Gretsch Drums Brooklyn 4-Piece Shell Pack Review

Nick D'Virgilio presents the Gretsch Drums Brooklyn four-piece shell pack. The Gretsch Brooklyn 4-piece Shell Pack boasts vintage tone that can only be described as warm, open, and wide. Gretsch drums have been some of the most played and most recorded drum kits in America's musical history, and you'll hear that same character in the Brooklyn 4-piece Shell Pack. Any drummer at Sweetwater will confirm that this shell pack is an exceptional choice for both recording and performing. Its six-ply maple/poplar shells give you impressive attack with full, round fundamentals.

Learn more about the gear used to make the music in this video:

Drum Kit:

Cymbals:

Hardware:

Drumheads:

Drum Sticks:
Vader Universal Wood Tip

Microphones:

Play-in music:
sound: 1 mark 1 - 13 mk1 compressed
sound: Synth Bass/06 Basses/drop saw
sound: sequenced bass/05 gritmeister
sound: 3 rock - 06 full crying

Play-out music:
This is an old track and I didn’t write down what gear I used. I do know that the loop track playing along comes from Stylus:

[JoeNocella]

Love that "Got a gig with your in town Afro-Cuban band? Perfect for that!" and then all hell breaks loose..

[BenjaminGib]

Holy cow, Nick, you've got those toms sounding incredible!!!! Everything else too. Wow.

[tomhalbouty]

Nick is a powerhouse. I have had this kit in cream oyster finish for about 5 years. It sounds great, is easy to tune and the hardware is excellent.

[Dettol]

Nick does such a great job on all of his product video's....I specifically liked this because of the variety of playing he did on this video

[Delrada]

Nick, you always do such great, professional videos. Very inspiring.

[travisjohnson]

The first rack tom sounds a little too high and thin for me, but that second rack tom might be the best sounding tom I've ever heard. Overall, very nice kit.

[JakeStaffin]

Seeing Nick play so many different style of music on a high end Gretsch kit just feels right. Since Gretsch has been really redesigning their lineup in the last few years, any plans for Sweetwater to do reviews of the redesigns for the Renown RN2, Catalina Club or Energy (and energy street kit)? I'd also love to see Nick go down to their factory to make a tour video and design a USA custom kit.

[stevebowers]

A
Kit sounds great, awesome display of playing, great demonstration on all Sweetwater demo's!!😎😎

[roybeckerman]

Love the Brooklyns, my favourite Gretsch drums.
Unfortunately, they sometimes don’t come with matching Brooklyns snares, which is annoying.
They should come standard with the kit.
If you want to use another snare, that’s fine, but at least provide the matching snare as standard.
People have multiple snares these days anyway.
Brilliant drumming, as always.

[jeffballou]

Gretsch are such clean sounding drums. You can not hide behind them, get your chops up, and they will be magic for you : )

[charliemay]

Killer review Nick. This made me start looking at the Brooklyn as opposed to the Catalina. Awesome stuff. You rock.

[RoeShamBoe]

nick is the best kind of gretsch fanboy :)

[pablocalvo]

Hi Nick!! Love your videos, you are an amazing player. Here to ask if you could you do an updated video for the new Gretsch Renowns? I like your new recording setup and because the Renowns are the higher line of the "non-USA" kits it would be interesting to have it to make a fair comparison. Thank you!!

[roybeckerman]

Great sound and playing.
Nick makes all brands sound good, but Gretsch and Ludwig are special.

[pfallasro]

Great video I now want a brooklyn set even more :P

[glanemann]

Me likey. The sound that kit makes is the sound I like.

[hihats]

nice playin', Nick...that last track sounds vintage Genesis inspired

[ChrisHunterSavesTheDay]

Nick is a ventriloquist as well?! AWESOME!

[gallienus]

The way he has that 12 inch tom tuned it sounds bigger than a 12 inch drum. It's also tuned perfectly IMHO.

[MatthewVlossak]

How did you tune the heads of the drums? Were the bottom heads tuned higher than the topcs ones? Or vice versa? Your reviews are what I keep watching to determine what kit and snare I'm going to buy next!