What is your favourite drum material?
| Maple |
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53% |
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| Birch |
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23% |
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| Bubinga |
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7% |
( 2 ) |
| Mahogany |
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3% |
( 1 ) |
| Other |
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11% |
( 3 ) |
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yamum28
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 What's your favourite material for your kit?
There are loads of woods being used to make drums today - what is your favourite and why? Mine is maple - the classic sound i think!
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:08 am |
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christopherabruce
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Re: What's your favourite material for your kit?
I'm very partial to cherry, but very underutilized by drum makers. A very warm-roundish sound.
yamum28 wrote:There are loads of woods being used to make drums today - what is your favourite and why? Mine is maple - the classic sound i think!
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:57 am |
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Timekeep69
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I would love to use Cherry but it's not cost effective.
A 6.5 x 14 shell costs $236.00, that's for a raw shell.
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jaundiced
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I'm done with wood. I'll swear by Trick's good ol' AL13 aluminum alloy.
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:50 pm |
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I love Cheese and drums
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I love Bubinga, ever since I heard the warlord drum set. those drums sound awesome. I'd love to get a drum made in bubinga.
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:10 pm |
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SGarrett
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I'm a pretty big fan of birch.
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:21 pm |
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Alan_
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Well, I like the way my ludwigs sound, and they're maple with poplar sandwiched in between.
Birch is good. I can't really say THIS is my favorite wood. I like having options.
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:52 pm |
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Jimbob2020
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Maple or Birch....
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:53 pm |
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Tony H.
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My Saturn Pro's are Maple & Walnut. They sound nice n' warm. But walnut?!?!...
Anyone remember Carl Palmer's custom kit made out of metal with cool design's engraved in them? I asked him once what happened to them and he said some old lady had bought them!!
...and I think Alan White from Yes has a glass kit. Must weigh a ton, man.
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Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:21 pm |
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christopherabruce
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Definately not a cheap material, but does sound quite nice.
Timekeep69 wrote:I would love to use Cherry but it's not cost effective.
A 6.5 x 14 shell costs $236.00, that's for a raw shell.
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Love the mahogany toms on my Tama rockstar costom, very focused, but the kick has no balls compared to my birch pdp f-series. Everything has its use. Exept particle board perl exports.
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Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:18 am |
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xdoseonex
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Alan_ wrote:Well, I like the way my ludwigs sound, and they're maple with poplar sandwiched in between.
Birch is good. I can't really say THIS is my favorite wood. I like having options.
I have an old jazz festival snare like that sounds great
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Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:05 am |
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Olie_Mapex
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right now im i fan of birch, hence my buying my 7 piece M Birch kit. as for snares tho im a fan of the sounds my joey sig has, it has bigger balls than my Mbirch snare.
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zen_drummer
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jaundiced wrote:I'm done with wood. I'll swear by Trick's good ol' AL13 aluminum alloy.
I'm right there with you! I've never heard wood that sounded as "woody" as Aluminum sounds. 
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antiunderscores
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zen_drummer wrote:jaundiced wrote:I'm done with wood. I'll swear by Trick's good ol' AL13 aluminum alloy.
I'm right there with you! I've never heard wood that sounded as "woody" as Aluminum sounds.
now, i could be an idiot, but are u serious about that? and although i only know the basics of woods sound qualities i know mahogany brings out low, and maple brings out the high, and i know lots of electric guitars designed for heavy metal have a mahogany body with a ply of maple so it gives it a natural drop in the middle, ideal for the heavy metal sound... well u see where im going with that. has/does anyone made/make a cross between maple and mahogany?
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jaundiced
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zen_drummer wrote:jaundiced wrote:I'm done with wood. I'll swear by Trick's good ol' AL13 aluminum alloy.
I'm right there with you! I've never heard wood that sounded as "woody" as Aluminum sounds.
+2 (maybe even more) lon live aluminum!!! 
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