Yamaha Crosstown Advanced Lightweight Hardware Review 

My first ever drum clinic at the Dolphin Hotel, Swansea, Wales, in 1985 Dave Mattacks was one of the drummers along side Ian Mosley and Micky Barker. It was for Yamaha drums. I'd only been playing a month or so, and I was gobsmacked! Seeing 3 fantastic drummer up close and personal was very a powerful experience. So great to see Dave still kicking it. Right at the end, he did a great Solo playing only with hands, no sticks! I remember that more than anything else about that night. Thanks for the memory Mr Mattacks.

Love to see..A BOOM STAND...AND A LIGHT WEIGHT DRUM SEAT😊

Yamaha needs to make a lightweight drum throne since that is typically the heaviest piece of hardware.

If yamaha could make a lightweight sturdy hydraulic drum throne, that would be the best!!!!!!!!

I love the hi-hat stand in particular. It's so simply engineered and beautiful. (In contrast, and perhaps ironically, I also use the F9 bass pedal, which is excessively engineered but also plays beautifully). The Crosstown stands work great for me. Terrific video. Thank you and cheers.

I swear by my Yamaha hardware, I don’t play their drums anymore but still use the hardware. These new aluminum stands really seem like a leap forward in the light weight hardware market, I’ll have to check them out. Thanks DCP for the video.

Two things: First, sell the HW3 pack with the FP7210 bass drum pedal. Second, please make a boom stand for this pack!

They kinda have the look of the Randall May marching drum stands.

Have been using Crosstown hardware with my PHX kit since September when it came out. Wonderful hardware and a game changer for gigs . . . THAT being said, one improvement I would make is the Thumbscrew size . . . Yamaha has made these little thumbscrews in their triple flange retro style (they have another name for it) . . . but when you are moving fast it is REALLY easy to pinch and break a blood vessel in your finger . . . I replaced them all with full size DW thumbscrews and it made set up so much better . . .

Glad to see a well known company getting the ball rolling on this idea. It is a huge need in the market. I'm getting older....and hardware bags weighing a ton just sucks.

Boom stands please!

This is the best lightweight hardware on the market!

Didn't Premier do some thing similar many years ago with utube stands. "Trilok came around 1976, with tripod bases, U-shaped hand-threatening legs, and nylon wear-resisting inserts." N.b. Yamaha partnered with Premier many years ago, hmmm...

I'm really tempted, but there needs to be a boom stand in this package.

I've got the DW ultralight hardware pack and don't have any problems with the cymbal stands or snare stand, but I feel like a lot of folks struggle with the flat based hi hat stand. I think this hi-hat stand is going to be wildly popular.

I do wish they had a polished design and that they sold the hardware without the feet so that I could use these on a rack to offset some of the additional weight.

Are those cymbal stands strong enough to hold a tom mount? If so I may get this.

You guys have a fantastic sense of humour (I mean 'humor' :)

Gibraltar made some Aluminium hardware in the 90s, I bought a load of it and it significantly lightened the hardware chest was I using at the time. However Aluminium being a soft metal and all, it wasn't long until the pipes started to buckle, especially when using multi clamps on them. My dad rounded off the inner part of the multi clamp to aid this, which worked. But the pipes still buckled around the tightening area. Not sure how long they made them for, they don't make them now whether it was because of lack of popularity or function. Always loved Yamaha drums and hardware, so I hope these are more to task as I am in the market for a lightweight hardware solution for my Bop kit.

That's why I love Yamaha Drums, innovation, reliability, quality and beauty of finishes and sounding perfectly. All for a good price. Thank's for having presented this hardware line with someone of Yamaha, it's really a good idea.

I was kind of hoping you’d go more in depth on the snare stand and travel bag as well

I'm surprised it took this long to come out with this lightweight hardware. Looks great!

That brushed aluminium surface of the pipes lends itself to a boom. When a boom stand comes along, I´ll be the first in line to buy a set.

The lack of a boom stand seems odd. If I were shopping for a new kit I'd find myself buying CS755's or CS665A's rather than this straight straight stand.

You have to gig a lot to realize how much better these are to get the job done

Where are we on the boom stand? It's been awhile.

I’ve never had flat based hardware blow over from outside gigs... I am a heavy hittef

This stuff id great and long overdue but I hate the fact that the tension on the Hi Hat can't be adjusted.

No memory locks on these stands?

is the hi-hat stand convertible to a 2-leg configuration for dbl bass drum pedal?

It looks brill as a pensioner any weight saving,is a bonus as I have been playing over 40yrs, and carrying back breaking stands, maybe you need to design an ultraweight drum set for the gigging drummer and, to fold into a carry case. hope you take notice will buy some of these stands as a new purchase, went to a jam today the weight of conventional stuff killing. Cheers great presentation.

Do the legs on the hi hat stand rotate to accommodate a double kick pedal?

Can you fit a slave pedal underneath the hi hat stand for double kick users?

I'm really wanting to buy this hardware pack. Can you please tell me if the Hi-Hat stand has an adjustment for the tension. If not, please tell me about the fixed tension,.... loose, tight, OK???

Great review. Thanks!

It's apparent that Mattacks does not like to be interviewed...

Does the Yamaha 740 tiered stacker match up with these stands?

Lol that music sounds like the overworld theme from spy fox 2

Marketing. No adjustment on hi hat. Takes the guess work out. Blind fold test please. Enjoyed…

beautiful and practical. but iron should be hard and tough.:D

It doesnt fold with a clamp?? (Tom clamp)

The most inovate and quality drum hardware, allways from YAMAHA.

This is not a review...it's someone from Yamaha telling us how great their product is.

can we clamp it?

Do you think its ok to add a clamp on the cymbal stand?

If it only had an Omni ball system it would be perfect

im sold, love it

Can you add info on max usable heights of these 3 stands. I have seen them at Uk Drum show but didnt have a tape measure . The rep on trhe booth said there was info on Yamaha Website but although they do show weights on the promo video there is no info about the height settings. I sit much higher than other drummers so knowing that these can replace my exisiting set up without compromising on positioning is important. If you have some in stock... can you do some quick measurements and post them.

Lighter than dw?

YAY!💗 💥 🎉 👏 😁

Do they make a boom stand?

If it were a boom stand they would have to make it heavier because the cymbol extended out on the boom would bring it over. So get to work Yamaha

Really nice hardware. But very dumb that Yamaha didn't make the HiHat stand tripod legs turn to accommodate slave pedals. 😥

Crosstown Hardware is a GAME CHANGER!!! Use it with my PHX kit . . . AND it's BACKWARD Compatible with OTHER Yamaha hardware so you can hybrid your hardware!!

Great hardware, only thing that maybe missing is arm at least in one of those two cymbal strands...otherwise excellent product!

Not having "swingable hi hat legs" to accommodate double bass drum pedals is a flunk, otherwise I like them.

Once again, Yamaha thinking outside the box, and using common sense. Flat base stands are useless because they're closer to the ground with less stability. Yamaha gives the best of both worlds, with lightweight practicality, and sturdiness, all under 18 lbs. All other companies have to get back to the drawing board if they want to compete with this product. Yamaha is reliability, durability and simplicity. They just came out with this hardware pack and they're already ALL sold out in every drum/music shop in my city. I'm ordering mine just in time for the holidays. Great job Yamaha and DCPNH

"Grow some legs"? Yeh, 3 of them.

Boom stand for gods sake

Cool concept, but Oh, so ugly. It looks like the stands I used to build with my dad's lathe and milling machine when I was a kid and couldn't afford to buy stands, but we had a source for scrape aluminum and it was so much easier to machine than steel.

Everyone knows Yamaha makes the best hardware. Has been for a good number of decades. So....this might be interesting. See how it holds up....

I've got news for you and Yamaha and all the other companies making cheaper gear to sell at higher prices....we are not wanting lightweight, we are wanting products that last. Lightweight is synonymous with gear that is going to fail which is the only reason why they are making it to increase profits!!! Hence, if quality steel stands last a lifetime, which they do, then how are they going to keep selling us more stands? They've already ruined the microphone stands with this cheap aluminum garbage!! Capitalism at its worst. I can't believe the posts here supporting this garbage!! No thanks, we will keep our steel stands that last a lifetime!! And, shame on you Drum Center of Portsmouth!! What you don't know is that you do work for them because if you don't promote their garbage aluminum stands, then you can't carry the rest of their products. My father is a renowned mechanical engineer, he says not only are aluminum stands junk for the most part but Yamaha went to the extremes to make theirs pure junk; using aluminum channel legs in lieu of aluminum tubing legs which are much, much, stronger. Aluminum channel twists and bends much easier than tubing.

My throne weighs 24lb...this entire set is lighter.