Mapex Saturn Evolution Maple drums performance with Agean Beast cymbals

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Mapex drums for a change! 🤩 I took the chance to cut a little acoustic sound demo video of this awesome Mapex Saturn Evolution Maple drumkit in gun metal grey (BPG) from footage I shot during a recent product introduction video shooting for drum-tec Groovedot / Groovebar drum triggers.
Although these triggers are mounted inside the shells, they don't kill the life & overtones of the drums, the kit still sounds fat, punchy & very much alive! I eventually set up some of my beautiful Agean Beast Series cymbals with the kit and WOWSERS, what a nice result 🥂
🥁 The kit setup in detail:
Mapex Evolution Maple drums:
22" bass drum
10" tom & 14" / 16" floor toms
14x5,5" Mapex Black Panther snare drum
Mapex hardware
Agean Cymbals Beast Series:
14" HiHat
16" & 18" Crashes
21" Ride
🎤 Recorded with Audio-Technica microphones exclusively.
👉 Feel free to subscribe to my channel ‪@digitaldrumming‬ and ask any questions in the comments section below!
#mapexdrums #ageancymbals #mapex #schlagzeug

[@pauldrumstimelessmusic1069]

Your micing and mixing is superb. I can listen to this all day. It sounds amazing!

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you very much Paul, that's great to hear! 😀

[@stevewade2535]

Ralf.... Your playing just goes from strength to strength my friend. Keep up the good work👏🏻👏🏻

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you so much Steve! :)

[@williamperri3437]

When my buddy bought the Armory Studio Ease Mapex kit in 2018 it was the only kit I ever heard in my life at under 800 bucks that could rival a Yamaha stage custom! I felt like I was playing a 2 or 3000 drum set! I am mediately thought to myself that Mapex has to rival Sonar as the worlds most underrated drums. Of course the Tama stage customs sound amazing too at around seven to $800 but no other companies drums look as good and sound as good as the semi pro kits by Mapex.

[@AP02112]

Mapex is the absolute greatest.

[@digitaldrumming]

But don't forget about Sonor...! 😁

[@AP02112]

@@digitaldrumming Hard pass.

[@justinreynolds3935]

Screw the drums what about this guys chops. Love it. He plays over the bar a lot. It's awesome

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you very much Justin, feel free to check out more sound demo & music performance videos on the channel if you like. Kind regards!

[@Wampe]

Awesome sound. What a beautiful and wonderful drumset, including the cymbals. ASMR, just the way I like it.

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you!

[@stanleyipkiss3806]

I didn’t know digitaldrumming was you from drum tec, but when I heard the playing I actually knew it was you before it showed your face, so you definitely have your own unique style. These drums sound incredible, mapex is seriously under rated. I want to be able to do fills like you, you should consider making another channel for teaching, I bet you would get all of the drum tec subscribers, all of these subscribers, and a lot more

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you Stan, that's great to hear! :) Yes I am actually running the drum-tec KZbin channel too & have been producing all the content for it for quite some years already. Kind regards!

[@setyackr0757]

I Love mapex drum

[@guilhem8052]

rockin' as always!🤘

[@ShellacScrubber]

Sometimes on youtube you get a wonderful sounding drum kit but you're irritated because the drummer isn't so great. Of course, that is NEVER the case when Ralf is at the helm ! What a delicious sounding kit(Particularly the snare) and what inspirational and endlessly creative playing from Ralf !!

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you so much! :)

[@telsonalves8060]

Mapex Top ! Agean Top ! Baterista Sensacional !!!!!!!

[@digitaldrumming]

Muchas graçias!

[@telsonalves8060]

Olá, poderias por favor dizer quais as medidas dos tambores ? Obrigado !!​@@digitaldrumming

[@danyheld9952]

Traum Sound das Ganze Kit ist stimmig im gesamten gesehen. Das erste Hängetom klingt mega. Auch sehr geil gespielt.

[@digitaldrumming]

Danke dir Dany! :)

[@jasonmusic9938]

nice technical playing

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you Jason, I hope that’s a good thing 😄 kind regards

[@andreasbreitwieser1449]

Very Nice! Der Beckensatz ist ja schon häufiger im Einsatz gewesen, besticht jedes Mal durch die Ausgewogenheit von Weichheit, Wärme und Brillanz, ebenso das Mapex Saturn Evu, mit deutlichem Attack und der richtigen Mischung von Ton und Sustain. Auf deinem Kanal kann man sehr deutlich hören, wie relativ Markennamen und -bewußtsein ist und wie weit man mit gutem Stimmen, guter Mikrofonierung und exzellenter Spieltechnik kommt, nämlich zu einem mega guten Schlagzeugsound !!

[@digitaldrumming]

Danke dir Andi! :)

[@miraclestudio9167]

Black Widow Snare is Amazing.

[@digitaldrumming]

You mean Black Panther....? 😀

[@WADS-rr9wy]

Glad it’s not only me with the remos on bottom but the evans g1 clears are great also for reso. I have an older Saturn Pro but I’m liking the new Tom mounting system. About to use the Gibraltar universal to try and mod over similar to the gretsch floating system. Great playing l!

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you!

[@mjm5081]

🏆

[@hamadbernes1980]

YOU ARE RIGHT,,, YOUR SOUND ITS ESPECTACULAR.... GREAT IDEA TO RECORD ACUSTIC SATURN SOUND ON YOUR MODULE,, THIS IS INSANE...

[@digitaldrumming]

Actually I am not recording anything to the TD-50X module :D the triggers inside the drum shells had been installed for another demo (drum-tec triggers) as I had pointed out in the info text and your other comment already. They are used to be able to layer sounds from the TD-50X module onto the acoustic sound if desired, but this is not shown in this purely acoustic drum sound demo.

[@GSA_Drums]

Inspiring 👌🏻😎🥁

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you, great to hear! :)

[@philippschadebrodt2411]

SOOOO GOOD :)))

[@digitaldrumming]

Danke Herr Schadebrodt! :)

[@Jay19848]

What heads are you using top and bottom??? Sounds amazing!!!

[@ss-gc9qq]

Insane performance as always. Are those triggers in place for swapping into mesh heads, or some other hybrid project?

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you so much! For this video I used some footage from my recent drum-tec Grrovebar / Groovedot drum trigger demo shooting, which you can find over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZTRaZV8fsd_oaM kzbin.info/www/bejne/laSuq4eAlJt_prc Kind regards!

[@GatoPaint]

hello sir! amazing demo ! got a question for u, how high is the ceiling of this room? also the lenght and whith would be nice to know too ♥ ♫♪

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you so much! Ceiling height is approximately 2,3 meters, so not too high at all since my home studio is down in the basement. Room size is close to 6 x 4 meters, also not really big unfortunately :) kind regards!

[@GatoPaint]

@@digitaldrumming I'd say those are perfect numbers for a home studio imo! great sounding room! these demos are a perfect mix of how good u play,how good is your room and how decent are the drum heads and cymbals ahaha , shells these days can sound very studio worth just by playing heads ahah , good job !

[@digitaldrumming]

@@GatoPaint Thank you very much, yeah I'm pretty happy with the sounds I'm getting from the room. KInd regards!

[@ryancox5097]

🔥🔥🔥

[@jeffhelmlinger7914]

Ralf , I just watched this video of the Saturn Evolution kit. To me it looks and sounds very high end to me. I know you have played so many brands. Honest thoughts what brand and models would you say it classes with. Have you ever played the other Evo kit birch walnut? I am interested in these kits

[@digitaldrumming]

Hey Jeff, honestly speaking I am not really familiar with other Mapex kits (yet) 😉 I am Sonor guy though, love my Vintage Series kit and also the others I've recently had at the studio for shooting (SQ1 & Prolite, demos coming up soon) have outstandingly great sound & quality. Kind regards!

[@jeffhelmlinger7914]

@@digitaldrumming I knew you were a Sonor guy. How was this Particular Mapex kit . Would you say it has a pretty hi end sound and construction? kit

[@digitaldrumming]

@@jeffhelmlinger7914 I didn't have it at the studio for too long actually, but yeah I think it sounds pretty awesome!

[@AlexCrockett]

Very nice demo sir. I'm thinking about buying these in the near future based on the quality to performance and compared to other leading brands these seem to be the most reasonable price for top shelf sound and newer drum tech. Anyways I was gonna ask you. I see you have your Roland drum brain next to you. Do you have your drum mics and triggers connected to the brain??

[@digitaldrumming]

Hey Alex, thank you! The TD-50 was only there for another demo introducing the drum-tec Groovebar & Groovedot triggers in an e/a hybrid setup: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqDSkKxqqLpjl8U Kind regards!

[@AlexCrockett]

@@digitaldrumming I gotcha ty for the reply. So if I have a natural kit such as yourself in this video what equipment/module will I need for live Triggers click track backing etc..?

[@venteach.6289]

Are you the guy from the Drumtec videos?

[@digitaldrumming]

Yes indeed! :-D

[@JeffreyMiddelveld]

That soooound

[@nscrider]

beindruckt mich immer wieder, wie tight und kreativ du spielst! hätte eine frage, so im verhältnis, wenn du die drums in deiner DAW dann abmixt, wieviel vom sound sind die akustik drums und wie viel mixt die trigger dazu. blöd formuliert von mir haha, aber vermutlich hört man zu 90 prozent die akustik drums und damit es einfach fetter und mächtiger klingt, die restlichen 10 prozent, Triggersignal und eben den Sound denn du dazu auch immer haben möchtest. Auf jeden Fall, sehr mördermäßig geiler drumsound!

[@digitaldrumming]

Lieber Jakob, ich danke dir! In dieser demo sind die Trigger gar nicht aktiv :) Ich hatte das Material während dem drum-tec shooting für die Groovedot/Groovebar trigger mitgeschnitten, um das Mapex kit noch einmal etwas umfangreicher "pur" zu zeigen. Die Demos mit aktiven Triggern findest du hier: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZTRaZV8fsd_oaM kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqDSkKxqqLpjl8U kzbin.info/www/bejne/laSuq4eAlJt_prc Liebe Grüße!

[@nscrider]

@@digitaldrumming danke für deine schnelle Antwort! :) ich hätt noch eine Frage, hab vor 5 Jahren ein Set bei euch gekauft, da sind die meshheads design serie oben. was mir persönlich viel zu viel rebound hat. wie ist das beim real feel meshhead, ist das ähnlich wie ein echtes Drumfell?

[@digitaldrumming]

@@nscrider Hi Jakob, ja die Real Feel Felle sind auf jeden Fall näher am Akustikfell durch die 3 Lagen mesh. Ich denke die gefallen dir auf jeden Fall besser, aber 100% Akustikfell geht mit mesh rein physikalisch ja nicht ganz, kommt aber näher ran als alle anderen meshs finde ich! Grüße, Ralf

[@nscrider]

@@digitaldrumming bei den meshheads von eurer design serie, bemerk ich nach ein paar Tagen intensiven spielen, wenn ich dann wieder aufs akustik Set wechsle, dass meine Hände leicht schmerzen. Interessanterweise genau meine rechte Hand (spiel open Hand) also mit der ich die Snare spiele unterhalb des Daumens befindet sich der "Schmerz." Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass man das mit Meshheads mit so wenig rebound wie möglich, das nicht so schnell der Fall ist. Kennst du das auch?` Lg Jakob

[@digitaldrumming]

@@nscrider Hi Jakob, bei Schmerzen solltest du mal eine Physio / Stocktechnik Revision einschieben, das kommt sicherlich nicht vom Rebound eines mesh Fells. Die meshs machen es dir allenfalls einfacher, mit dem rebound zu arbeiten (zB bei double strokes), was beim Wechseln auf Akustikfell dann aufgrund des geringeren rebounds im Vergleich erschwert wird (vor allem auf den Toms). Ich hatte & habe noch nie ergonomische Probleme an guten mesh pads gehabt. LG

[@MKunstmann]

Fuckintastic! 🍺🍺

[@digitaldrumming]

Thank you Marcelo! 😄

[@matildapurtill9388]

Hello👋 fab!! The secret to success > 'Promosm'.

[@digitaldrumming]

Thanks Matilda, what's Promosm? :-D