@@ingakimberlybrown8637 these kits are great boom for the buck. What I like about the original are the virgin shells and all lug surfaces were threaded to accept mounts. Mine has the rare folding cymbal boom.
Bought the exact kit in this vid 4 months ago and will use it to gig and practice. KHS really hits it out of the park these days with Mapex and Sonor. You can't go wrong for only $429. The quality is unreal.
@@y.n.45 I loved evans g2 on my Breakbeats kit.. clear bottom g1. Snare, evans HD dry and Puresound custom pro 20 strand brass wires. And my favorite thing on the whole kit: Aquarian Super Kick II clear bass batter. I'm gonna try some coated G12 and G14 heads next. Maybe reso 7.
Amazing how these modern small drum kits sound! A few years ago I picked up a Sonor 'Bop' kit to use in venues with limited space and for a practice kit. The 'Bop' kit has larger drum sizes (14" snare, 8 x 12" rack tom, 14" floor tom, 18" bass drum) I shied away from smaller drum sizes because I need the versatility of larger drum sizes but yet the portability of a smaller drum kit. It works well for a variety of musical settings and the price was quite reasonable for the quality.
Great content as always. In 1997 I used a 16x16 Sonor floor tom (maple, series unknown) kick while recording with the Smooth Hounds debut album “ No wake in basin “, myself the engineer and everyone agreed in every way that 16in kick sounded incredible. These smaller kicks are so versatile. I’m glad the Sonor jungle kit finally is getting the recognition it deserves.
It’s a good kit, I’ve got the black. Hardware is great, setup is very nice. The biggest issue: heads fit VERY tight on the drums. I mean tight. Evans heads generally fit ‘loosest’ ime, and even they were tight. No spin, they go on like a bottlecap. At lower tunings, I got some weird tones because the heads don’t want to seat. Higher tunings cleared up the issue. It seems they didn’t factor in the wrap and the total circumference ended up a bit large. I may end up cutting the wrap to try and fix it. Otherwise, fit/finish is good for the price.
I just got the micro. I was torn between the two, but I used my floor tom for reference thinking I have a 14" inch floor tom. It's 16". That 14" inch kick seems too small for anything and can't really find heads or bags for them. I wish I would've gotten the jungle. Maybe I'll change my mind once I get to play with it more. I should've gone and compared them at stores first.
AQ2 Martini, Safari and Bop...all titanium quartz...my main kit is 10rack, 13 floor, 14 floor, 13x7 Select maple snare, 12 Martini snare on the left side, 16 bass (ported and punchy) and 18 aux bass ( to the right on a slaved double pedal...double headed and boomy)...a mix of Emmanuelle Caplette and Stanton Moore's setup...
Hey Josiah, yes our roots are Home of Drums but that was a paid project which the company behind that decided to not proceed, so we did a new channel on our own 😊
Very great video 💪👍 What are the TuneBot settings for the toms in low and high tunings and for the snare side head for the different tunings? Best regards Peter
Cute kit. Your definition of high versus low tuning for the Tom‘s and the kick drum leave quite a bit to be desired. My pearl export kit from the 1980s when used in a four piece set up is always a 10 inch rack Tom, and a 13 inch mounted floor Tom. I can get a lot higher pitch and spread of frequency. Pitch range on my kitten wet you chose in this video. You could’ve easily tuned up the Tom’s much higher pitch, and still sounded great and musical.
Thanks for the excellent review. I researched the compact kits from all the major manufacturers - SONOR, Ludwig, Tama, Pearl - even the super-pricey ones (Gretsch!). I bought this kit a couple months with TAMA hardware and Zildjian "i series" cymbals. It sounds great, and the rest of the band thought so, too; our sound guy used a mic on it, but didn't have to add much. I found a Stage Custom 12" tom on Facebook Marketplace for $40 and bought a concert snare stand and will add it in if necessary. I can now carry it all from the car in three trips. I loved my Yamaha Stage Custom but this is so much easier to lug around - I'm too old to do that without a roadie! Highly recommended.
Chuck, have you played many other mini kits? And you have the 14-inch bass drum or the 16"? I want to try to figure out how this compares to the Tama and Yamaha even the PDP.
@@williamperri3437 It's the 16" bass, and no, I haven't played any of the others. Lots of RU-vid videos is all. I just played the kit n a large setting over the weekend and it did very well. Mics on the drums and tow overheads for the cymbals. My sound guy didn't do the setup, it was at the venue. The kit sounded great.
@@RobinHow Sorry I'm so late in replying. I kept a couple of cases from my previous set and bought a new one for the floor tom. The bass (16") fits in my old floor tom case. The 13" snare fits a 14" snare bag, packed with some small towels. I have a 7X10 case on order for the rack tom. I hope you got what you needed by now.
@@mickiej1 in the end I got the Ludwig Breakbeats kit. And Pearl Midtown cases for it. I put remo powerstroke 3 heads in {although the stock heads were pretty decent to be honest). I'm very happy with it.
What are the tunebot settings for the batter head and the reso of the base drum? I have the problem that my beater looks up. Instead of Drum - DrumD. What kind of microphone do you use for the bass drum?Thanks very much!
Sounds nice to me. The snare seems to be the weakest part which is odd since it's the most normal size, maybe it was just the mic. Sonor and Tama seem to be making the coolest micro-kits.
It’s not meant to have a shotgun sounding snare. This drum kit is meant to be for mellow and low key applications. At the price e point the snare is amazing. Stop being a drum snob
I want this kit or: Ludwig breakbeats , Tama jam gig kits. I want to buy Roland RT-30 side mount triggers so I can use as hybrid kit with Mylar heads or A2E kit with mesh heads. I walk with cane so moving full sized drums is very difficult
At least from my experiance( I have Pearl midtown kit, it's quite similar to Sonor AQX), you lose some low-end, but the sound is quite focused and clicky(*which should be a good thing IF you don't want to add triggers😆)
@@Flatheadmedia1 We only cut the top of the thin rod. The rod itself has a thread on the bottom end that's needed to connect the top part of the rod to your foot pedal. So cutting that section would make the Hi-Hat machine useless. Cutting the top end however doesn't affect the functionality at all
I own the AQ2 martini kit and people even the sound engineer gets surprised on that big punch and projection that 14" kick has . I have an aquarian superkick (batter) / Ambassador Fiberskyn with 4in port hole (Reso). Sonor micro kits are little giants. 😂
I have the 14 inch micro. Aquarian makes a 14 inch bass drum head? Someone recommended Evans hydraulic, so I'm gonna try that before I decide whether to send it back and get the jungle.
Develop YOUR sound! Explore tunings, explore cymbals, even explore stick types. It takes more than a year to really dial it in. My first year I was playing I didn’t know yet what MY thing was. I started on a big kit with a lot of cymbals playing rock/pop stuff. Many years later I have MY own sound - 12/14/18 with one big ride, one big crash, and big (15”) hats. I use Calftone heads, no port on bass. I use Istanbul Agop cymbals. I play much more jazzy/funky stuff, rarely rock. My kit has a unique sound and it’s ideal for ME. You’ll get there. With drums, the journey to your sound takes time. You may start off by emulating favorite drummers, but eventually you will have your own ideas about what sounds good. Go with it. Don’t be flashy or try to show off chops, let it be natural. Develop your pocket, and the rest will come. Learn to TUNE well, tune tune tune. So many drummers are lost when it comes to tuning, it’s essential. Try different heads and a million tunings. It will happen!
@@DZNTZ thanks a lot. I’m a big passionate and I already know all types of sticks , tuning , cymbals , snare drum , all sizes , all sounds ( even everyday I learn more ) I almost know everything on drumming 😅 It’s maybe hard to believe but I swear. I’m in the process of improving myself
What does this have to do with space saving... it's the SOUND that we are after and i want something pervier that most others do not have. If somebody tries to market me something just becos its SMALLER, i wont buy it, cos its disgusting then. But this kind of sweaty hiphop and house-friendly jungle kit for jazzy dnb needs to have two snares, and you need to include in the review the proprietary sonor jungle snare that is around half as thick as regular snare, and had tambourine rattlers. If you want to save space, you throw the laptop outta the window and use ipad for arranging samples, and you throw out the beer case to save space in head and belly for more xo cognac.
