For awhile I'm my younger days I ran two sweet rides, traditional on my right and brilliant on my left. The traditional had a bit more warmth and stick sound, the brilliant had a more glassy crash sound. Very fun set up plus crashing two 21's caused my guitar player to have to upgrade from a 2x12 to 4x12 haha.
Sweet! I might upgrade the whole kit if they're half as good as I think they are.
Love the finish! I'm a recent convert to Pearl so you could say that I am 'jelly' as I hear the cool kids say these days haha. One curious observation: the session studio select, while not their highest end offering, could be considered a pro level kit yet they ship it with Remo UT's? I'm surprised.
Yes there’s master grade shell material, as far as nuance your pointing out, I have ready, a round of ambassadors for resos and cs dots for the batters, PS3 for kick, coming piecemeal are the ... and masterca.. oops
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Beautiful, Ransan. Welcome to the Session Studio Brotherhood.
Very nice! And... Welcome to the forum!
Beautiful finish on that kit, I think the next time I buy a new kit I'll give Pearl a serious look. I remember having an Export kit and hating the tom mounting hardware and since then I disregarded them, but that finish looks better than anything I've seen from Tama recently.
I've had a SR on my kit for 8 years and I've tried to find another cymbal to work with it and I realized I was comparing everything to a Sweet Ride so I might as well just try 2! Now I'm probably going to get a 23" and put that in my ride spot eventually, but it's wild to think that the answer was right in front of my damn face!
I was going to say "TRAITOR!", but after seeing the new set, I just can't. They're too nice. Post pics when you get them set up.
. I will at least be playing it once a week, so I feel some ownership here. So yeah, the sizes are 22"x17" (x2, two bassdrums), 10"x7", 12"x8", 13"x9", 16"x15", 14"x5,5" snare. No hardware, will be using the stands from the beater kit he has at his place for the moment. Also ordered Remo PS3 for the bassdrums, Emperor clear for the toms (the resos we will have to make do with the UT's that come with the kit for now).
I wouldn’t let the Pearl mounts hamper your decision. My first big boy purchase at 16 was a Pearl export, didn’t sway me away, in fact I chuckle at those who harp on the tom mounts, maybe because my first kit was a cb 700, heh, humble brag.
Yessr thank you for not grilling me.
I'm pretty sure that 16 year old me would hate the drummer I've become 20 years down the line, I only use two toms and don't have a single Z Custom on my kit! My first kit was a Percussion Plus kit with roto toms, because when you can't play a steady beat the solution is 3 things to hit!