Gretsch Renown?

birdseyemaple · #1 (**permalink**) 09-11-2006, 03:11 AM

As a hobbyist drummer who's been playing for 17 years, I'm looking to by my last drum set - something that will sound good 20 years from now and has a classic sound.

I'm looking at buying Gretsch's Renown Maple 4 piece with the 22" kick, 12" tom and 16" floor tom. I don't need the snare.

My logic - if a Gretsch 4 piece is good enough for Charlie Watts' entire career, it's good enough for me.

Does anyone have any experience playing the Renown line? Any product reviews?

mind_drummer · #2 (**permalink**) 09-11-2006, 09:16 AM

Renown is a GRETSCH very good series (really a professional one) with their die-cast hoops and their shell interior silver sealer coated. This set will last your need but remember that Gretsch Renown bearing edge are 30 degree (except for the snare) instead of 45 which decrease the shell resonance and those kind of edge tend to degrade and going flat faster than the 45 degree counterpart. Also Gretsch 8", 10" and 12" toms are fitted with 5 lugs per rims side which sometimes could be a pain to fine tune the drum.

Good luck and have nice shopping