dxtrinc
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I work at a local drum shop and we recently got in one of the new Yamaha Phoenix drum kits.
With a whopping price tag of $6500 for 10, 12, 16, 22 i expected the best of the best.
Before anyone here starts ragging about my tuning abilities I've turned the worst oldest pieces of crap into gigging kits. I've tuned pretty much every major drum companies lines with tons of different kinds of heads. I've done it all and i know I'm good at what i do (not to be an arrogant dick lol).
Point being we took down one of the toms today to see what the thing sounded like. With the stock heads...not much...but generally that is the case. We tried a single ply coated, a 2 ply coated head, a 12 mil (just for something in between), and a 2 ply pre-dampened head (I'm leaving out brand so a drum head discussion doesn't start up lol).
The crazy thing is we could not tune this drum to sound good! AT ALL! For $6500 it better tune with any head, sound great in almost any situation and do my friggin laundry!!
I've taken the Yamaha recording custom, maple custom, birch custom, rydeen, gig maker and stage custom birch (awesome drums for an intermediate kit by the way) and made them sound amazing (respectively of course), but I could not get anything out of the phx drums. We even tried another single ply coated head just in case the head we took off the wall was a dud.
I'm not here to bash Yamaha as i said before i like the drums but i was mainly posting this to ask anyone if they have gotten any good sounds out of these drums? And if you have has it been $6500 good?
With a whopping price tag of $6500 for 10, 12, 16, 22 i expected the best of the best.
Before anyone here starts ragging about my tuning abilities I've turned the worst oldest pieces of crap into gigging kits. I've tuned pretty much every major drum companies lines with tons of different kinds of heads. I've done it all and i know I'm good at what i do (not to be an arrogant dick lol).
Point being we took down one of the toms today to see what the thing sounded like. With the stock heads...not much...but generally that is the case. We tried a single ply coated, a 2 ply coated head, a 12 mil (just for something in between), and a 2 ply pre-dampened head (I'm leaving out brand so a drum head discussion doesn't start up lol).
The crazy thing is we could not tune this drum to sound good! AT ALL! For $6500 it better tune with any head, sound great in almost any situation and do my friggin laundry!!
I've taken the Yamaha recording custom, maple custom, birch custom, rydeen, gig maker and stage custom birch (awesome drums for an intermediate kit by the way) and made them sound amazing (respectively of course), but I could not get anything out of the phx drums. We even tried another single ply coated head just in case the head we took off the wall was a dud.
I'm not here to bash Yamaha as i said before i like the drums but i was mainly posting this to ask anyone if they have gotten any good sounds out of these drums? And if you have has it been $6500 good?