The Best Birch Drum Sets

Here’s our current favorite birch drum sets in stock!

Links to purchase the drums in this video:

British Drum Company Legend Fusion 4pc Drum Set Whitechapel

British Drum Company Merlin Snare Drum 14x6.5

Yamaha Recording Custom 4pc Rock Drum Set Real Wood

Yamaha Recording Custom Wood Snare Drum 14x5.5 Real Wood

Canopus Yaiba 5pc Groove Drum Set Ebony Lacquer

Sonor SQ1 3pc Drum Set 22/12/16 Hot Rod Red w/ Natural Hoops

Sonor SQ2 Vintage Beech Snare Drum 14x7 Papyrus White

Cymbals:

Sabian AAX 20 Thin Crash

Sabian AAX 18 Thin Crash

Sabian AAX 22 Medium Ride

Sabian AAX 15 Medium Hats

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[T-Hawkeyes]

Full Mix:
17:02 British
17:23 Yamaha
17:44 Canopus
18:04 Sonor




Room Mics:
18:24 British
18:44 Yamaha
19:05 Canopus
19:25 Sonor


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[parsnips]

Wow that British Drum Company kit sounds amazing, especially that kick drum. I would say that though because I'm British!

[AdamTuminaro]

This was awesome! Well done guys. SQ1 gets my vote, but the British kit sounds amazing!

[svenrustempasic]

In my heart, in my musician's soul, the clear decision is British Drum Co. Legend! No doubt about it. However, as a Sound Engineer, in Recording Studio, it would be Yamaha - somebody very clever, very experienced... designed, made those Yamaha drums to avoid PAINFUL problems with recording various not-so-suitable drum sets in studios. As for my choice of LIVE, STAGE drum sets that would be picked up by mics on large stages (concerts) it would definitely be Sonor SQ1 - since live situations usualy demand those STACATTO (stacattisimo!) strong attack and not much ¨aftersound¨ from drums on stages. But, in my band, drums that would be desirable would be British Drum Co. - awesome!

[larrytate]

I like the British and the Canpous best here.

[adamb]

Keith Keogh is the guy behind BDC. He's a master cabinet maker and I knew him back when he first started making custom drums!!
He worked in the same building legendary British drummer Steve White taught in!! Great place to hang out!!
He then went on to become Premier's main r&d guy. Glad to see he's still making great drums!!

[af]

Birch has always sounded so much better to my ears than maple. 30 years drumming and I still go for birch.

[zacdrake]

IMO, the Canopus sounded the best in the room mic scenario, almost like full mix! Punchy, tone, definition!! All the rest are very nice, but those stood out, especially just using room mics

[bbradleyish]

Recording Customs for this guy!
I absolutely love these shoot out videos! It’s so nice to hear all of these world class kits next to each other. Great job... As always

[ricohorton]

I like the Sonor SQ1 and the Yamaha Recording Custom.

[Rehynn]

The Canopus is much cheaper than the other sets and sounds as good as any of them. Really impressive.

[microkit]

Really nice that we live in an era that has such great, detailed, well recorded reference/demo videos.

[drumsandstix]

They all sound great. Having owned several Birch kits I love their characteristic sound and dont know why drummers dont want them! Weird! I loved the British Drums and the Yamaha

[kierancotter]

Great comparison video. For me the Sonor won me over. It was the darkest sounding of the bunch, but it was a lovely, clean tone which was fascinating to hear. The British drum co. kit was a nice surprise, didn’t expect to get so much volume from them.
Overall, my only gripe with these kits are they sound great, but if the rack toms were just an inch deeper, they would be phenomenal sounding kits. Kinda like the Sonor Birch Infinite kits from a few years ago. They sounded killer.

[tmaddrummer]

Shane you know you were feeling great about British Drum nice catch! I must agree that the new Yamaha Recording Custom sounds better than ever! Canopus so far the most boisterous of the bunch! Although I can be pleased with any of these kits, the Sonor has the sound for must be the reason why I'm just a ordinary average Sonor guy! The British Drum Company is the most open sounding, the Yamaha the most defined sounding, Canopus are boisterous, but in a very good way, and Sonor has my ears! As always, thanks for another great presentation, Y'all are the best!

[jimmydunn]

Great video! Thank you for doing these demos with the snare turned off and on! It makes all the difference in the world!!!

[PhinAI]

My preference, from what I hear from the room mics, in order: BDC, Sonor, Yamaha, and Canopus. I want to prefer Sonor, but it simply doesn't sound quite as defined with the guttural depth of the British. Yamaha surprised me -- pure wholesome goodness! Canopus just doesn't sound as crisply defined as the others.
Birch. I think I want some. I like it's deep roundness a bit better than the somewhat "tinnier" sound of maple. I'm gonna have to listen to some more sound samples to decide. These head-to-head samples without compression, etc., are invaluably helpful! Thank you!

[johnrobinson]

Yamaha Snare, British bass drum, were my favorites. Trying to figure out which toms I liked the best. They all sound great! Maybe Sonar toms if I had to choose. Awesome video!

[chocolathogs]

When you played the Canopus Yaiba II drums it’s sounded as if I were at a 80’s rock concert.

[SightNSoundBand]

Great video...I have been playing Premier for years...looks like there is yet another fine British drum company on the scene! :)