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Photo Credit: Anna <strong>Web</strong>ber<br />
PDP<br />
Concept Series<br />
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by Dave Elitch<br />
Since I live only 45 minutes from the <strong>Drum</strong> <strong>Workshop</strong> factory, I usually find myself paying a visit to DW at least once a week. It’s<br />
also a well-known fact that I’m a bit of a gear nerd and I have a growing collection of drum equipment, which is an open invitation<br />
for my fellow drummers to joke about my apartment looking like an episode of Hoarders! So, when DW asked me to check out these<br />
two new Concept Series kits, I simply couldn’t say no.<br />
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I had the sound stage at <strong>Drum</strong> Channel at my disposal for this<br />
little experiment and I’ve had the good fortune of doing quite a<br />
bit of work in there, so I’m pretty familiar with the way the room<br />
sounds. So, acoustics weren’t going to be a wild card. Plus, they<br />
wanted me to sample a birch kit and a maple kit, so a familiar<br />
setting was an advantage.<br />
DW hadn’t told me anything about either of these kits prior to<br />
pointing to a pallet of boxes and saying, “Have fun!” I had no<br />
idea what I was getting myself into. I was wondering, “What are<br />
the lugs going to look like? What sizes? FinishPly or lacquer?”<br />
I ripped into the boxes like a kid with a new toy. I could see<br />
that some of the drums were completely assembled and others<br />
needed some light assembly before I could completely set up<br />
the kit. <strong>Drum</strong> Channel always has some DW hardware lying<br />
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around, so I paired up these kits with a selection of DW 9000<br />
Series hardware and pedals.<br />
The first thing I noticed was that DW really stepped-up the features<br />
and build quality on these new kits. I saw a bunch of things from<br />
my Custom Shop DW kits. Stuff like: die cast claw hooks, MAG<br />
throw-off on the snare, and these new lugs looked oddly familiar.<br />
The DW folks told me that they were designed for Performance<br />
Series snare drums and that they moved them over to PDP for the<br />
new series. I also noticed a DW <strong>Drum</strong>s logo on the new badges;<br />
that says a lot. To me, it means that DW has really put some pro<br />
features into these more affordable kits. I have a thriving teaching<br />
studio and I know my students will be happy to know they can<br />
get their hands on a DW-style kit early on and can still graduate<br />
to a DW kit when the time is right. It’s a win-win for everyone!
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