r/drums

Storage unit in an apartment building. Parking level but it’s somewhat near an elevator and building maintenance rooms.

Picked up a beautiful Silk Jade Starclassic Birch/Walnut with the Black Nickel hardware online from a GC store. She finally came in this week and was soo stoked to start ripping it in the studio we just finished up in my house. Throwing on some new heads and found this… floor tom is cracked through all ply’s up to the wrap. The crack goes about half way down the interior of the shell. How does this even happen? 😭

Packing was mint and box’s weren’t damaged at all. This had to have been damaged before GC even had it. I’m sooo sad. This kit in this color is so hard to come by. This kit is in BRAND NEW condition too. Not a scratch on the kit anywhere. So clean. I’m working with a store to see if they can either find a replacement tom to replace it or if they can reach out to Tama for repair. I’d hate to see this kit go to waste due to this. Is something like this even repairable? These drums sound amazing and don’t want to affect the quality of the sound of these bad boys. My heart hurts.

Thank you for such a fruitful career with so much groove.

You will be missed sir. I love how you played for Peaches and Herb .

https://artvoice.com/2026/04/03/james-gadson-is-dead-and-the-list-of-songs-he-played-on-will-stop-you-in-your-tracks/

My “FX Corner” getting some love on this slinky little @Jamiroquai groove.

These were made before they released the small batch of Concept Shop Trap Stack models.

These are larger and a bit heavier.

Sizes 15”, 15”, and 11” bended plates.

Z’s take on the famous Clap Stack.

And what a sound it has.

Used in good condition

A few days ago I posted my drum kit and how I could improve it and a lot said to get a rug 😭 so I finally did!

I would like to know any good head recommendations since it still has the original ones (Remo UT).

I was thinking about 'Emperor clear' for batter and 'Ambassador clear' for resonant, but maybe I will go with 'Pinstripe'. Is there any good recommendations from other brands? Evans, aquarian, etc.

Tom sizes are:

- Rack toms: 10x7 & 12x8

- Floor toms: 14x16 & 16x16

- Kick drum: 22x18

- Snare: 14x5.5

I usually play rock(emo, math, indie) and metal, for example, Paramore, BMTH, glass beach, foo fighters pierce the veil, etc.

Browsing the Guitar Center website this morning, I came across a bunch of new snares and drum sets from OCDP...does anyone here know anything about this? Do we think these are gonna be any good? Looks like they just uploaded a new video with Adrian Young, too. I'm gonna go watch it right now.

first time trying double bass pedals, and splitting the rack toms up as such, but it's been so fun.

With my band i played first concert and i was surprised by how good sounding and looking the kit was. Next thing that surprised me was that the club was sold out (around 300 people). Do you think thats good?