Jivi
Senior Member
Recently I have been looking at various materials that drum kits could be made of and different innovations that various companies have come up with to change the way drum kits are made. I came across cool materials like carbon fiber and fiber glass kits and also found that Pearl has a Masterworks carbon fiber kit available. Even so, there are only a handful of companies that use these other materials.
Some innovations I thought were cool were the Kumu sideholes on their kicks that let you have both heads on without a hole cut into them but rather cut into the bass drum itself therefor leaving the resonance intact. Sleishman make their interesting free-floating drums too which tunes both heads equally with each other supposedly providing that perfect sweet spot as well as full shell resonance.
I was just thinking that the majority of drum kits are still made more or less the same way these days and not many stray too far from the norm. Are woods superior to lesser used materials because they actually sound better or because by knowing which is made from wood and which isn't we automatically say that the wood is "warmer"? And are the small number of innovations that creep up not actually as good as they are made out to be hence more companies don't copy?
Mind you I haven't heard any of these myself, just wondering what you guys think, are manufacturers and consumers stuck to tradition or is the tradition still the better way to go?
Some innovations I thought were cool were the Kumu sideholes on their kicks that let you have both heads on without a hole cut into them but rather cut into the bass drum itself therefor leaving the resonance intact. Sleishman make their interesting free-floating drums too which tunes both heads equally with each other supposedly providing that perfect sweet spot as well as full shell resonance.
I was just thinking that the majority of drum kits are still made more or less the same way these days and not many stray too far from the norm. Are woods superior to lesser used materials because they actually sound better or because by knowing which is made from wood and which isn't we automatically say that the wood is "warmer"? And are the small number of innovations that creep up not actually as good as they are made out to be hence more companies don't copy?
Mind you I haven't heard any of these myself, just wondering what you guys think, are manufacturers and consumers stuck to tradition or is the tradition still the better way to go?