Pearl Music City Custom Reference Pure Shell Pack Review by Sweetwater

Sweetwater's Nick D'Virgilio presents the Pearl Music City Custom Reference Pure shell pack. Pearl voiced every drum in its lightweight Reference Pure shell pack with a custom blend of maple and African mahogany plies for optimal tone, crack, and sustain at every size, with custom bearing edges in each size class to provide just the right amount of bite and volume. The result is a pre-mixed sound that will inspire creativity every time you sit down to play. Low-contact STL swivel tube lugs and 1.6mm Fat Tone Hoops bring out the full resonance of the drums and give the Reference Pure series a sleek, modern look, complemented by a premium Pearl wrap that'll turn heads onstage or in the studio.
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[@anguse2068]

I‘m a fan the old school 12, 13, 16 tom setup. 👍

[@sjang816]

there's nothing like seeing there's a new video review with nick. i really look forward to them. my favorite drummer without a doubt!

[@Jackson-DeGrappo]

nycjin816 agreed!

[@drumazinggreek729]

The kit sounds very percussive!

[@davidcurtis4478]

Beautiful looking kit! David Curtis Drumming

[@krak2121]

Nick, awesome drumming as always. Could you do a video on the new Pearl Masters Maple Complete?

[@roybeckerman9253]

Beautiful looking colour...the snare is the best and most expensive drum in the kit.

[@mjm5081]

Those toms...WOW!!!

[@jamesfranklin8269]

I would love to play the music City custom I love the 24x16 vergin kick 😀

[@HaloAdmiral]

I won’t lie, I’ve slept on Pearl for quite sometime. I’ve played them and gigs and open mics. My professor had a friend who was a Pearl rep. He had a Masters kit, EXL in this White Oyster looking wrap in bop sizes (10/12/14/18). And a vision birch (12/14/18) as well. Overall good quality drums.

[@JoeNocella]

I don't know how much of a difference adding some birch wood will make on the tom sound. I would love to hear the different woods next to eachother the same heads, mics, etc..

[@jamesfranklin7450]

I love the old stand by 24x16" vergin Bass drums on any of Pearl's pro drumsets I don't like the 25x14 it's to shallow I'm use to the old cewin Vega sub sound with out micing it ive always play my Bass drums open with out a pillow pearl the best reason why I play drums 💪🥁

[@roybeckerman9253]

Great colour under lights...good sound, although I still prefer Ludwig and Gretsch.

[@Shadowdancernight]

3:28 I couldn´t refrain myself to sing: AH AH AH AAAAAAHH AHHHH in this part of the videoLOL.

[@janetcooper7804]

#PEARL4LIFE

[@mrnegronis]

Is that a paint finish or wrap? Also, I think those hoops are triple flanged not die cast.

[@paradigmshiftz7]

CR it's a wrap, and yes, they are triple flanged. It's their Fat Tone hoops

[@ryanisom2064]

What snare

[@PowerTom_kyle]

Please do a video on Reference Drums. Too many Reference Pure videos. Thank you :)

[@MarkOnDrums1976]

Where do Music City Customs fall in the Pearl line? To my knowledge. It goes Masters. Reference & Reference pure...although the Presidential series seems to fit in there somewhere.

[@stevenfederico2594]

Music city custom is not a Drumline it’s a Drum program which just allows you to purchase the reference in the reference pure and get a custom drum set in two weeks

[@mrpositronia]

We miss your input in Spock's Beard, Nick.

[@anthonyn1312]

Why 24x16 kick drum? Because 22 diameter kick drum plus 2 equals 24 diameter and 18 depth kick drum minus 2 equals 16 depth kick drum. And that's why 24 diameter by 16 depth kick drum

[@willgaines5269]

Is this just a replacement for the MasterWorks series?

[@sweetwater]

No, Masterworks is still alive and well. Take care, Nick

[@willgaines5269]

SweetwaterSound Hey Nick, could you explain what the difference between MW and MCC then? I must be missing something.

[@ramenthenoodle_]

Will Gaines i know this is hella late but it seems like Music City customs are quick turn around, limited customization drums and MasterWorks are limitless in what you can do.

[@mikeyruiz1620]

All the drums in the sweetwater videos sound the same

[@chopperking007]

Mikey Ruiz put head phones on...

[@ronnieburton20]

how much

[@boyna13]

6000$ for custom finish, lol

[@Grit489]

I'll put my Tama starclassic Maple's up against any drum out there, these are nice drums but I just don't care for Pearl's mid pitch tone.

[@stevenfederico2594]

Something about pearl the sound never seems right to me. It’s like they’re trying to copy Gretsch.

[@viciousdrums5857]

who tuned those toms lol!

[@roybeckerman9253]

Pity these don’t come standard with a matching snare, as the Reference snares sound great. Another drum company, just being greedy again. Great colour, especially under lights..

[@ramenthenoodle_]

Well they’re a custom kit so you choose the sizes, shell, finish and pieces. So i mean if you want the snare, you order it. lol

[@djoc417]

All these companies trying to just copy DW lol

[@AaronLevyDrums]

+JBHviews How? They've been doing this for over a decade...

[@LayanRecords]

Pearl make custom drum longer than other company..

[@AaronLevyDrums]

+Sheldon Assom they used to. Now they're sizes are pretty much the same as everyone else but also dw used to make deep toms too, search for one of Dw's 90's catalogs.

[@LayanRecords]

+Aaron L ya dude... but the concept of real custom drum.. pearl started it.. Choices of wood..finish and even the hardware colour..everything.

[@AaronLevyDrums]

+Sheldon Assom Sorry man I read your reply wrong, stupid iphone. But Yes I agree that Pearl has been making custom drums longer than everyone else, I had originally thought you meant Pearl made the longer depths than any other company. I'm a doofus! lol