Yamaha Recording Custom Drums Demo

Guitar Center's Product Spotlight provides a comprehensive overview of the Yamaha Recording Custom Drums.

[vivblake]

Been a Yamaha player for years. Despite smaller rack tom sizes this kit sounds superb.

[weschilton]

I've had a cherry wood RC kit since 1986 and its still amazing... but I wish I had gotten these sizes instead of the power toms. But I've gotta say I am digging that mint green!

[thumperpaul]

I bought a ‘70’s era Recording Custom steel snare at a garage sale years ago for $5. Best sounding snare ever%!

[rhythmista]

I recently picked up the precursor to these drums, which is the Tour Series from the late 70's and early 80's, for $500 Cdn.. In the process of giving them a clean up, and will bring those beauties back to life..

[the_farpost]

single ply heads and zero muffling. these sound sooo good.

[danlc]

I love the 7×10", and 8×12" rack toms.

[DavidMcmenemy]

People complaining about the price, have you seen the cost of high end DW kits? Way more expensive and they sound inferior to Yammies, in my opinion.

[pawelmorrison]

This guy knows how to talk up a customer.. well the drums sound freaking beautiful!

[joshsandman]

They sound really good is it the mix or the raw

[Twotontessie]

"You take it to the studio and put a mic on it and you're done." Damn straight. I haven't been playing much in recent years. I took my 80s RCs into a studio lately, we put mics on, hit the drums for about 10 minutes and we were done. Let's start rolling. They're the best!

[Sakumitzu]

Oh man, I'd love to own this kit! Too bad I live in an apartment complex that doesn't allow drums :( One day...

[robertdirocco]

Playing Yamaha since 1992 and these are not Recording Customs. What made Recording Customs (and birch custom absolutes) was the use of hokkaido birch. These are simply drums made with north american birch like other companies use. Sakae is still using the hokkaido in their birch almighty, but they are too expensive

[kidbaston]

To me the RC is the essence of modern acoustic drum sound. I have a whole shell bank and use the drums in every situation to heavy metal to jazz and everything in between.

[itswillcooper]

The drum mix is fuego! 🔥 just tune the snare up a little bit other than that EVERYTHING IS 🤯

[andrewferrara]

Yamaha Recording Custom Drums are great for studio sessions and live performances! For jazz gigs, an 18” or 20” bass drum is ideal, but for rock and metal gigs, a 22” or 24” bass drum is much better because it has more attack

[theonecalledvino]

Looks like Sheila E.'s kit from Prince's sign of the times tour

[iredilorryiyellowilorry]

I take it back -- these sound as good as the Japanese Recording Customs.

[j-bird]

I want these! Can't beat Yamahas hardware either! Only thing I wiuld go with a piccolo snare "no more Tama's". Reason- the last Tama drum I bought, which was a great sounding maple piccolo snare. I kept having problems w the poor quality hardware.

[lucianisidro]

I had a look at the components and you can slot 12" x 10" and 13" x 11" 'power' toms in between a couple of 22"" x 17" kicks, with a 16" x 15" floor tom for less than 5K! Of course that's only going to be about half the total price of your kit, what with hardware, cymbals, snare drum and cases, but my point is, you can go 'old school' with the tom sizes if you want. One thing I really like about the double bass drum set up, is that you can hang your two rack toms centrally off a Yamaha mega-stand and then use the mounts on the kicks for your primary crashes and have them nice and close in and super solid. That does away with the need to boom them in, and those crashes will sound awesome, resonating down into the bass drums, so you want to get power crashes, that's for sure. There are photos of Yamaha set-ups like this - just search Google images for 'Yamaha Recording Custom Double Bass Drum Kits' and have a look for yourself. I used to think it was weird doing that, but now I am converted. P.S. If you want to take the super-cheap route, you can do this with Pearl Export components for about $750! Add a decent snare and cymbals and you're laughing.

[DrummerGrrrl]

The difference is the bearing edges are different from the old version.