Was thinking thw same… can you tell me, if you tried the shadow, how does it differenciate from the 30th anniversary? Thx
I tried the shadow and the 30th anniversary but not enough to be able to compare them, I got them one month ago, almost at the same time but spent the past month in cleaning like crazy my drum carpet, area rag in fact, that my son's cat peed on for days before I noticed it. But when I noticed, I can tell you, you cannot stand two minutes on it without havibg your nose burnt by the Amoniac smell!!! Just put back the drums yesterday....
I live both, the shadow has also a suoer look with the Rosewood banner, I would say the Walnut one might have a bit more low end? But he look is awesome as well....
Well, I will check both and will post in the results of my thoughts in the next few days, I will also have my usual summer/friend/demonstrator/owning 75 snares to come by and check it as well...
He's a real drummer and I'm not (Well, I do Jazz better than him for basic jazz groove as I've done that for years on key so...). I'm still learning how to listen to drums in both a live set up and a studio set up. But I could tell you, as I said when I posted the thread "Mapex snares, why not?... But which one?", I was thinking that Mapex was a second tier brand, ok, maybe not but not at the level of the 3 or 4 others like Tama, Yamaha, Pearl or any of the US made ones, Ludwig or Greatsh (For me, wood is not top specialty for Ludwig and I think I could find better drums than the usual BB or Supra).
But a guy named "Mapex always" on drumforum told me to try the 30th anniversary because it's the same wood as the revered deep forest wood/snares of the 80's and also that his prefered Mapex is the Shadow...
And I was lucky enough to find a 30th anniversary on sales at my usual dealer network (had to have it transferred) and also the shadow at the north location in my city.
But I was astonished at how they sound good right out of the box, super easy to tune and checking all the boxes for me and I play more Funk/Pop/Dance/Jazz/Jazz Rock.... As a keys player....Rock when I have to play for other bands but when I started my band before Covid, it was a Pop/Dance/Alt rock show for people to dance on with songs post 2010 or in the vein of Chic/Nile Rodgers, so, rock is ok but anytime I have tried to convince guitarists that keys could bring a lot to a pure rock band, I was pushed back to brass and effects duties or a bit of organ but "make sure the keys don't overwhelm the guitars", they were saying to the sound guy.... I had even to stop playing on the intro of Mondance/Van Morisson because I was not hearing my piano in the front PA!!! And you start piano only....:
All that to say that it's tough for me to imagine any of them in a hard rock setting or a metal setting....Not that they won't be good but, it's not my preference music wise...(My most hard rock album might be Deep Purple when I was 15...). I will try my best and let you know, sorry for not being immediately helpful in this one.
Here is the list of my last band, so, you see there is no Metal...Sorry.