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Originally Posted by STNDRUMS

I like the look of those alot, but have not had a chance to hear them without about 30 other people beating on other drums. Do you have a video or soundclip of you playing? If you can, can you please tell me what the hybrid hardwood is?

Hey bro, Yeah I had been looking at the birch/basswood mix shell kits, like the TAMA s.stars, Pearl visions etc. I like the sound that birch shells create. I spent literally hour after hour setting up and tearing down kit after kit, playing them side by side., comparing toms, kicks, and stocker snares. I put all this stuff through the ringer (my local G.C is cool like that.) It came down to The Pearl Visions, Gretsch catalina birch and PDP X7's The pearls were nice. Nice sound, nice build quality..just good I guess..nothing too earth shattering here though. The Gretsch cat. birchs were a bit nicer still..all birch shells, Wimpy bass drum tom mount.and unfortunately not so great build quality. Then the PDP's Right off the bat, these drums sang even with the stock remo heads! The finish on this series of drums is stunning!(lacquer btw) the chroming on the shell hardware is beautiful. Everything about the shell hardware including the suspension mounts (dw style) was flawless! You can really see dw's influence here. Now the shells:
the bearing edges on all the drums are sharp and nicely cut. The shell interiors are very nice, not a screw or washer missing..eveything aligned perfectly. Just really nice! The sound? AWESOME. Gobs of high end attack and low end presence. Like an all birch kit! These shells are made of poplar hardwood. Not hybrid this and that. I spoke to a dw rep that was in the store. He confirmed this.
It's all in the build man! PDP is dw's little brother, so their attention to detail is first rate all the way!http:// I don't at this time have any sound bites on this kit. I can tell you that after the head swap to Evans EMAD for the kick and EC2's on all the toms..these drums are a monster!