Ludwig Classic Maple 3-piece Shell Pack Review by Sweetwater

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Hey drummers, this time out we're trying out the Ludwig Classic Maple 3-piece shell pack with 22" kick drum. Classic Maple shells are constructed of 7-ply maple for its high sensitivity, wide tuning range, and fast attack. They are molded with Ludwig's Radio Frequency Shell Technology (RFST). This process utilizes a unique bonding system and adhesive to ensure all of the plies are evenly cured through the whole surface of the shells. And the 45-degree bearing edges are hand sanded for a flawless, flat surface that enhances your shell's sustain and harmonic content.
-- Nick D'Virgilio
#Sweetwater #LudwigClassic

[@thebayoudiaries8389]

I will be a Ludwig fan for life

[@kingmusic3617]

Same

[@PhilRounds]

I'm actually not in the market for new drums...I just tune in to check out Nick's drumming :p

[@evelioherrera2027]

4 drums. That's all Ringo needed. 4 drums. Amazing.

[@beatlejim64]

That's why he's a great drummer...swing...feel...great time...he doesn't overplay...Ringo plays what's needed....he plays the song!!!

[@rickenbacker40011]

I approve of his demo skills

[@kevintaylor5821]

rickenbacker40011 Hands down the best drum reviewer on KZbin.

[@FrancisL-5CES]

Exactly, I totally agree

[@goncalonunesfonseca6091]

I watch this only because the playing.

[@AH.111]

Damn Nick you played Ringo Starr's classic and iconic rhythm perfectly in the beginning and also included dynamics as well. You are extremely clever in your playing and i'm really glad i came across this channel. Looks like you've just earned yourself yet another subscriber!!!!!!!

[@nickcolantonio2880]

Hugh Mungus You're a rich man now Hugh, get that cancer treatment and then treat yourself. Papa Bless

[@jeffballou2940]

Great kit. Have played them all on and off, and still finding myself coming back to Ludwig. The feel, vibe, sound, quality, all good. Toured many a-time with Luds and never let me down.

[@filsolano5465]

I've always loved the sound quality of those Ludwig drums, hopefully when ever I'm ready to upgrade I will get my hands one one of those beauties. I must admit that I am a fan of your drumming Nick, you're an awesome drummer my man I love all your videos thank you

[@pbldrum]

When I watch Nick D, I have to chuckle cause he's so damn good!

[@truetube5190]

One of the nicest kits EVER made. Thanks sweetwater for another great review. You just earned yourself a customer.

[@StudentMarioGrandinetti]

+TrueTube he is the best person alive to demo your product i swear

[@truetube5190]

+2018 Student Mario Grandinetti Ikr! NDV is the best!

[@thebarcodestv]

Hey Nick I'm not even a drummer and love watching your videos. Such a great drummer... love your touch and feel...!

[@1111Paiste]

I really like your demos Nick!

[@stratman457]

beautiful drums and excellent demo! Love UR playing.

[@williamfotiou7577]

Love those Ludwig's! Nick, you really do them justice! 🥁🥁🥁

[@dwdrumz1]

Nick you are the best at drum set demo videos. What an awesome musician you are! Great skills on the drums and the demo videos are just one more thing that really help demonstrate the kits your playing. Great Job My Man!! DW

[@Merrillizer]

Those Ludwigs ALWAYS sound great. Excellence. Thanks!

[@DustyCowdog]

I love listening to you play, Nick! Nice video as usual.

[@jasonpaul3000]

Nick rocks with drums demos! Very informational! Sick chops too!

[@ThatMattGoodMusic]

Drummer in my band is on about buying one of these kits - this review is literally the best drum sound I've ever heard

[@luctoulouse]

awesome man. really love the way you play. thx for all your reviews.

[@hunterofliars9600]

-- Beautiful sound... Love the sound of the snare. :Ludwig is my favourite drum band

[@dickderry]

Awesome. Nick D is such a great player. Great feel.

[@dimosavov1230]

love that "how 'u doin everybody" on every video ! :D

[@blakegowan6623]

One of the finest players...and a fine Ambassador of the drum World....Nick D!

[@wb9034]

Nick, you get around those drums quick!! Nice playing

[@themadmaddrummer]

Your reviews are so Great Nick D !!! Love watching them ;)

[@mjm5081]

My God that kit sounds AMAZING!!!

[@pourthepuresofpoors6875]

The beginning was Come Together, right?

[@musicandgamesivan]

PourthePuresofPoors ™ Yes, it was

[@davidnozick8235]

Yes. Shout out to Ringo.

[@maluorno]

oh my god how did he do the song with only 2 toms?

[@brandonbustamante1248]

Yes it was ,Ha im replying 3 years later

[@aarushbanerjee690]

PourthePuresofPoors ™ yea and then Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin

[@roybeckerman9253]

Ludwig , still my pick these days, seeing the golden years of Slingerland and Rogers are gone. Great demo.. as always.

[@roybeckerman9253]

The perfect classic drum set....4 piece...that’s all the greats needed for years. There’s no point having a million drums and cymbals, where you can’t even see the drummer.

[@whitebaer3034]

Awesome Drumming

[@FrancisL-5CES]

Sweetwater please do more videos with this awesome drummer and reviewer. They are cinema style video with him. I'm preparing to buy this kit.

[@celticpridedrums]

I don't care what you're playing--just love listening and watching you--soooogood!!!

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

Love it, Come Together straight into Achilles Last Stand. Two very awesome songs recorded on two very awesome... Ludwig kits!

[@jamesnortonofficial1566]

How can you not love this kit👍

[@damnyankeefl]

good lord nick you make the drums so musical.

[@Brewkowsky07]

Those sound incredible!

[@FacadeDrummer22]

Nick is a really kickin' drummer, I love watching these demo videos!... Does the way Nick looks and speaks remind anybody else of Marc Summers? Lol

[@zackedge69]

Beautiful finish

[@adesulaimankramadibratasem4086]

awesome drumset, awesome drumming!

[@mr.l4461]

Dude you have a swinging groove I love it

[@roybeckerman9253]

Love this kit...no wonder Ludwig has been a top brand for many decades.

[@roybeckerman9253]

Ringo mainly had his rack tom attached to the bass drum, not to the cymbal stand. He used a tom stand sometimes , when he used two rack toms . Great demonstration and great drums.

[@calzaondrums]

This is how you tune a drum set! Dope

[@stephenlandry9061]

Love the sound of this kit. The DW sound to choked , these sound nice and open

[@dirtydave2691]

I have the same kit in Silver Sparkle with a 24" bass drum. Added a second 18" floor tom and all Evans heads. I bought them in 2015 and I love them. Recording, gigging they are great.

[@joestarr05]

What size is the rack tom? If you say 14X10 then it looks like you're going for a Bonham feel.

[@dirtydave2691]

@@joestarr05 14x12. And yes I love John Bonham.

[@joestarr05]

Noice.

[@stephenlandry9061]

Love This Kit !!

[@Motherloadrocks]

ludwig always sound great

[@davidjohnsen3245]

Just realized that he was playing Achilles Last Stand after Come Together in the intro, cool stuff!

[@roybeckerman9253]

Ludwig black and blue oyster pearl look very similar, depending on the lights. Both beautiful looking and sounding drums.

[@federicoines1848]

The Intro Come together nice

[@roybeckerman9253]

Still the King Of Drums...in spite of all the very expensive kits around today. Would love to hear the mahogany demonstration too.

[@troyfrost1980]

Nick you are one tough guy on them drums that was awesome .⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thanks TroyFrost / Troyster 😎 CoolRiffs 😎 Cool

[@johnhoudyshell7551]

I had these in white marine pearl. They cost more than other comparable drums but the sound, oh that sound !

[@motodrummer]

At 5:50 he wanted to say that claw hooks ARE rubber lined but they are not....LOL Good catch Nick.. Excellent review. Love to hear the Legacy maple in comparison

[@MyDyerMaker]

The claw hooks are rubber lined though. They're die-cast too.

[@AlanToon-fy4hg]

I had a Ludwig set like Ringo's in high school. It would be called the the Legacy Maple now. The shells were made much differently than now.

[@seattlemkh]

This is some of the most compelling advertising I've ever seen.

[@JusticeConstantine]

Nick's got chops.

[@Ireland299]

world class drums ..................... cool solo ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, fab ,,,,

[@scottmorosky4983]

Very Super Cool 😎!

[@rhythmista7707]

Just picked up a vintage b/o badge Ludwig in black cortex from 1977. All 6 ply maple shells..THE classic rock sound...Accept no other substitutes, unless of course, it's another Ludwig.... ;)

[@MyDyerMaker]

Playing a 6-ply Ludwig kit made sell my Tamas. I just bought a new Ludwig Classic Maple kit and I love it. It's bit louder than the 6-ply drums, maybe just a tad more resonance. The kick is phenomenal. They sound similar to me. The tones are warm and fat from each kit. I prefer them over my 3-ply drums.

[@willshaughnessy8515]

Ludwig is next on my list Now playing Gretsch RB from.1959 Is there a collete tom.mount option ..and what's the complete kit cost with snare ? Wrap options ?

[@ralphbenites1819]

Got my 1967 down beat black oyster drum kit but the bass drum is a club date 22” coun’t fine a catalog or a picture of it.if it’s original to the kit. I’ve had it since 1976 . Has a rail consolette .

[@cricketbat09]

What a kit.

[@MrNgakakguling2]

my dream kit,, omg

[@SKARKIBANEZ]

Ha ha that smiley face of Nick"s :P

[@hoganbentle3582]

What Meinl Cymbals are those? I love the Ride especially!

[@garygnip4480]

I just purchased this kit and wonder why Ludwig did not use a 9x12 Tom. The 9x13 just seems like a lot of weight on the cymbal stand and the ball attachment housing is not very sturdy to hold the 9x13 current tom that comes with it.

[@nicolasmantani1812]

You are the first drummer I see that he is commissioned to show drums and being a top musician you really shows the instrument and its characteristics and does not show yourself. You are selling the product, no selling yourself. Thank you. It's boring to see drummers who sell themselves in each video and do not let appreciate the instrument, and those abound, are the vast majority. Why you don't have teaching videos?

[@SaunaartcreativityBlogspot135]

wow, it's so vintage =D

[@andieen.7426]

if nick says "can fit in any style of music", on any kit, i would definitely believe it 100%.

[@CommanderNewton]

very cool drums, gonna buy them when I win lotto.

[@roybeckerman9253]

Nick usually has a very highly tuned snare. Ringo mainly used a wood Ludwig Jazz Festival snare, only occasionally metal. Ludwig started in 1909...the year Gene Krupa was born.

[@stevenbatley8666]

The Ludwig sound, bu the way the drummer is not to bad!👌

[@zivmoerman1844]

Ringo used the legacy mahgony shell not the classic maple shell. Only the hollywood kit in 68 was a cllassic maple shell

[@djfteddept1994]

Can my church please get this demo set for review & for the choir???. Bless yourself by helping others this year.

[@roybeckerman9253]

Gee these look and sound great. No wonder Ringo switched from his old Premiers to Ludwig.

[@Jellybeantiger]

Ludwig class.

[@rhythmista7707]

Under stage lights, the wrap looks like a blue oyster pearl..

[@drumcatfairy77]

My Pearl EXR custom kit has the same finish,but Pearl calls it Strata Black...

[@rhythmista7707]

drumcatfairy77 Strata and Oyster Pearl are two very different finishes, however, i see what you mean, because i'm familiar with Pearl's version of Strata, and they can be similar looking..

[@roybeckerman9253]

Ringo has continued to use Ludwig, since 1963. So many other drummers have changed, maybe due to endorsement deals.

[@Amp1771]

I like the new lighting but for example in this vid you can't see the kit better than in previous vids

[@EyMeng]

the only kick drum sound that should exist

[@marciefree]

Nick is this the black pearl mahogany kit Ludwig made for you?

[@Wckmt7ok]

Your groova is gettin' tight, bro:) Nice-

[@roybeckerman9253]

Not much between Ludwig and Gretsch, but I prefer the Ludwig snares. Would like to have seen a matching wood snare for this...

[@christopherpederson1021]

Does this bass drum tune up high well?

[@krankiekat]

What are stock or default heads are shipped on new Ludwig Legacy and or classic maple kits from the Monroe factory assuming you did special order or specifically choose? if they are Ludwig weather master or they heavy or medium 1 or 2 ply clear or coated for the toms?

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Frank Lima I had a used kit, but it was barely used when I got it. Iirc, it had coated Remo single ply heads. They really sang. I was blown away by how loud they were, compared to both my old Yamaha & Pearl kits. Not loud in a bad way. I was just a bit intimidated at 1st. Some moon gels settled things down a bit.

[@roybeckerman9253]

I remember in the 60s, most drummers owned one drum set and just one snare. These days, most drummers own several of each....how times have changed.

[@KGTv123]

I bought this kit and coupled it with a black beauty 6.5 x 14 snare. it's a great kit, but the poor hardware was a deal breaker for me. the lugs consistently came loose on the rack Tom as well as the snare. not long into my having the kid the snare throw off broke. I found that this is a common problem with the ludwig throw offs. so I upgraded to a p95 throw off (can't remember the number at this point) and about 2 weeks after installing that, very small screws in that throw off came loose. I did further research and it seems like it's a rather common complaint with ludwig drums. Super bummer because I actually really liked the kit and snare

[@HadEnough745]

I bought this same kit back in 2013 and have never had a problem with anything coming loose. I have 10,12,16 and 22x16 kick. Everything is solid as a rock except for the P-85 snare throw-off. It sticks sometimes but everything else is fine and I hit them pretty hard.

[@MyDyerMaker]

I've played lots of Ludwigs and other brands. Vibrations make screws back out, especially if not very tight. If it's a consistent problem put some light to medium grade silicone thread sealant on the screws

[@sebastianramirez3325]

That's my dream drum kit right there, and I'm saving up for it but which version should I end up going for. A 24 kick or 22? Would appreciate the help.

[@nickcolantonio2880]

Sebastian Ramirez Did you get the kit? If not, the Ludwig bass drums are killer, and I think you should base it around your personal playing style and the genre (s) of music you'll be playing most. A 24 is loud, boomy, and roomy. A 22 is precise and punchy. I have a 22 now, I play DW, and I find it leaving something to be desired. Buying a Classic Maple soon, and I'll be trying a 24! Happy hunting!

[@thebayoudiaries8389]

Nick Colantonio how do you like it?

[@DannyGadish]

24

[@MyDyerMaker]

You probably already have your kit, but after playing a 14x24-in Ludwig kick for the last few years I can't see going back to a 22-in. I'm afraid to try a 26-in. Ludwig's kicks are incredible.

[@ickysticky3672]

D'yer Maker the 24 is perfect. 26 is a lot of fun to play, especially when it’s tuned Bonham-style. Can’t exactly gig it, though. And it’s not travel-friendly.

[@kosycat1]

Thats how you play some drums

[@roybeckerman9253]

Killer snare...killer drums.

[@ianngoh842]

this video convinced me to get a sand hats lol

[@roybeckerman7843]

Great drums…LUDWIG still on top.

[@waynerichards8606]

Our the lugs the same as the one in the 60s because I have and old Ludwig drum set and one of them broke

[@roybeckerman9253]

No wonder Ringo loved Ludwig. Buddy Rich ( the greatest drummer of all time ), used Ludwig , as much as he used Slingerland.

[@roybeckerman9253]

Brilliant looking and sounding kit, but really dislike the toms being attached to the cymbal stands. I hope they come with the tom, attached to the bass drum. It gives far more flexibility.

[@HadEnough745]

+Roy Beckerman I bought this kit a couple of years ago and I switched from the tom mount on the bass drum to the mounts on the cymbal stands. You can maneuver the toms a lot better and I think the virgin bass drum looks better.

[@ejej6934]

Who came up with the "The Beatles" logo for the drum, and what year did it first appear?

[@ejej6934]

Never mind. I looked it up. The Beatles iconic "drop T" logo was designed by the owner of Drum City - where Ringo got his first Ludwig set - and painted by a sign painter named Eddie Stokes. The set was priced at £238. They paid Stokes £5 to paint "The Beatles" on the head. The drum kit was sold at auction in 2015 for $2.1 million.

[@McRonson]

Watch the drummer in Extreme doing his stuff at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on a kit like this; he made it sound like it had two bass drums and a dozen toms! Depends on the drummer, of course...

[@joaquindecocker3220]

great drummer !

[@TheViva73]

Is classic maple the same as super classic drums?