For lack of a better word, it behaves like a 14" Splash/Crash...It sounds like it's weight...but not excessively glassy like a splash.

Out of those cymbals the K Custom Dark sounded best to my ears. That said I personally hate 16” crash cymbals. I am a rock drummer but I prefer thin dark crash cymbals 18” and larger.

In my experience a minor third works well beteeen the toms for bluesy and fumky music, major thirds are good for caribbean, latin and afro music and if you only have one mounted and a floor tom a quart will mostly do the job.

Tune Deez Nutz.

Other videos I have seen had the reso heads tuned a specific number of semitones below the batter head. Here there is no clear pattern to the relative tensions (or maybe the maths is too complex for me? 🤷‍♂️) What is the thinking behind these relationships?

Thanks for the video

That splash cymbal is giving me anxiety…

I have a 6,8,10, 12,13,16 and 18. I tune them fairly close to what you do. The 18 is at 52 hz. Massive!

Great video

Excellent vid! Someone that actually knows how to use a Tunebot. 😂 I have the same DW setup as you. I've experimented with a lot of tunings over the years and a recent tuning I've tried, and I am happy with is a Cmaj9 scale with the root C on the 16 tom and working your way up. C, E, G, B, D. The reason I chose C as the root was so the 12 inch tom at G matched the note of the shell. Naturally, there is room for adjusting the scale up or down a bit, but the 12 inch has a sweet spot in the F# to A range. So I built the scale around the 12 inch tom sweet spot. Also, it sounds great with either a max res tuning or min res. I'm using Evans UV2's on the batter side and Evans black resos on the reso side. Another experiment that I recently tried was to tension the heads with a Drumdial in the center of the head so that they were all at the same tension, 80 in this case. Then take the Tunebot and measure the lug frequencies of the top head, even them out, and then tune the reso head to the same frequency. This would be a max res scenario. It actually worked out quite well in terms of the intervals. Not any specific scale but it sounded fine. The goal here was to have all the toms FEEL the same. It actually worked.

I’m getting ready to buy my dream kit and was going to get a Pearl Reference One kit but am now thinking of getting a DW Collectors. Such a hard decision bc both are beautiful kits but if I’m going to spend 5-6k on a shell kit I need to make sure it’s absolutely what I want.

Good explanation! I tune my drums alternating m3 and M3 so that I get a P5 between the 10" and 14" and a P5 between the 12" and 16". That gives me basically the same pitches you are getting and my drums sound really good. That also gives me a P5 between my 12" and 1st snare. Multi strikes sound like chords.

Great video and explanation! I have a Ludwig Accent that was a rebuild project. My wife saw it out in the trash one day a while back! I grabbed it and it was in almost perfect shape. I took off the covers and painted it a flat blue color, ( think the Mapex Mars series) and it sounds so open now! The shells ring for days. I use close to the same tunebot settings, but I have 8,10,12,13,16” shells. My fundamental tunings from high to low are 165hz, 131hz, 104hz, 82hz and 65hz with Remo colortone batters. Still playing with the tunebot for the bass drum. I play with my snare tucked up under my 8 and 10” snare, so I do get a lot of snare buzz. I’ll have to try to flatten the 10” tone to see if that helps. Thanks!

I sometimes also like to tune to chords. Like a major chord, second inversion major chord, something like that. For me, having a bigger difference between the 14 and 12 than the 12 and 10 makes sense musically. (I dont have a 8 or a 16 sadly)

As you get a bigger sized kit, it becomes more important to think about the pitch of the drums, and how to "spread out" the pitches you'll use when you tune the toms. A common approach here is to choose some regular interval tuning (some set of half steps) between each drum, and then tune those drums close to those pitches. I'll show you one such approach, including the exact settings I'm using on a Tune-Bot. My Tune-Bot Studio is a great tool which allows me to recall this tuning easily whenever I replace the heads. Purchase Tube-Bot Studio here: amzn.to/3RJvqui *If you purchase through the above link, I'll make a tiny commission. That'll make me super happy, as I could buy more drums!*

I just recently learned about the flash splash. Seems like Peter Erskine was a partner in development. About to watch this video. Thanks for making great content!

Acd Unlimited also makes a badass driveshaft. They also make upgrade parts for different brands of pedals. All handmade in Austria. I deeply recommend it.

Thanks for the helpful video! Been wondering about how to fix these for years! They always fall out after a while and get hoovered up. Got a question, assuming the old pin has fallen out, could you just hammer the new pin all the way in with an ordinary hammer without using the punch tool? I've found a set of assorted size pins on amazon but just wondering if I also need the punch tool too.

Thanks for posting this video

You a g for this

Great channel. Amazon knock off $ 21.00 red ends and all, not kidding! I have a spare in my case for the past two years, never have a bit of lag or trouble. I hit Hard! Peace from Detroit MI.

Do you find you're left bass drum pedal lags and does move as smoothly as your right pedal? This Trick Drums Retrofit Driveshaft (model P1V6DW) truly is the ultimate upgrade for your DW 9000 and 5000 series double pedals. The 5000/9000 pedals come with what DW refers to as the Complete Linkage Drive Assembly with Red Ends. And while that does an adequate job, it's really no match for Trick's version of the driveshaft due to how it's manufactured.

How does one order a custom dw kit? I've looked on the website, but no clear link to inquire.

I bought this shaft for my Tama Speed ​​Cobra. The feeling of playing with this shaft is amazing, the original Tama shaft is loose.

I'm assuming this will work on my Speedcobra's right?!?