roncadillac
Platinum Member
To start, I know... It's a $400 kit and not going to be anything 'great'.
I picked up a pearl roadshow 4pc kit after having serious seller's remorse when I sold my pearl midtown. I picked up the 4pc roadshow due to it being similar sizes, much cheaper, and including hardware (I needed hardware as well).
One rim on the 10" tom came cracked (definitely not shipping damage for a number of reasons), several lugs are drilled/installed crooked, the bass drum shell is slightly out of round, the floor tom legs are waaaay too short (2-3 inches shorter then any other legs I've ever seen), there is the beginnings of ply separation on the floor tom, and both the tom L arm and cymbal boom arms are wobbly... Like they have been gigged heavily even thought the entire box was noticably factory sealed.
I know this is their cheap kit but seriously? The midtown has the same shells, hardware, and comes from the same factory and that thing was pristine.
The really sad part is it's been almost 48 hours and I still have not received a response from Pearl.
I picked up a pearl roadshow 4pc kit after having serious seller's remorse when I sold my pearl midtown. I picked up the 4pc roadshow due to it being similar sizes, much cheaper, and including hardware (I needed hardware as well).
One rim on the 10" tom came cracked (definitely not shipping damage for a number of reasons), several lugs are drilled/installed crooked, the bass drum shell is slightly out of round, the floor tom legs are waaaay too short (2-3 inches shorter then any other legs I've ever seen), there is the beginnings of ply separation on the floor tom, and both the tom L arm and cymbal boom arms are wobbly... Like they have been gigged heavily even thought the entire box was noticably factory sealed.
I know this is their cheap kit but seriously? The midtown has the same shells, hardware, and comes from the same factory and that thing was pristine.
The really sad part is it's been almost 48 hours and I still have not received a response from Pearl.