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Yamaha Steve Jordan Signature. Not produced anymore, but available used.

Should fit in a VW Sportwagon. About 36 mpg highway.

Interested in the reasons you wouldn’t buy these drums. I believe they are made for Odery in China or Taiwan just like the Pearl and Ludwig kits you mention.

I have no experience with the New Classic line. That would be a maple shell I believe. I don’t think they compete as much as compliment each other. They are both pro level drums so you can’t lose either way

Great drum. Have a Remo Skyntone for batter and Diplomat on snare side. Thinking about putting Grover wires on it as well. Great sensitivity. Use it with my smaller bop/jazz kits and it is perfect. Excellent general purpose snare.

I repaired some cracks in a stave bass drum recently. One of my friends is a highly skilled antique repairman and he recommended that I avoid tightbond glue. His suggestion was Fish Glue which is available online at StewMac. I bought three fabric clamps from Harbor Freight (you can probably get...

INDe mounts. Great stuff!

Dennis at Long Island Drum Center—great guy, great store!

On the Signets, many people have mentioned concern about the snap on lugs, but I don’t recall anyone actually saying they had any problems. Signets sound great and are a different class of drum than the Pearl Decades.

Very musical and fluid playing! Drums sound great.

With all the great Tom suspension options like the Inde mount, I have to question the whole current obsession with virgin bass drums. I prefer the simplicity of a nice tom mount on the bass drum. Using a dedicated tom “basket” stand means more stand bases to fiddle with and saps resonance. My...

I’d avoid electronic cajon models. In my experience they tend to use less responsive front plates and are prone to failure of the electronics/pickups. Get a boundary mic from Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic or Shure. They go inside the cajon so you get good isolation from other sounds on stage and...

Probably the best value out there—prices have gone up quite a bit since I got mine in 2017. Then again, a great player goes a long way to pulling the best out of a kit.

Interesting information. If the Yamaha drums were Oak Customs made by Sakae I’d also classify them as higher-end. Sakae quality is superb and those drums were, and still are, a bargain. An example of quality exceeding price.

From another angle that hasn’t been mentioned yet—trying to get a particular sound that is on a recording can be a real challenge. Major label recordings are done in very controlled surroundings, using mics that often color the sound. Add on compression, gating, spatial effects and lots of...

Canopus Yaiba Bop. Best value in a bop kit if you plan to play jazz

Second that suggestion! I have great results with the EC2 on my Signet 105 kit. Collar also seems to fit the most bearing edges better as well.

Inde throw off. Should fit existing holes and Josh’s stuff is all excellent.

Canopus Club Kit in Bermuda Sand wrap and a Doc Sweeney Stave Kit, mixed species shells of White Oak and Leopardwood. My wife is right on the edge and ready to beat me to death in my sleep....

Yeah. I can hear that Canopus tone but I think there is slightly less sustain and resonance but stronger attack. It’s a good sounding kit to me.