Nice Buys?

[Leprechauns1021]

This is what I have in my cart from musicians friend. Im in dire need of new additions, so ive decided to make a cart full of things I wish to have in the future. Im not gonna buy all this at once (im kinda broke right now anyways), but I hope to soon.

Aquarian Superkick II Drum Head- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Aquarian-Super-Kick-II-Drumhead?sku=449350
Aquarian Response II Standard Drumhead pack- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Aquarian-Response-2-Standard-Drumhead-Pack?sku=449359
Sabian AAX Stage Hats 13"- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Sabian-AAX-Series-Stage-Hi-Hats?sku=441315
Zildjian A Series Ping Ride 20" - http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Zildjian-A-Series-Ping-Ride-Cymbal?sku=443834
Zildjian A series Splash 10"- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Zildjian-A-Series-Splash-Cymbal?sku=443839
Zildjian K Custom Dark Crash Cymbal 16"- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Zildjian-K-Custom-Dark-Crash-Cymbal?sku=441202
Sabian AAXplosion Crash 18"- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Sabian-AAX-Series-Studio-Crash-Cymbal?sku=441306
Wuhan China Cymbal 20"- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Wuhan-China-Cymbal?sku=442700
Remo Practice Pad w/stand- http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Remo-Practice-Pad-with-Stand?sku=442714

All this comes out to about $1,150.00. SO what do you guys think? Any suggestions are welome. My set has been posted before so you can see what I'm working with right now. Ive been playing about 4 years and I have a crash a ride and hi hats as my only cymbals. Im working with the minimum here. I play all times of music, I like to diversify :)
Specs Anways

Yamaha Ride 20"
Yamaha Hats
Sabian AAXplosion 17"Crash
DW Double Pedal
Stock Heads
Latin Percussion Beauty Cowbell

Thanks alot guys.

[abandonthetruth]

My only suggestion would be to not order cymbals off the internet, you might get it, .. and it might sound like garbage, .. try the cymbals out yourself, and buy them when you can hear them all together. That and Wuhan chinas sound like assssssshole

[Leprechauns1021]

I would but the thing about my local music store is, they have display cymbals that they have that you can try out, then if you want to buy it they order it off of musiciansfriend and get it to you :rolleyes:
So i just decided to cut out the middle man. Ive heard all the equipment before, so im not just pulling all of this outta my ***.

And what do you suggest for China?

[abandonthetruth]

Well, .. you wont find a china for that price, .. but If your looking for something trashy and dark, look into the K's, ... if your looking for brighter and a little more musicality, I would personally go for the Zildjian Oriental china trash, .. i have 1, .. looking to reaplce my wuhan wiht another.


EDIT: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Zildjian-Oriental-China-Trash?sku=441425 ... this one

[mysticalyeti]

Hmm..

My suggestion: use massmusic

lolz

[abandonthetruth]

I wonder what the price difference woudl be ... i'm not gunna work it out, but i think you'd end up saving a couple hundred overall which you coudl throw back into a better china...

[Leprechauns1021]

I shall look into mass music

EDIT: I looked....they dont have alot of options there. They dont even have the AAXplosion......

EDIT #2: Im a dumbass

[abandonthetruth]

Only downside to Massmusic, is that all your heads would be bought seperately, cause they dont sell them in packs.

[mysticalyeti]

Er, yes they do have the AAxplosion...

MF seems to be matching them in price as far as Sabian/Zildjian goes now...

[Leprechauns1021]

Er, yes they do have the AAxplosion...

MF seems to be matching them in price as far as Sabian/Zildjian goes now...

See edit #2. And ya, they seem to have the same prices

[abandonthetruth]

Weird, .. MM always beat MF, ...


But, .. MM is MUCH MUCH more reliable.

[Leprechauns1021]

How so?

[mysticalyeti]

Well, massmusic still destroys MF's Paiste prices, if you click the little dot at the bottom of the screen to get the page with all the prices.

I can't speak greatly on either's overall reliability, but I will say that Andy at massmusic is a great guy, he even has an account here.

[abandonthetruth]

Yea MM A+++++ customer service. Thats why I would go from MM even is its an identical price

[Leprechauns1021]

Ah, well ive ordered off of MF, and i got my order on time, so theres really nothing more I could have asked for.

[Disgrace]

When my last order from MF came in, it was half open, and I had a cymbal stand laying on top of my brand new heads.

[ofDooM]

22" Bosphorus Traditional China....

[MNdrummer21]

Looks solid dude! I say order it!

[Zildjian]

looks good. I like that your getting the aquarians ( I would go for the SK-1 but whatever)

But looks good. Good luck with getting the cash

[Leprechauns1021]

lol i will need the luck. Ive got about $250 right now, and my job pays about $9 an hour (pretty good for a ****ing teenager), so i have a while to go. But hey, b-day money FTW!!!!

[We_Love_Lime]

That's a lot of ****, I just saw all the links, and realised, that's a lot of stuff to read.

I'd just buy one hella big expensive thing for 1,500.
Like a Winnabego.

[Leprechauns1021]

I already have 3 winnabegoes.

[othankheavenfor311]

dont get the remo practice pad... get a rubber pad... the remo ones suck!!! i used to have one

[eirlisdrumer]

i dont see a problem with ordering them offline, i order all mystuff offline, its usually cheaper, plus if you dont like it, send it back. just dont play the cymbals very heavily, otherwise youll get marks on them and they wont take em, ive sent cymbals i didnt like back numerous times. theres no problem, you dont have to pay shipping to send it back so what do you have to lose?

[leftydrummer]

dont get the remo practice pad... get a rubber pad... the remo ones suck!!! i used to have one


THATS RIGHT!!!!!!! GET THE VIC FIRTH PRActice pads =)

[Leprechauns1021]

okkk ive narrowed the things down to what im going to get in this installment. So far im going to get the:

Superkick Head
Aquarian Heads
Cowbell Mount
Practice Pad

Anyone have any other suggestions?

[Aaron]

Brushes and some Timpani Mallets

[Leprechauns1021]

nah

[Aaron]

yeh!

[Leprechauns1021]

meh...

[Cocaberry]

Instead of buying all that stuff you might as well save up some more money to buy a pro kit, if you don't have one already. After that, then you should buy cymbals and all the little extras.

[Leprechauns1021]

My current kit is just fine. Theres nothing really wrong with it, and a pro kit will just be a small upgrade if anything even noticeable.

[We_Love_Lime]

What are you running now Lepre?

[Leprechauns1021]

Im running the show now!

[green242]

I got offered that a series ping ride for $189 at my local music shop. And the stage hats were $250. And that's crappy canadian prices.