The popes love child
Senior Member
Hey everyone, I've owned many vintage kits in my day and have enjoyed restoring and tinkering with old drums. However, in doing all this I neglected to play them much and had so many drums coming in and out it was difficult to maintain an entire kit worth of drums.
I saw the Sonor Safari kit online and it seemed to be the answer to all my problems. Pretty good quality, cheap, and simple. It's been a kit that has encouraged me to play alot more and tinker alot less.
The Specs are:
Drums:
14X5 Snare
10X8 Rack Tom
14X12 Floor Tom
16X16 Bass Drum
Cymbals:
12" Custom Saluda Diamond "Heavy Trashy" Hi-hats
18" Custom Saluda Definitive Jazz Crash/Ride
18" Custom Saluda Earthworks Flat Ride
Yes, all my cymbals are from a different Saluda line but they work well together. I am a big fan of the work they do at Saluda.
Hardware:
Vintage Pearl Speed Pedal Hit-hat
Vintage Japanese Flat based cymbal stand
Dynasty Snare Stand
Yamaha Cheapie Pedal (Works fine for Jazz)
Pearl Cymbal Arm
I really like vintage hardware, it's super light weight and I just like old things.
The pedal kind of sucks, but it works fine for jazz ghost notes and the occasional bomb. Doing hard rock beats is kind of tricky with it.
I love my cymbals. I learn towards small cymbals. The Crash/Ride has a great crash sound and has a good washy tone for slow jazz ride patterns.
The Flat ride has terrific stick definition and isn't papery, it's more like a ping flat ride. Very versatile, it works for jazz and rock beats.
I've had my hi-hats for a while. Jamie said he could try to make me heavy yet trashy hi-hats and they're a good combination of both, they're not papery sounding and have a solid bark and chick sound.
Thanks for looking!
I saw the Sonor Safari kit online and it seemed to be the answer to all my problems. Pretty good quality, cheap, and simple. It's been a kit that has encouraged me to play alot more and tinker alot less.
The Specs are:
Drums:
14X5 Snare
10X8 Rack Tom
14X12 Floor Tom
16X16 Bass Drum
Cymbals:
12" Custom Saluda Diamond "Heavy Trashy" Hi-hats
18" Custom Saluda Definitive Jazz Crash/Ride
18" Custom Saluda Earthworks Flat Ride
Yes, all my cymbals are from a different Saluda line but they work well together. I am a big fan of the work they do at Saluda.
Hardware:
Vintage Pearl Speed Pedal Hit-hat
Vintage Japanese Flat based cymbal stand
Dynasty Snare Stand
Yamaha Cheapie Pedal (Works fine for Jazz)
Pearl Cymbal Arm
I really like vintage hardware, it's super light weight and I just like old things.
The pedal kind of sucks, but it works fine for jazz ghost notes and the occasional bomb. Doing hard rock beats is kind of tricky with it.
I love my cymbals. I learn towards small cymbals. The Crash/Ride has a great crash sound and has a good washy tone for slow jazz ride patterns.
The Flat ride has terrific stick definition and isn't papery, it's more like a ping flat ride. Very versatile, it works for jazz and rock beats.
I've had my hi-hats for a while. Jamie said he could try to make me heavy yet trashy hi-hats and they're a good combination of both, they're not papery sounding and have a solid bark and chick sound.
Thanks for looking!
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