[Nigel]

Nice to be here. I'm Nigel, posting from Brisbane Australia. I've been drumming for 15 years. I'm currently sitting behind a 2009 Tama Superstar Fusion in 'Sugar White'. So pretty. I got it fitted with all Evans heads (EC2 on the toms, power centre reverse dot on the snare). I prefer to use Paiste cymbals, although I do have one Zildjian crash that I just love the sound of. I play mostly Funk, Soul, Reggae and some Pop. I enjoy most genres except Metal, C&W and plastic meaningless manufactured chart driven effluent. Massive Attact, Blue Six, Underworld would be amongst my most listened to at the moment.

[butter]

Welcome to the forum, D00d. You come across as assertive and slightly eccentric. I particularly enjoy your description "plastic meaningless manufactured chart driven effluent".

I almost bought a superstar. I was leaning toward the blue one, can't remember what the wrap color is called, though. The white looks sweet, though. It's especially great with the nickel hardware, but I ended up going for a Mapex Meridian Maple. What series Paiste do you use? I've got Sabian Xs20s and Paiste Alphas.

How do you like the reverse dot? I just switched back to a Remo emporor from one of those. I couldn't stand it

Post a lot and happy drumming
butter

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[Nigel]

Hey butter, yeah, the Emporer is my pick. The Evans is a quality product, no doubt about that, and the sound really suits what I'm playing right now, I just think the Emporer was more 'snappy'. I'm smoking a pipe in a velvet smoking jacket, wearing Turkish slippers at 7:30 a.m, I guess I am eccentric lol. (JOKE!)

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[butter]

Haha are you my neighbor??

Indeed. I actually had that same head set up, but I was using EC2 SSTs. My reverse dot was good for a while, I may have just had a defective head, but the dot actually came off during practice one day. I took off the head and stuck it back on, but it was a lousy solution. I sounded okay for about 2 more weeks until the adhesive wore out and I was left with a dot-less reverse dot. The SSTs are still sounding good, but the honeycomb pattern on the inside of the head is chipping off and falling into the drum. Not a bad thing I guess, but kind of messy

Are you using SSTs or regular EC2s?