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Honestly, this is the best sounding DW kit I've ever heard...It's not "their" drummer, it's actually Denny Fongheiser but he was playing DW drums. This made me want a DW kit, and I bought a brand new one when I was 16...




[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqAU5VxFWs[/youtube_https]

Steve Holmes wrote:I'm curious: Can someone please link to the best sounding DW kit they can find on YT?

[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXo7xwqHSE[/youtube_https]

Steve Holmes wrote:I'm curious: Can someone please link to the best sounding DW kit they can find on YT?

There aren't too many, I think

Coincidently, this is my friend Kasper, sporting his DWs. They sound great. (Jump to 25 seconds in...)
[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM6P5V3ll44[/youtube_https]

And here, another great dane, Lars Daugaard. (Jump to 30 seconds in...)
[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQAlkEzoTjo[/youtube_https]

I guess I feel like a lot of people here, I just don't hear the "big deal" with DW drums. I mean, they are a good company that cares about their product....I just haven't heard a DW kit where I was like "woah!! great sound!". I don't have a problem with the snare drums I've heard - even in the clips above. As a matter of fact, I really liked Peart's (sig??) snare a lot...until I checked out the cost! I don't like the toms whatsoever...always kind of thuddy and dark and not full of life. Very controlled sound - which is a really usable sound I guess...but I dont like it. Drums sounds are so subjective, so whatever. I'm sure Virgil will sound just fine with his. He hits really hard - so his sound cuts out pretty fast anyways...it's not he has this open "ahhhhhhhhhh" sound ...the DW's will suit him fine.

Chester gets a decent sound. The floor toms sound good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCpfqeVDoRs[/youtube]

The toms in the Chester vid aren't really doing it for me (to put it lightly) but they sound good in the Danser vids.

^^It's the snare that sounds like crap to me...Not sure how anyone could think that's a professional sound.

It's funny, on Virgil's Facebook page, some have questioned if he'll do alright with DW pedals, implying that he is stepping down from the Eliminators.

While I play Eliminators myself, I am sure he'll do absolutely demonstrably fine on DW pedals. Back in 1997 he was playing the old Premier P277 pedals. Those worked fine:
(The crescendo intro roll and the insane fill mirroring the programmed theme at 0:41 get me every time. Even 17 years later - not to mention the
11/16 db pattern in Origin and The End)

[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN8AtfzCFY[/youtube_https]

^I've always love those performance clips...those drums sound great. And people would be mistaken if they assumed that the "gear" makes Virgil the drummer he is...

Ezequiel always sound great...

[youtube_https]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-46AXdFQI[/youtube_https]