I have no doubt that without so much padding, it would be deep and full of deep character. That’s not a reflection of the drums though. It did give a punchy sound but that’s just not my thing. This came with a full front head (with six small venting holes equally spaced around the head) and fairly heavy internal muffling, which I have to honestly say isn’t my kind of set up. The smaller toms feature Suspension Tom Mounts (STM), and all four had True Hoops and True-Pitch 50 tension rods (something all of the drums overall have) which allow for really fine tuning. The 10 and 12” drums were mounted on a floor stand and the 14 and 16” were on legs. It’s really quite cool and gives definite practical options. tight, medium or lose, therefore giving you an instant change in the drum’s sonic character. The butt plate, if you’ve not come across it before, allows you to choose where you have the snare wires in relation to the bottom head, i.e. The drum had DW’s Magsafe throwoff, adjustable 3P butt plate and 20-strand TrueTone snare wires. It sounded lovely – lots of body and a really nice tone as well. I don’t know if it was just the way the drum was tuned when it came out the box or what, but I wanted to buy this drum for myself. All of the bottom heads were clears, with the bass drum front head being a black logo head with small air holes but no main porting. Plies – mounted toms, 7 ply floor toms, 8 ply snare, 11 ply kick, 8 plyĪA Smooth White double ply batter heads feature on all of the drums except for the snare, which had a coated head on it. The review kit was a six-piece set – four toms, kick and snare – with nickel plated hardware. And, after spending a little time with this kit, its obvious they’ve done a good job with it. Aside from the recent Timeless Timber Romanian Oak kit, this is the first time DW has produced anything in oak.
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