TAMA Starclassic Walnut/Birch Lacquer 4-piece Shell Pack Demo 

He's unbelievable

Not to mention great at doing the reviews. Top notch. Very thorough. I love how he demos sounds with and without snares engaged.

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heard him on Steve Thorne's crimes and reasons first time. Great drumming and sound

He's great, but he's not reviewing, he's selling. Everything is awesome.

@@TuplexGaming I agree, they're not reviewing, they're selling. I find Drummer's review does much better reviews, impartial and honest... but hey, I enjoy anyway watching Nick play, he's a great drummer...

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YEP YEP YEP!! No doubt!

Yeah man, I had TAMA Rockstar-DX Misty Chrome for 32 years, then upgraded to this TAMA Starclassic Walnut/Birch with Piano Black finish 2 years ago and I matched it up with a 6.5x14 snare with this Phantasm Oyster Laquer and it’s awesome! This is a shoutout to my parents when I was 6 I got a little Muppets drumset and the shells had a red and blue shell and this finish really reminded me of where I started!

RIGHT!!!!

That’s a nice floor tom 👍🏽

What finish was it?

I got it too in the Piano Black baby!!

@@SoonerAce311 charcoal onyx. Very pretty buts it's just a wrap

I feel that the piano black is good for any style. You can place it next to a Grand Piano for lounge Jazz or pop, or can put it on stage for rock/funk/fusion/punk all that and just enjoy as it becomes whatever you need it to be. I got the 3 up and 2 down and 22x16 Bass Drum. Just got the double tom mount, because it’s so heavy duty and this video really inspired me to get the double tom mount again! I also just got the single tom mount as well, because I’ve had one tom up for 20 years. I was also inspired and “sold” by this video as well like you were! My first real set was Tama back in 87’ and I was checking out other brands to maybe buy like Yamaha, Ludwig (I’ve had my Zeppelin snare 6.5x14 Supraphonic forever and will keep it forever) Mapex, Pearl and DW. I’m going to get the snare that is the Walnut/Birch nice wood shell to compliment the set and get the Phantasm Oyster Laquer! I love that color on a snare and as we see here in this great video with Nick, everything is Phantasm Oyster Laquer EXCEPT the snare to promote the 4-piece toms and bass drum pack.

@Billy Martinek Jr I like how passionate you are about it. I was the same way when I got mine, I just played the kit for a little while right before seeing this lol. I love the kit, I only have the 3 piece (rack,floor,kick), but I desperately want to get a matching 18x16 floor Tom but you have to special request them through Sweetwater for the right wood and finish etc etc. I also really want to see if they ever release a 13" snare in the walnut birch. I have the 13x7 G Maple snare and I love it. I think the walnut/birch could bring really cool sounds to a similar sized snare.

Nice! I got the 5 piece too and added the 8 rack tom and 18 floor Tom in piano black Laquer! I love the White Tama on the black drum head on the black finish! I also going to match the set with the 6.5x14 snare walnut/birch with the phantasm oyster too cause I do love that color and our hybrid wood!! Walnut and birch together is badass!!

Right???

They also show you what the room mics sound like.

Bubinga wood is just so difficult to harvest and mass produce these days so I totally understand why it's only available on the super expensive Star series of Tama now. But hey, walnut definitely holds up to bubinga. Very solid tone-wood.

The walnut/birch Saturn was a special edition (SE). Mapex made walnut/maple Saturn kits before these SE kits and still makes them. I have a Saturn III kit, the sound is big, deep, fat, and so musical. It has less attack than this Tama kit, but much more tone imo.

Sorry bro, but you're hiding behind fake YT account. You are just another Mapex promoter and salesman.

@@aleksandarmarkovic2790 never been a salesman my entire life. That's odd that you would say my account is fictional and I'm a salesman. I'm a drummer since 1983 who's owned 7 different kits and happen to love my saturn kit. Mapex is not the mapex of the 90s, they have their feet under them now and make killer drums!

@@aleksandarmarkovic2790 if I was a Mapex salesman I would be proud and would use a mapex RU-vid account. I've got to say, your comment was the oddest comment anyone has ever left me. Lol

It's been between the Starclassic BB and the Mapex Saturn's (also Gtetsch Renown kinda) for me for years. I finally picked up the BB kit, but only because of the deal I found. Although I am a tiny bit partial to the Tama's, the two are pretty much even-steven. Incidentally, I play a Mapex Black Panther snare with my Tama Starclassic shell pack. They really compliment each other!. If I find some smokin deal on a set of Saturn V's, I'm runnin right up in it!

Yep. Same here. Clear pinstripes for me. They may be evans g2 but i thi k they are a lower quality g2

@@bruceperkins2921 I think they're just regular G2's. I've tried (store bought) G2's and EC2's and I think the EC2's just work better for these Starclassic Performer kits, because, I dunno why

@@eastbaymauiboy The G2's are USA produced, exactly the same as all standard USA produced G2's. Produced in the Evans USA factory, same production specifications, just with the Tama brand name on them.

Same. Thoughts so far?

@SuperPapajew love to hear that. Mine ships this week. Got the 5-piece. Until this set I’ve always felt my kits were just “until I can get a better one” but now finally feels like “the better one”

Dw way better than this thats who

Many of the mega-kick drummers out there use 14-16" drums; John Bonham being the classic example, but also folks such as Thomas Lang. The 16" kick allows for a bigger punch and attack, a fatter sounding kick, and a much faster response time in both heads. I find it's easier to get a huge low tuning and resonant high tuning with a 16" or 14" kick drum. Also it's easy to play faster doubles and triples on these size kicks whereas an 18" or bigger width takes longer for each head to react creating an almost negative rebound. Of course at the end of the day each person is going to have their own individual preference, and I wouldn't look down on anyone for having different taste from myself. I have no idea as to what makes you choose an 18" over a 16", but I'm sure you have good reason to.

Don't be like me and buy exactly this and try to aquire the 14.....

Why didn’t you just buy the 5 pc shell pack to begin with?

Because of my American impatience and drove an hour so I could have it now instead of ordering online. I usually play a 4 piece anyway but now kinda want the extra tom

I have the bbs and they are by far my favorite drums I’ve ever played or owned. The walnut birch I’ve played in the store and they are awesome as well. I prefer the bb but these are amazing drums for the money. This video I agree the rack toms don’t sound as good. It seems they didn’t tune it as well. If you check out the drumcenter of Portsmouth video comparing the wbs to the bb’s that video gives a much better representation of both drums. But I agree they should’ve tuned the rack toms better in this video. They definitly don’t sound that choked usually.

I don't think the 10" is choked, in my opinion it's just out of tune, and even like that sounds absolutely beautiful.

Ludwig had some wild finishes back then. I remember looking at the samples that my local drum store had there was so many to chose from. And you had Vista lites and the God awful Butcher Block. Oh God was that hideous. I had friends that had all 3. I had White Marine Pearl (vintage) and they had Walnut shells. I am so glad Tama made the Walnut/Birch. I've been waiting over 40 years to find that sound in a drum again.

I just realized your name was Bill Martin. I had a friend named Bill Martin who was a drummer back then. You from Flint Michigan?.

The walnut birch starclassic is not the same price as the maple.. you probably know this 3yrs later, but yea

adam brown I have a Rockstar bass drum that refuses to sound good no matter the tuning or heads. I think basswood probably sucks for drum wood?

@@justinlee2268 Mine were 100% maple.

adam brown I guess that was your custom order. All the research I did when I bought the drum last year said Rockstars were basswood.

@@justinlee2268 I'm not positive on the date. It was late 80's to mid 90s. 24" kick, 14", 15" rack toms, 16", 18" floor toms. 6.5×14" snare. Had a white rap. Photos are long since lost. In all it was about $7,000 at the time. I sold it all for $600.

This is my only issue with the toms. They sound wonderful, but they're missing that attack and clarity in most of the videos I've watched on this kit. Does the 1-ply make a big difference with those?

@@colinchang1543 At least with my Tama Silverstar birch drums the difference was pretty big. The toms came stock with clear 1-ply heads and when i switched to clear G2 they became noticably quieter and less cutting in the band mix, kind of tame sounding. With the 1-plys they sounded actually quite thunderous. I believe it is due to the pre-EQ'd quality of birch.

Then again my current PDP Concept Maples with 1-plys on toms felt very out-of-control, lots of overtones. I would love to switch back to Tama at some point. I wanted a mid-tier maple kit but Superstar Classics weren't available in Europe at that time so i ended up going PDP.

@@seitsen I really need to get to a store and listen first hand, cause I like the "pre-EQ'd" sound, the hardware is amazing and there's so many configurations. Would hate for a choice of heads to determine the kit. It's just weird that most of the videos I've watched, sound so muffled, but then everyone goes on to say how crisp and articulate they sound.

@@colinchang1543 To me, in all the videos of the Starclassics that I've watched, the drums sound choked. Very little sustain.

All the way. Bass drum mounts are so much better. You mute the bass drum anyway..most of the time

Last video I watched of his was for a DW MDD single pedal. He totally sold me on it. I’m broke now. But the pedal is exactly as he said it was. It’s hard to buy stuff when all you have is a photo and some phoney corporate blurb. And I couldn’t find anywhere I could try it out. Nick deffo knows his stuff tho and can really play too. So I trust his judgement.

He makes it look so easy.