Cheap Drums vs Expensive drums

[paulofduty]

You know you’re not a drummer when you can’t tell the difference between a $2, 300 pearl kit and a $150 set of Jin Baos

[Bambozler]

As a bassist i can't understand anything this man says but goddam i can just watch this for hours

[sleekskyline]

What I learned is that a true professional can make anything sound awesome

[Kummahndough]

4:16 is the embodiment of "I paid for the whole drum head, I'm gonna use the whole drum head"

[ghostsmoke]

I've played drums a number of years and I can say your tuning ability is top notch; to make that abomination of a kit sound remotely like a Pearl Reference is a feat, well done.

[sodapone]

The fact you were able to examine the 16's wear patterns and determine that somehow a complete drum novice got their hands on some of the best drum shells ever made only for them to end up being abandoned at Bendigo Cashies tells an utterly insane story that I wish I could get the full details on.

[greb.]

In this video I learned that a master never blames his tools

[Onio_Saiyan]

I'm not a drummer. I'm not even a musician. It's just interesting to learn about all these cool things.

[bobsterss]

Makes me wonder what a drum made of Australian Buloke would sound like, given how obscenely hard that is.

[rbwl]

My youngest son is a year into lessons. Got him a used Ludwig Accent kit from the 90s with serious power toms (12, 13, 16). But I spent on good heads and cymbals and he has that kit banging.

[ricktritten]

I’m a music teacher, and I love learning about all this stuff because we didn’t get it in percussion techniques! The hardness of the wood and how different rim shapes seem like such nitty gritty details (they are) but it’s the little things that make big differences in music! I also liked that you talked about how for the most part it’s the tuning that makes the biggest difference. Have you done a video on different heads? I would be interested in watching that

[YokiDokiPanic]

I'll probably never start drumming for real, but these videos have inspired me to just practice making beats on whatever I have laying around the house "Stomp" style. It's a lot of fun!

[manoflego]

I'll admit it, my untrained ears pretty much can't tell the difference (unlike the cymbals). But hearing your description of how different they sound to you only reinforces how dedicated to your craft you are!

[Charlies_ASMR]

I'm not even a drum fan but every time you say that it's boring time I get excited because I'm here for the weird technical bits or history.

[WRYU]

In woodshop, when wood ended up getting dented, we would get a piece of damp paper towel and a clothes iron, and run the pair over the dents. As long as the wood fiber wasn't damaged, it'd usually bounce back into shape. We didn't really use super hard woods, though, so it might not be as effective.

[galactic-hamster]

Ok as a middle school percussionist from a very small and under budget backwater cesspool that passed for a school, I can probably say that was a high school or elementary school drum set- it was probably funded by a teacher a hot minute ago who knew what they could get and have all the kids they taughr sound good on, and hence the all-over-the-place amateur thrashing. I know my school drumsets, heads, sticks and cymbals were the exact same way and the treatment only got more violent the more people try to play, esp. coming over from other instruments. Still a hell of a find and man, even though my bamd director can suck me sideways (she's the reason I have horrible instrument performance anxiety that I'm still working over) goddamn do your videos wanna make me get back into fucking around on a set. Like, you're bringing up bone memories I don't even recall making, and your energy is doing me so many favors here I love it 💜

[j-davis]

My favorite thing about this is that a kit's sound can change so violently with just a small change in the drum heads and everyone still gets all caught up on the nuance of shell quality

[Anthony-vjnu]

As a trumpet player I can say these two drum kits sound identical to each other, though I imagine my 1923 custom built Holton Jazz-hound and 1956 Holton Super Collegiate probably sound the same to a non-trumpeter too despite the laundry list of differences between the 2.

[swimteamizzle]

"Save your money for nice cymbals and pedals" is an interesting and useful take!

[twr]

Thank you for not watering down your videos with self promo and sponsorships. Thank you for you're genuinely amazing outros. And thank YOU for being you. Rock on mate!