Bo Eder
Platinum Member
So I received another Pearl kit the other day - and the ol' drum room got cleaned and re-set. I got the Pearl Vision VBL bop kit which consists of a 5.5x14 snare, 8x12 rack tom, 14x14 floor tom, and 14x18 bass drum - all finished in a beautiful champagne sparkle wrap. I realize the Pearl website says the VBL drums are a nice lacquer, but in the case of the champagne sparkle, it's a wrap. If it really was a lacquer finish, it'd be alot more expensive than what it is
I have it just next to my black lacquer Reference Pures and now the room looks complete. I have the References all mic'ed up and ready to record whenever I feel the urge. The little bop kit I'll mic up with two mics if I want to record it.
Also - the little bop kit comes standard with coated white Remo UT heads - I didn't even try them and replaced them when assembling the drums. The two toms got a emperor batter on top and an ambassador clear on the bottom, the snare has a Evans G14 white coated head on top, with an Evans snare side on the bottom. The bass drum got an Evans EMAD with the Remo UT logo head on front. That was the biggest improvement to the bass drum - it originally came with a white coated UT head, like an Ambassador coated, but that was it. I'm not lifting the bass drum up - it sounds fine where the beater strikes it. I'm really diggin' this little kit - it feels by far the best quality of all the manufacturers little bop kits (and as you know, I've tried mostly all of them by now). Enjoy!
I have it just next to my black lacquer Reference Pures and now the room looks complete. I have the References all mic'ed up and ready to record whenever I feel the urge. The little bop kit I'll mic up with two mics if I want to record it.
Also - the little bop kit comes standard with coated white Remo UT heads - I didn't even try them and replaced them when assembling the drums. The two toms got a emperor batter on top and an ambassador clear on the bottom, the snare has a Evans G14 white coated head on top, with an Evans snare side on the bottom. The bass drum got an Evans EMAD with the Remo UT logo head on front. That was the biggest improvement to the bass drum - it originally came with a white coated UT head, like an Ambassador coated, but that was it. I'm not lifting the bass drum up - it sounds fine where the beater strikes it. I'm really diggin' this little kit - it feels by far the best quality of all the manufacturers little bop kits (and as you know, I've tried mostly all of them by now). Enjoy!