Sell Tama for DW?

Mrcoffee

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Need you guy's opinion on this. I've always wanted two sets. Now I've got them ! One is with the band and the other one at home. One is a Tama Birch/Bubinga that sounds great. The other one is a very recent DW Collectors that also sounds very good although, since it's new, it needs to find its own sound so, I will test a few more heads on it.

I recently got a very nice offer for my Tama B/B that's a year and a half old... for 400$ less I had originally paid for... tax included ! When you add the fact that I got my eye on another DW... QUESTION : You would get rid of the Tama since you now have the opportunity to do so and buy the DW?...
 
Mrcoffee said:
Need you guy's opinion on this. I've always wanted two sets. Now I've got them ! One is with the band and the other one at home. One is a Tama Birch/Bubinga that sounds great. The other one is a very recent DW Collectors that also sounds very good although, since it's new, it needs to find its own sound so, I will test a few more heads on it.

I recently got a very nice offer for my Tama B/B that's a year and a half old... for 400$ less I had originally paid for... tax included ! When you add the fact that I got my eye on another DW... QUESTION : You would get rid of the Tama since you now have the opportunity to do so and buy the DW?...
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Im confused. Are you lookind to possibly sell your 1 Tama so that you can own 2 DW's?.
 
Yes, that's pretty much it !! I've got the buy-a-new-kit-buzz but before I do, I want a little shared experience with you guys who might have gone through this and maybe... were happy about the move... regretted it...
 
Mrcoffee said:
Need you guy's opinion on this. I've always wanted two sets. Now I've got them ! One is with the band and the other one at home. One is a Tama Birch/Bubinga that sounds great. The other one is a very recent DW Collectors that also sounds very good although, since it's new, it needs to find its own sound so, I will test a few more heads on it.

I recently got a very nice offer for my Tama B/B that's a year and a half old... for 400$ less I had originally paid for... tax included ! When you add the fact that I got my eye on another DW... QUESTION : You would get rid of the Tama since you now have the opportunity to do so and buy the DW?...
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Sounds like you love the sound of the Tama but only like the Sound of the DW.
Why trade 1 love for another like?. Know what I'm sayin?.

I have a Sonor Force Maple kit and I plan on buying a DW also. I like the idea of having 2 distinctly different kits and I'm not too stoked on having two of the same. JMO.
 
If you like the Sound of the Tama more than the DW, why not sell the DW and buy another Tama.
 
I agree with Grunt,
Your Tama isn't broke, So why fix it?
Keep what you have, You don't need another DW kit.
 
If you want something a bit different and you like the sound of your B/B, sell the DW and buy a full Tama Starclassic Bubinga set of drums. They'll be a little less expensive than the DW and you'll again have a different sound. That is if their sound matches your style of music.

Dennis
 
Keep both kits you have. And keep saving money. When you get enough money together, to buy a 3rd kit, do so. And buy something that's not a Tama or a DW. A vintage kit, perhaps. Or "something" unique, like a Peavey Radial Pro. Or "exotic", like a Kumu, or Spirit kit. Or a Ming carbon fiber kit.​
 
I'm going to be the one dissenting opinion here having owned two Tama kits (Granstar II) and sold one of them to be able to buy one of my DW kits and then sold the other because I didn't need to have four kits as I have a second DW kit which I negotiated very well for and a vintage Ludwig drumkit.

I used to love Tama drums but their hardware continues to be problematic and I don't like the attitude of the company towards the buying public which makes thier existence possible. I also want to add that I bought this Tama kit after choosing it over a Yamaha Recording Custom drum kit which Dave Weckl used for a drum clinic and regreted it big time because Tama is just sloppy seconds when stacked up against the quality of Yamaha.

Yamaha does everything better than Tama; Tama is in the drum business for a cheap fast buck, in my opinion.

I realize that we are not talking about Yamaha vs Tama here. However DW hardware has set the standard in the industry for the time being.

My opinion on your dilemma is that if you can trade for what you want by selling what you have, go for it - it sounds like opportunity knocking to me and it is a philosophy of mine that I learned from a classmate in high school who craved a 1968 Camaro. He bought and sold until he eventually ended up driving a 1968 Camaro!


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Skitch, You are the first person that I have ever seen complain about Tama hardware.
Yamaha makes great drums and their hardware is legendary.
I have no problems with either company.
 
I once sold a Tama Starclassic. I regret that every day.

Tama hardware is IMO awesome. I have never had a problem with it.

I own drums by many manufacturers and I do not play favourites. I own Starclassic and Signature Tama snares. I own Yamaha snares. Am not a fan of Absolute lugs. But the shells are great.

To this day I have not heard a DW that sounded good to my ears. I did once buy a Collectors maple 6x14 but the band, so spoiled by my other awesome snare drums complained bitterly mid rehearsal and I had to switch it with, funnily enough, a Tama snare to appease them.

Were I you I would never trade a Tama drum for a DW.
 
wy yung said:
To this day I have not heard a DW that sounded good to my ears.
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I was pretty much the same way, just about every DW Collectors kit I ever played sounded as if it was missing something. None of them ever sounded bad to my ears, just not to the level that I thought their high costs justified. My opinion of DW changed a bit after I had the opportunity to play one of their Classic kits with the bass drum cymbal mount and rail mount for the rack tom. The Classic shells are made from poplar and mahogany with thick maple re-rings. It put DW into another class of excellent sounding drums, in my opinion. I also have fairly high regards for their Jazz kits. One of their Collector series kits sat right next to one of their Classic models and it was like night and day.

The thing about Tama hardware, I also heard less than stellar reports, but I've been using it on my Tama Starclassic Bubinga kit for about two and a half years without a single mishap and the bubinga shells are very heavy. They've always been rock solid with great stability and it stays put after it's adjusted. Same exact thing for the Yamaha products. I like DW hardware very much, but it seems as if the weight factor is about the only thing DW has over most other manufacturers. The 9000 series is very weighty and the 5000 is not far behind. They're solid as a rock though.

Dennis
 
I hear ya.

For many years since 1982, Japan has been producing better Fenders than the USA IMHO. So it should never be about comparing countries of manufacture. It's about the company ethos.

Davo
 
Mrcoffee said:
Need you guy's opinion on this. I've always wanted two sets. Now I've got them ! One is with the band and the other one at home. One is a Tama Birch/Bubinga that sounds great. The other one is a very recent DW Collectors that also sounds very good although, since it's new, it needs to find its own sound so, I will test a few more heads on it.

I recently got a very nice offer for my Tama B/B that's a year and a half old... for 400$ less I had originally paid for... tax included ! When you add the fact that I got my eye on another DW... QUESTION : You would get rid of the Tama since you now have the opportunity to do so and buy the DW?...
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You probably walked into the wrong place looking for too many folks to side with DW over Tama. Personally, I would dump the Tama without hesitation. That said, who gives a crap what anyone else thinks? Do what makes you happy.
 
Brundlefly said:
You probably walked into the wrong place looking for too many folks to side with DW over Tama. Personally, I would dump the Tama without hesitation. That said, who gives a crap what anyone else thinks? Do what makes you happy.
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I say you should also do what makes you happy. But personally, I have dumped DW for Tamas. Two DW kits as a matter of fact.
 
bobdadruma said:
Skitch, You are the first person that I have ever seen complain about Tama hardware.
Yamaha makes great drums and their hardware is legendary.
I have no problems with either company.
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Machined T-screws into soft porous white metal threads which crumble over time with the result of a stripped thread when I'm on a gig, like one of the threads on a bass drum spur when I was setting up for gig. I have a whole box of Heili-Coils to solve this problem with the result of me working on something that I never should have to.

Then I solved the problem all together; I got rid of the Tama gear.

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wy yung said:
I once sold a Tama Starclassic. I regret that every day.

Tama hardware is IMO awesome. I have never had a problem with it.

I own drums by many manufacturers and I do not play favourites. I own Starclassic and Signature Tama snares. I own Yamaha snares. Am not a fan of Absolute lugs. But the shells are great.

To this day I have not heard a DW that sounded good to my ears. I did once buy a Collectors maple 6x14 but the band, so spoiled by my other awesome snare drums complained bitterly mid rehearsal and I had to switch it with, funnily enough, a Tama snare to appease them.

Were I you I would never trade a Tama drum for a DW.
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The Tamas I sold off sounded flat and lifeless compared to the DWs that I own. And every artist I play for wants me to use the Aluminum 5x14" Snare Drum. Funny, MY band always used to complain about the Tama snare drum that I was using - lol!

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Mike it is possible we do not see A grade DW's in Australia. I own 34 high end snare drums. But not one is a DW. Why? If I heard a good one I'd buy it. I mean why not?

I have learned things since that make me dislike the company. But still a good drum is a good drum. My experience with DW though, which is considerable, is that they are sub par. Except the Keller DW drums. They sound great.
 
wy yung said:
My experience with DW though, which is considerable, is that they are sub par. Except the Keller DW drums. They sound great.
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Yeah, almost everything I've played with Keller shells sounds great, but I'm not a fan of those high mass lugs. Too much metalwork hanging off the shells IMO. That said, Larry's tubs always sound superb!

I've had a few quality issues with DW hardware. A number of memory locks have fractured due to sub standard castings. Best hardware quality = Yamaha & Sonor, by quite some margin.

Hey, Mrcoffee, you're sitting with an expresso & a cappoccino, something for different moods. Why order 2 cappoccinos?
 
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