Reviews

  British Drum Company 13x7” Super 7 Purpleheart Snare Drum   A new snare drum from the British Drum Company.   13x7 has always been one of my personal favourite sizes for snare drums. Many

Sabian Anthology Cymbals - I love cymbals like this. There’s something about a well thought out, well made cymbal that makes you - or should make you - think differently when you play. That’s always how it’s

Those outside of the UK may not have heard of the Bristol Drum Company, so to give you a little background, the city of Bristol is in the south west of England about 120 miles

Gewa G5 Studio 5 In mid-2017, I was in Germany at Gewa HQ and on the last day there, just before we were going to leave, we were shown a small black box which turned

Gretsch Ash Soan Signature Snare Drum If you’ve not heard of Ash Soan at this point, you’re probably best off just staying under that rock you’ve been living under. There are many things about Ash

Matt Halpern Snare Drum   Things I know about Matt Halpern: he plays with Periphery; he plays Meinl cymbals; he hits hard; and, having walked past him at a drum show once, he’s quite a

Zildjian Raw Crashes I looked up the term ‘cymbal’ on Google and it said ‘a musical instrument consisting of a slightly concave round brass plate which is either struck against another one or struck with

Paiste Masters Thin Cymbals These are, in short, really nice cymbals. I thought I’d just get that out of the way first. Paiste’s Masters Thin cymbals are, as the name suggests, thin models but in [largely]

Vic Firth Rute-X ‘The feel and response of a drumstick with the volume control and alternative sounds of a rod product.’ I think if I could just leave the review at that sentiment from the