1morecowbell
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Interested to hear your views on this. First off I don't wish to offend anyone with kits mentioned simply some observations on the many kits I have played and tried. My theory is there is a great period of drum manufacturing between the late 80s to about 2005 ish. I think pre mid 80s the manufacturing had great wood but a lack of accuracy in the machining out and equipment. After the mid 00s the accuracy of the build is good but the materials are not good in my opinion due to company's needing to meet profit margins and sadly a lot of the good wood being gone and rightfully being banned from being used. I think good wood can be got in a kit today but by god you will pay top dollar for it. I think the market is flooded with semi pro kits that are made well and look the part but the materials gone into them are not as good. The guitar player from my band was telling me about the gibson factory being raided in 1994 and stopped from using a lot of woods subsequently Gibson's post 94 are not as good. Did this happen in the drum world?
A few years ago I bought a reissue genista second hand new condition. I had admired them on line for a while and thought it would be a good little gigging kit, upon first inspection it seems good but it really was not the wood "birch" was almost white in colour with several brown knots and soft like cheap deal the metal was cheap pot metal nowhere near the quality of a original genista. I had a prolite which was to me not sufficient quality for the price tag chome starting to pit almost straight away no where near the designer i have from 03. I have a recording custom from the late 80s where for me has accuracy of the build and quality of materials are good and would cost the same or less as a new semi pro kit new today. Rant over but just a theory mabye I am mad or is there anything to it?
A few years ago I bought a reissue genista second hand new condition. I had admired them on line for a while and thought it would be a good little gigging kit, upon first inspection it seems good but it really was not the wood "birch" was almost white in colour with several brown knots and soft like cheap deal the metal was cheap pot metal nowhere near the quality of a original genista. I had a prolite which was to me not sufficient quality for the price tag chome starting to pit almost straight away no where near the designer i have from 03. I have a recording custom from the late 80s where for me has accuracy of the build and quality of materials are good and would cost the same or less as a new semi pro kit new today. Rant over but just a theory mabye I am mad or is there anything to it?
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