I’m a metal drummer with 8” 10” rack toms 14” floor Tom 18” bass drum 12” snare I play fast so I like the quick response and I also like deeper small drums deep and a lot of attack
Gotta give it to David on this one.. small is the way to go, so much fatter sounding and wayyy less overtones. Plus it’s just more visually pleasing too 😂
This is where having variety and knowledge of your kit comes into play too. I own a Yamaha Recording custom with 10,12,13,16 and 24x18 with a 14x6.5 snare and it only comes out when the money is right. I used to use it on small gigs until a friend of mine at church said he had a Tama kit from his childhood that I should look at. 10,12,14, 18x16 kick with a 13x3.5 piccolo snare I was like yup. Whole kit minus hardware in 2 trips to the truck. It's a swing star which is not even in the ballpark of a recording custom but it's extremely easy to tune play setup and breakdown. I even played it in 2500 seat sized theater and the engineer couldn't believe the sound of the little monster.
It might be the way it is mic'd up, but hot damn I love the sound of David's kit. For me it blows the other kit away, which also sound amazing. I'd go David's kit allllll the time.
I'm a old guy.I like shallow (fast toms).Like David said,they have response.30yrs ago I had BIG drums(Deep Toms)My Starclassic kit I have now has a shallow toms,which to me sound so much better than those old Big drums
Imagine David Cola working at a drive through, and when you go to order, you hear, "welcome to _______, my name is david cola and I play the drums, what can I do for you?"
The only place that little kit is going to place over a larger sized kits is listening via a cell phone where I guess the world wants to live so, sorry for your loss in the tonal world. It really is a cool place to live. DW Performance - 24 x 18 Kick, 12 X 9, 13 x 10, 16 x 16 and 18x 16.
Great Video! In This Video I think The Small Kit in Here Has Better Sound! But Overall My Favourite Is Big Drums I Bonham Fan So.. Bass Drum 26×14 14×10 Rack Tom 16×16 Floor Drum 16×18 Floor Drum and 14 Pork Pie Snare
It depends on your style of playing. In my band, I utilize a lot of tom fills that require me to have as many toms as I do. To me, less drums means that you have less sounds to play with and it limits what you can do. Sure, if you play a certain style, you can make a small kit sound great. But for a guy like me, I use my cymbals to accent the guitar tones and play big long fills at times that I couldn't possibly do on a 4 piece set with only a couple cymbals. Now, my drums aren't huge in size, but my overall kit is pretty sizeable.
Im definitely a huge advocate for huge drums, im talking like John Bonham sizes. The one thing I don't like about Casey's kit is how low the snare is tuned though. I absolutely love the response and sound of a large, cranked snare.
@@DavidColaDrums I've never heard a 13 tuned down so I want to know if it's possible. I've got a 10" snare maybe I'll make a video to see if I can make a fat snare with it haha
Drew Harper I have a 13x6 Ludwig Classic Maple snare and tuned low it honestly sounds better than most 14x6.5 that I’ve heard. Just putting in my two cents!
The most important aspect is smaller drums can cutthrough mix easily and if smaller drums made out of Birch,walnut,beech etc then it will rise above every instrument in the mix with warm dark punch and piercing top end......
I got to admit it, I think David is right. I've had my large drums for 30 years and it always amazed me hearing other drummers with smaller toms sound as good if not better than my larger drums. I'll just keep playing my kit for now.
As a guy who grew up in the punk rock scene, I gotta go with the smaller kit. Higher tones break through better I think, and I can't get the same tabletop tight sound from a deep snare than I can with a shallow one. With that said I've always hated how big boy toms go over the snare, I like my snare and I wanna hear it.
The big drums sound to boxy but having hydraulic heads didn't help jmop .I play most of the time with my Yamaha hipgig with 16" kick punchy as all get out ... perfect for funk
Personally for most gigs I would prefer a small kit and even if I need a big sound I can put triggers on it and play samples of bigger drums if it’s absolutely required
That Decade Maple kit sounds awesome!!!! You really can't beat a 24 inch kick drum. I get it smaller drums are easier to lug around and you can make them sound good but you just get so much more low end from bigger drum sizes its worth it to me.
Excelent video, big drums smash your face and go straight to the point. Small drums are cool to play tighter and closer notes, and David has a point ... they are easier to transport
OK as far as my preferences... If we talk size then I gotta go with Taiko... but for quantity...I am biased because I have the black halo glitter kit (Casey’s fault).... and I definitely love watching awesome drummer’s surrounded by ridiculously large kits....but there’s room for everybody!
I just picked up the Tama Club Flyer. For the small venues. I noticed so much airspace. Being a Latin flavor Timbales/Conga player and drummer, thinking about. Infusing 2 together, with ensemble of hand instruments to fill.
Drum sizes all depend on what the gig requires...plain and simple....I have a huge setup in my basement. I'm not moving that kit around....22 bass drum 3 racks and 2 floors....local gigs means small kit.....again...all depends on what the gig requires
Oh Hell Yea!! Alright....alright.....alright.......yea small drums for gigging, and Large dimension drums for recording, personal practice, and stationary kits. My studio kit that doesn't go any where, starts with a 14"diameter X 16" deep shell floor tom, next is a 16" X 16" floor tom, and then the 18" diameter X 16" deep shell floor tom, and finally a 20" diameter X 16" deep shell floor tom. This last drum was once a Mapex kick drum but the wood hoops were swapped out for original Slingerland 20" tom rims using Remo Pinstripe tom [NOT kick drum] head. yes there is a difference and yes Remo sells both versions. My kit has a pair of 24" diameter X 16" deep kicks. this kit has a massive sound that just encompasses you with sound big massive Booming Sound ! Perfect kit for getting your work-out on! Think of the kit set up like this- two floor toms in front of my snare drum, the 18" is on my right side and the 20" is on my left side. The two kick drums are out to the sides with slave pedals to kick them with, one pedal is a left footed slave and the other pedal is a right footed slave pedal. The pedals are custom built with roller bearings and ball bearings and they use the Trick Drums Zero latency drive shafts. Great video you two put put together, definitely makes a couple of points to All drummers. Peace & Care Paco
Having played that Decade configuration and the Midtown configuration - Definitely prefer moving to Midtown over the decade, but preferred the low end beef from the decade. Big drums and drum sets are awesome until you're moving them multiple times a week and you don't have a tech. LOL. I stopped bringing my 18" floor out when I got a 14", because the sound wasn't being relayed through the PA. I could tune the 16" low enough to sound like an 18", and the 14" low enough to sound like a 14". Small kits shhhhhiiiinnnnneeee when you're gigging a lot (and in small spaces).
I always get surprised comments as to how good my small kit sounds. The setup is an 18" kick, 14x5" snare, and 8, 10, 12" toms with a couple of 14" crashes, 12" hats, and an 18" ride. It's definitely nicer to transport than my big kit lol
Gotta be honest as drums being my second instrument I play on a crap 1960s set with new heads and hardware and I’m am already or of the top drummers in my school. Taking cymbals aside it is very similar to David’s drum set in this video. As cool as lots of drums are I always think a smaller set is better. And you can be more creative on one as well.
I think we can all agree you generally can tell a good drummer from a bad one by the way they set up the kit, not the SIZE / QUANTITY OF PIECES of it. (by that, I don't mean all bad drummers don't know how to set up their kit, or all good drummers spend hours adjusting their kit to their body) it depends on the muscles of who carries it AND the capacity of the vehicle that's transporting it, AND the musical requirements of the gig.
