DW Collectors Drum Sets Showcase - 5 Shells Tested!
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- We demo 5 variations of @dwdrums Collector’s Series Drum Sets. SSC Maple, Maple/Mahogany, Cherry/Spruce, Maple/Spruce and Cherry/Mahogany. Links to more details and to purchase these drums and cymbals are just below!
DW Collectors SSC Maple 5pc Drum Set Satin Natural Oil w/ Chrome Hw
Available for purchase here: buydru.ms/DRX2-...
DW Collectors Maple/Mahogany 5pc Drum Set Pale Blue Oyster FinishPly
Available for purchase here: buydru.ms/DRM1-...
DW Collectors Cherry/Spruce 6pc Drum Set Natural Gloss
Available for purchase here: buydru.ms/DRQ4-...
DW Collectors Maple/Spruce 6pc Drum Set Natural Hard Satin DEMO MODEL
Available for purchase here: buydru.ms/DRA4-...
Used DW Collectors Cherry/Mahogany 6pc Drum Set Candy Black Burst Over Spalted Beech w/ Black Nickel Hw
Available for purchase here: www.drumcenter...
DW Collectors 3mm Copper Snare Drum 14x6.5 Gold Hw
Available for purchase here: buydru.ms/DRVP6...
Cymbals:
Sabian Prototype AA Ride Cymbal 23 3122 grams
Available for purchase here: buydru.ms/SABPR...
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1:04 SSC Maple
2:29 Cherry/Spruce
4:05 Maple/Mahogany
5:36 Cherry/Mahogany
7:24 Maple/Spruce
Cherry / Spruce for me . I didn't know there was a DW shop in NH . I'll definitely be making a visit this summer.
Amazing video. Super helpful and the links here for scrolling the playhead were a great idea. As you evolve how you set these demo vids up, maybe consider an identical fill that you play on each kit with similar links. Jam by all means, but then also have a apples to apples for each one? Regardless, yours are easily the best quality and most helpful comparative vids on the internet. Thanks!
Hoopefully it’ll still be there next year when I go.
How about one of each for a mixed kit
I love 💕😘 Maple/Mahogany drums
That Cherry Mahogany though... oh my god! it sounds so beefy while remaining full bodied and very musical! Definitely the sound for me, of course thanks to the great tuning y'all have done. If y'all keep up these videos your audience will continue to grow! Keep up the hard work New Hampshire Fam!
Dominic Borrelli I found that shell combo sounds like my Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute kit
How did you tune these kits?
I took the DW factory tour a few years ago. Although not part of the tour, John Good happened to be walking by our tour group and I said 'hello' and shook his hand for the first time. Also talked to him again at NAMM 2020. Very nice guy. In any event, at the end of the factory tour, we went into the DW factory showroom and were allowed to play to our hearts content on the various kits. There were many DW kits setup in different configurations, woods, finishes, etc. I'm fortunate enough to have/had several very high-end kits in my lifetime. Pure maple with no re-rings is always my favorite. Second place is Sonor Beech. Third place is Sonor Birch followed closely by Yamaha Birch (before Yamaha moved production to China). But, I got to tell you, in the DW showroom, they had a double-bass cherry/mahogany kit. I believe it had 3 or 4 rack toms, a couple floor toms, and I'm pretty sure a matching cherry/mahogany snare drum. It had smooth, white heads instead of the usual DW clear heads. Everyone on the tour agreed the DW cherry/mahogany kit was BY FAR the best sounding kit in the room. We were listening to the acoustic sound, and mic'ing a kit can produce different results, but if DW said 'take your pick home,' we all would have went for the cherry/mahogany kit. I wish this video included the matching snare drum for each kit. The snare drum sound is what gets me going for a kit long before the bass drum or toms.
I’ve dated Cherry Mahogany. She’s the best dancer at the strip club.
Cherry/Mahogany was insane!!!
Cherry/Spruce all the way...
The cherry/spruce mix is a welcome surprise. Reminds me of birch if it had a brighter attack and a darker tone with added warmth. Needless to say I’m in love.
Thanks for doing these demos, I really appreciate companies like yourselves putting the time into comparing these drums as most people don't get a chance to experience such a variety of high end kits in person. My favourite out of these is the Cherry/Mahgonany but my overall favourite DW and dream kit is still the Pure Cherry, ideally with a Purpleheart snare. I find it interesting that the Spruce added to Cherry makes it sound worse to me, whereas the Spruce added to Maple gives it an even cleaner, punchier sound than just Maple. The Mahogany added to Cherry gives it nice lower down punch but I just love the unique sound of Cherry on its own. A shame more makers don't use it in a full kit, a Tama Star Cherry would be awesome. Mapex have just released a full Cherry kit but there is nowhere near as much customisation available, no 18" depth kick drums let alone a 23"x18" that DW offer. The Mapex does sound great though from what I've heard on CZcams. If DW would accept complete custom requests, I'd go for a Cherry/Walnut mix for rack toms and snare, and a Cherry/Beech mix for floor toms and kick. That would sound killer!
I like the Cherry/Spruce combo
Maple/Mahogany Wow!
Just said the same thing, that's the one for me!
The heads werent all the same so it's hard to tell. They pretty much all sound great lol
cherry/spruce -- attack and sustain was so sweet. not enough low end but the clarity was superb
Greetings from Colombia! Been a huge fan of your demo videos!
In my humble opinion, Maple/Mahogany won this round. These shells project amazingly, great tone, deep low-end and powerful attack.
I own one myself and I've been in love with it ever since I first played it! Thanks!
Thanks, Dani! Glad you liked it. We've got some good videos coming soon, stay tuned!
The cherry Mahogany easily. The Tom's sounded amazing.
Great choice!
When you buy DW you buy quality
All the kits are sounding wonderful..and snare is just exceptional ❤
Hi guys !!! I just received my DW 6.5x14 Rolled Copper snare with the 3mm thick shell and it's absolutely phenomenal!!! I decided to buy it because i heard the one you use in this video that sounds equally phenomenal. Thank you for posting this. 🤩👍
wow cherry / Mahogany sound justn superb. Bass drums of Dw are so killer - for me best sounding bass drums in the industry. Standard Maple Bass drum is awesome but the Maple Mahogany is the killer !!
A lot of people don't give this guy credit for how incredibly fast he switches his left foot from the highhat stand to the pedal, and then to actually hit it with power!
As always a class act in showing us the nuances of high end drums!!! The Maple/Mahogany sounded the best!!! But for my
Money N & C, or Tama Star!😃
Jack Gildea Tama star for sure 👍
Guys I Love your videos. It seems to me that your opinions are honest, so please I think I'm not the only one interested in seeing a Collectors vs Performance vs Design vs Cencept comparasion. They´re all great kits at a veeeery different price point. The way you did the Yamaha comparasion was excellent!!!!
I love the Cherry Mahogany best! They all sound amazing and have their unique character. Also, anyone else amazed that there is literally a house's values worth of DW drums there?
Nice video! I like Cherry/Mahogany the best! Great big low end with the immediacy of the cherry wood! Love it!
Watching this, I definitely made the right choice in buying the Cherry Mahogany!
That snare is a gem. Not a fan of gold hardware, but a 3 mm copper shell is a delight.
We also carry it in Black and Chrome! 😉
In ply construction, the type of wood used has far less influence on a drum’s tone than other variables. For example, the different heads used contributed more to highlight differences between the kits than wood type. These are all great drums, built by craftsmen who know what they’re doing, so they’re going to sound great. I’m just not buying into the marketing of how much wood type influences tone in ply drums. Ply drums within the same wood species, sourced from different trees, will also sound slightly different from one another.
I tend to agree with you to a degree, I think a lot of it is aesthetic, which is great! I love the way some of these woods look. I do think the tone is influenced a little by different woods.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Could not agree more. Diameter, deoth, thickness, heads and the player have way more impact than the wood. It's ridiculous -- all the options. In the end nobody in the audience or listening to a recording can tell or cares whether your drum is made of birch or maple or cherry-gumdrop-ash-poplaritis.
Totally agree Bering edge and head and weight are the main culprits with snares on the other hand you can hear the wood in them
When you buy DW, you buy quality. DW knows how to make drums fit for kings.
Final conclusion is that I want that snare.
Good news, it's available! buydru.ms/DRVP6514SPG
Sounds tinny and reverberated to me. Put a sound dampener inside or moon gel on the head. I can’t stand snares that sound like tin cans. I have an 8x 14 DW snare with moon gel pads (2) on the batter head and sound perfect 👌
@@tomnatortomnator883 that,s only your opinion and opinion,s are like assholes everyone has one.
@@dpurplefox Have to agree - often the "everyone has one" applies.
Agree - often the "everyone has one" applies.
Something still wonderful about the original maples with the reinforcement rings. The sound that really put DW on the map is still amazing…but the evolution of these hybrid shells is just unbelievable.
Really digging the way you guys do these vids with all the different mic combinations to listen from! Think the maple/spruce kit was my fave considering all listening formats
Thank you, Heath! We appreciate you watching.
I am a Birch guy but that cherry/spruce just spoke to me.
High quality
My dream kit when i was a teenager!
The best reviews and demos on the 'net. Thank you!
Wow, thanks!
Cherry/spruce for me!
DW greatest drums on the planet. I like how everyone complains about the money but no one ever says anything about pearl drums which cost Far more
I am SO glad I have a cherry/mahogany. Best of the bunch right there!
Awesome you guy’s are class love your demo l am going to visit you summer19 🥁🥁🇨🇦🇨🇦
Great job 👍 they all sounds fantastic!
I can't thank you enough for something joyful to watch! If I had to pick one out, I would pick the Cherry Mahogany, and I think that might have been your favorite too Shane! The Cherry Spruce and the Maple Spruce sounds pretty good, but the finish is too plain. And we've all been hearing the the classic sounds from Maple Mahogany for a long time, and it never fails. I would have liked to hear the Jazz Series in this mix. Another DCP video treat!!!
I have the Cherry/Spruce and I’ve used it on many soundtracks and live situations and it is absolutely the very best shell you can get. Beautiful highs with a nice bright attack, the mids are scooped out so no headache on that with the mixing engineer having to take that out, and the lows are absolutely thunderous
Brynner Agassi how would you compare the sound of your kit to maple. I like the volume and sustain of maple but the scooped midrange effect of birch. Would you say the cherry spruce gives you the same or more sustain and volume as maple?
@@siberian13 sustain, I would honestly say possibly a little more than birch but less than the Maple. But the volume, is legit equal or more powerful. Cherry is very strong and the spruce gives it that beautiful tone you need. It’s a recording and live engineers dream. I’ve had multiple engineers tell me this and playing them is a dream. With that being said I also have a Maple kit (ssc w/rerings) and the reason I did this was to honestly have the best of both worlds.
the Cherry/Mahogany was my favorite
That Sounded Great!
Are The Drums Tuned to The Timbre Notes Indicated inside The Shells? It Sounds Like They Are!!
If So Then Bravo and Thank You For Honoring The DW Teams Commitment to Quality by Carefully Selecting Each Shell According to Its Timbre Note. This Process Ensures That Every Drum in The Kit Shares A Natural Intervallic Relationship With The Other Drums From The First Rack Tom to The Last Floor Tom, Even The Kick and Snare Drum Complement The Timbre Note Progression of Every Kit That DW Sells.
*Dedication to Quality Assurance is Just One More Reason Why DW Remains The Best Drum Manufacturer in The World.*
They're all great, fascinating sets, no doubts at all, whatever the wood choice you get the very top quality but... maybe I'd go Cherry/Mahogany... and not only because of that gorgeous, stunning, sleep-tormenting look, of course!😄
Love the intro with all those drums lined up on both sides. I felt like a kid in a candy store! I got a little chuckle when I clicked on each kit and they were all sold out. Not sure if its because of COVID19 or that this video is 6 months old. But either way keep these promo videos coming. It's great to see and hear what DW has to offer.
Love the finish on the Cherry Mahogany kit
Nice video. All the sets were nice. The cherry mahogany is the one I'd go with. Not a big fan of DW except the jazz series. those sing to me.
WOW Thank you!!!
You're welcome!
The kits with mahogany are my favorites, but that snare is too nice!
ALL kits sound fantastic.
definitly: ALL of them !
I appreciate all the videos. I do like how you guys did the Ludwig video best...
I’ve been playing DW for 15 years I have a collectors kit I purchased and it’s a great kit if you like maple drums I’m now looking for another and it will be the cherry Mahogany I do believe. However the spruce mahogany sounded really nice as well. The low deep sound of mahogany drums is hard to beat. They sure do great in the studio.
You have good taste - they sound incredible.
Maple or maple spruce. Just has presence to me.
Great work, a drum that has reached the level of art
Cherry Mahogany toms with that SSC kick drum. That bastard is just obscene
Maple / mahogany for me thanks. A great comparison on a nice line of drums.
Glad you liked it!
Room mics são sempre os melhores!!! Cherry/Mahogany
=)!!!!
The amount of money stacked up right there...wow
They're all great, gorgeous kits... flipped my coin, it's Maple/Mahogany.
Cherry/mahogany sounds 🔥🔥🔥
I enjoyed and appreciate the comparison as usual, but it would've been nice to have the same kind of snare as the drums you demoed. Cherry/Mahogany for me..
Thank you so much for this video!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cherry/Spruce
my dreams
The spalted finish under that candy black... I could less what the wood combo is 🥰
Cherry/Mahogany for the win
Nice but woulda preferred the same heads on all the kits demoed🧐😌
Thank you so much for all of your excellent videos. Since there are no local shops where I can go try the various wood combinations, these are really helpful, to a point. Being a new drummer, I only have experience on one vintage acoustic kit. My experience is very limited and trying to assess which wood I want is difficult to determine. The genre I want to play is Rock. I am 63 and loved the late 70s, early 80s stuff. I like Foreigner, Styx, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy and my favorite band is Kansas. A more "modern band" I like is Nickelback. When listening to a high end stereo system, I love to hear a crisp loud mid-range. Does any of this help you to determine which wood combination might be the best for what I want to play and what I like to hear? THANK YOU!
I wish all of the kits were sporting the same heads. I think that would influence the comparison.
I hear you. We decided to demo them the way you would get them if you ordered them from DW. In our next video, we use all the same heads
DW's do sound great, but nothing beats Tama Starclassic Bubinga, especially the MIJ's. Top Sonar kits sound great, but I guess the most important part, is the guy on the throne
Nice, Gotta go with the Maple/Spruce though, followed by Maple and Cherry /Spruce
I appreciate your efforts with all these videos ….. I think this comparison would have been better without cymbals and snare throw off…..keep em coming
Cherry/Spruce ❤
Surprise that cherry spruce was my favorite
cherry = thunder!
Maple/Mahogany for me...wow!
Cherry mahogany
These come the closest (the first kit) to that terrific Ludwig sound.
Cherry Mahogany . . . My fav
I enjoy these videos but two honest observations: if we’re to compare the shells we should be hearing a lot less of the snare and cymbals and mostly just the toms and kick. Having said that, I find very little appreciable difference in tone amongst the shells and I suspect that in a live engagement the audience would detect even less of a difference. A great drum is a great drum, and I can’t imagine having any regrets after buying a set of DWs - except maybe for my wallet.
These days I buy the drums that come in the color I want - with no concern whatsoever about shell material. I bought my high end Pearl Reference because I fell in love with the Shimmer of Oz color.
Cherry mahogany ftw! Damn!
That fill at 6:26 is omg so amazing
Great review Shane, nice to hear all those combos together/back-to-back. Can you list the cymbals you used on this too please?
They were all Sabian Prototype cymbals, most of which have sold. We'll update the description shortly, though.
@@drumcenternh thanks Shane ..... as of 7am it looks like just the Ride was added, ...looking forward to the rest. Thanks!
BTW, I understand you said most are sold but would still like to know what they were? :)
@@metzilla The hi-hats were 13" HH prototypes, and the crash cymbals were 18" HHX Prototypes, I think.
@@drumcenternh thanks!! That crash to your left was just so glassy and crisp, yet had depth too .....un real!!
Not a bad comparison, though it would have been nicer to spend more time playing the drums you are comparing instead of so much cymbals, snare, and bass. Also having the same heads on all of them would have been nice as well.
Thanks for your feedback!
Agreed
Hello. Great video. Do you have the tune-bot settings you used for the Maple/Mahogany Kit? It sounds killer!
Cherry/Mahogany for me 🤗
d w is the best
Maple/Mahogany is fierc
Cherry/Spruce
, i think.
Me too.
What types of batter heads were on the bass drums? And what kind if any, muffling did you guys use? All of those kick drums just sounded awesome!
Maple / mahogany the best
Dw is the best.
I want to explore other shells besides maple but maple just has a hold on me. I just love everything about that sound. Other woods like Cherry, bubinga, mahogany, have more lower end and "boom" but I actually don't like that.
The first kit also had reinforcing rings, while the rest did not. It would have been nice to hear a maple kit without rings as well, just to see if there is any discernible difference.
DW has an old video where they demonstrated all their different shell configurations (VLT, rings/no rings, etc.) in a maple shell. From that video, I thought the simplest configuration (no rings, no diagonal plies or VLT or any of that stuff) sounded the best.
Here, I liked the cherry/mahogany and maple/spruce the best.
This is far from the old days, when DW claimed mixing woods results in inferior tone and sustain.
jC3drums I would have to agree they all should have the same heads to make a good comparison . Now I have to take in my experience using all those different heads and really listen hard to hear the shell difference.
All pretty similar
I wish they hadnt discontinued Keller shells.....post keller DWs they all sound pretty much the same to me (meaning great, yet without that personality that d allow you to recognize them among a mln drums).anybody agrees with me?
Every model had different heads....... kinda disappointed by that. Would also like quick jump points to the different sets and different micing (to quickly compare overhead mics for each for example)
Well I guess 3 of the sets had, presumably, the same Remo coateds but the other two sets had each both different sets of clear heads.
Cherry mahogany sounds best👍
Cherry/Mahogany seems best of all worlds. Nice kits but the cymbals suck something awful or at least are icy sonically in comparison to the kits.
I got to ask,is there really that much of a difference in sound when your behinds the kit shane? I've owned 8 sets of DW in my life.Ive always thought the original timber matched shells sounded the best to me b4 the ssc, vlt, vlx, and so on.I don't get it. The originals were great.Am I missing something?
You can definitely hear differences between say the SSC Maple and the Cherry Mahogany - especially regarding low end frequencies. The differences between some of the others are definitely more subtle, but they are there.
@@drumcenternh thank you for your honesty shane.Your around this stuff all the time.I would think if anybody knows it would be you.You play a lot of different kits.
Original DW's were Keller shells!
Did the bass drum get hella quiet on the last kit or was it just me
Cherry Spruce all day long
Cherry
They all sound great except the Cherry kick drums to my hears
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They all pretty much sounded the same . However it was awesome. How about that Snare!!!.