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Little Guppy
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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Location: MILWAUKEE
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 Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: These PDP X7's ROCK! |
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Just got my new PDP X7 shell pack! I was at Guitar Center hemming and hawing over Pearl VSX's and Gretsch catalinas. I spotted a stack of Orangey sparkle drums. Well, I set em up threw a quick tuning on them and was immediately impressed! I compared them to pdp's birch drums, and these poplar shells had all the attack and low end presence I had been looking for in birch drums! Yup. I bought 'em and got them home, changed the heads out to EVANS EC2's on all the toms and an EMAD on the kick. Oh man, these drums sound like sets costing hundreds more! The kick is amazing!  The build quality is flawless! I believe that these drums are by far the best sounding for the money IMO. anyone else own one of these? What do you think?? 
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sfauts
Fierce Wolf
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Essex, England
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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How many drum sets have you bought in the past 3 weeks man???
I'm personally not a fan of poplar shells.
I had them on my Pearl Export and whilst they were fairly good, they just don't compare to pure Naple or Maple/Walnut (Like my Saturns)
Certainly do a job but along with basswood, they don't cut it in large gig/recording situation - for rock certainly.
Seriously though - had you not of bought these 3 kits could you not of purchased a single pro standard kit? |
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Little Guppy
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| sfauts wrote: | How many drum sets have you bought in the past 3 weeks man???
I'm personally not a fan of poplar shells.
I had them on my Pearl Export and whilst they were fairly good, they just don't compare to pure Naple or Maple/Walnut (Like my Saturns)
Certainly do a job but along with basswood, they don't cut it in large gig/recording situation - for rock certainly.
Seriously though - had you not of bought these 3 kits could you not of purchased a single pro standard kit? |
While I had been looking at purchasing a Pearl VSX kit initially, I had an oppurtunity to do some research in the interim. To me, This kit (PDP X7) was more than enough drumset for my needs. with new heads and proper tuning, these poplar shelled drums sounded every bit as good as some of the other high buck kits I had the op to audition. btw: this is the only kit I have purchased. I opted for it, because of the outstanding sound characteristics as well as the flawless build quality and thirdly value. As I said in earlier posts, I am on a budget. Until I can afford to make my dream of owning my Drum Workshop collectors series shelly, these pdp's will more than suffice. Question, Why do you own a Saturn hybrid mix shell kit when the Orion Maple kit is out there? No offense..Just wondering 
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Fierce Wolf
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Essex, England
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Hbdrummer wrote: | | sfauts wrote: | How many drum sets have you bought in the past 3 weeks man???
I'm personally not a fan of poplar shells.
I had them on my Pearl Export and whilst they were fairly good, they just don't compare to pure Naple or Maple/Walnut (Like my Saturns)
Certainly do a job but along with basswood, they don't cut it in large gig/recording situation - for rock certainly.
Seriously though - had you not of bought these 3 kits could you not of purchased a single pro standard kit? |
While I had been looking at purchasing a Pearl VSX kit initially, I had an oppurtunity to do some research in the interim. To me, This kit (PDP X7) was more than enough drumset for my needs. with new heads and proper tuning, these poplar shelled drums sounded every bit as good as some of the other high buck kits I had the op to audition. btw: this is the only kit I have purchased. I opted for it, because of the outstanding sound characteristics as well as the flawless build quality and thirdly value. As I said in earlier posts, I am on a budget. Until I can afford to make my dream of owning my Drum Workshop collectors series shelly, these pdp's will more than suffice. Question, Why do you own a Saturn hybrid mix shell kit when the Orion Maple kit is out there? No offense..Just wondering [img]http://s237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/X7drums/[/img] |
Ooh..
From your other posts it sounded like you'd actually purchased the Visions. I thought you'd actually bought 2 or 3 sets in the past 2 weeks!
Moving to the Orion question...
You'll find that most of the touring drummers these days are choosing the Saturns over the Orion series as they have such a fuller sound.
It's 4-ply Maple and 2 inner plys of Walnut which gives it one hell of a bottom end as well as the fantastic attack and warmth of Maple.
The Orion series look really nice, but in all honesty, they don't sound as good as the Saturns, that's why I bought my babies! |
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Little Guppy
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Cool! sounds like you got your sound dialed
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Little Guppy
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Having trouble getting pics posted from photobucket to this thread! any suggestions??
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Little Guppy
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Little Guppy
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[im g] I think this may have worked.[/img]
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Fierce Wolf
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Nice looking kit!
A few drummers on here have that finish, it's certainly noticeable. |
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shoebag
Ferret
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Location: Bristol, UK
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: |
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amen man join the X7 club!, you're member no.2 on here (i think??) along with me as founding member. as far as i know no-one else has one but speak up now if you do!
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kuniggety
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Little Guppy
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| kuniggety wrote: | | I think the finish is tacky... yet kind of cool at the same time. Looks nice man. |
I know dude! That's why I chose it!
I've never owned an orange sparkle anything! looks amazing under stage lighting! Thanks for the props! Hey Shoe, What did you choose for heads on your tubs??
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shoebag
Ferret
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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the finish looks a lot better than the pictures belive me, all my friends are like woah! when they see it lol. i have stock heads for now, might upgrade...
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doug denada
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Joined: 30 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: New X7 club member! |
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Yep I got the orange crush sparkle and love them! There are a lot PDP haters out there. They can all.... These are awesome drums and we all know about the price. They are becoming a cult ledgend I think!  |
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