Congrats on the new purchase!! 
Welcome to this section and hope you will stay a while.
Mind telling where you bought your drums and how much? Any photos of your setup?

I am quite new here too.

Hey! I played on a Tama RhythmMate last night at The Pool, KL with Hardcandy. It was a fun gig, to say the least Didn't take pictures of the setup, but there will be photos up soon of the show.

I'm leaving for Hard Rock Cafe, for my soundcheck for my show tonight there, in about fifteen minutes. Will take pictures of the setup there this time, I promise. HAHA.

Hello welcome aboard.

Now you just need to slowly learn..and also save $$$ for better cymbals and drum heads. 

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Added on December 16, 2012, 4:41 pm

Neighbors? 

2 ways...Settle this gentlemanly and have a discussion with them.

Or

If you ain't that gentle man 

Just silence your kit...but it will sound bad IMO...and feel a bit different then the real deal.

>.<

Nope, depends on my sessions. Its usually a lot of shows in a row, then a few breaks here and there.

Here's the kit for tonight! It's a Japanese Yamaha. I think its a Birch Custom. Soundcheck just finished. Sounds killer. Remo heads on it. Can't wait to start playing.

Me and my wife decided to go with the Stagg DXK cymbal set. It's a brass set but it's clear and bright. We didn't wanna spend too much on our first set of cymbals. We don't know whether we are gonna crack it in the first few months

Hello fellow drummers!  Just a 16 year old self taught drummer, been playing drums for about 2 years and a half now and just wanted to share some of my drum covers. I posted a few weeks back, but i finally uploaded the covers on youtube. I'm using an electronic Yamaha DTXpress IV drumset.

Born of Osiris - Abstract Art Drum Cover (For anyone who likes metal, check this band out, they have some really complex drum beats)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxxARRV8EIU

System of A Down - Toxicity Drum Cover (I'm sure most people know this song, haha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJn98KcmI3I

Any constructive criticism is welcome! And happy drumming

Yup. Agree with subber. If u can afford Yamaha dtx, u can afford a good teacher. Learn the basics, get the foundation right. Till u r good enough to learn by ur own..

What's ur budget for a drumset? U wanna go for acoustic or electric drums? U see, I have a drummer and a guitarist friend. Very good in drumming and guitar playing but can't play drummania and guitar hero. They r totally diff thing.

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Eh I thought when record the sound engineer will do it?

Tell me what you guys think.    Am I doing it right?

I think a good player and good sound engineer will produce a great sound. They can complement each other.

A bad player will still be a bad player even with an excellent sound engineer, the sound engineer can make the drums sound good, but not the drummer - big difference there IMO.

A badly tuned drum can sound better with a good sound engineer.

I'm relatively bandless. HAHA. I do session work though.
I disagree. A good player still needs a good sound engineer. You don't see good players hiring bad sound engineers.

16" Byzance u can get from me, Rude china u can get from Bentley

Byzance doesn't come with packs unless the Benny Greb sand pack. Which comes with HH, crash and ride. We're probably looking at 3-4k.

oh, well best beginner pack for price i think Sabian B8 pack is good, meinl HCS pack is not bad too. The Byzance price range from 800-1k per cymbal. As for the Benny Greb cymbal pack, price can be confirmed once it arrives our shore. Tentatively it's priced ard 4k.

How much is your friend willing to spend on the drum set? and the cymbals?

I had that budget in mind when I was going about sourcing for a drum set. My suggestion will be PDP Z5 which I think you might be able to get for less than RM2k.
And then Stagg DXK cymbal set which I think would fit the budget nicely. Should be less than RM1k.

CAVEAT:But know that the shells are poplar and the cymbals are brass. In time as your friend progress, he/she will be thinking of changing the drum heads, changing the brass cymbals to bronze ones and upgrading the drum set.

I would have been happy with the Z5 and brass cymbals had I not learnt about poplar shells, birch shells, maple shells; and then there is bubinga and and some other obscure wood from some forsaken land far far away. I figured that in the future there will most probably be changing of drum heads and then replacing the cymbals. But the drum set stays. So it figures for me to get a better drum set. That was how I ended up spending above my budget and got the 5 piece PDP Concept Maple series.

My wife is very happy with the purchase. Our drum set at home sounded much better than the one she plays at the music centre where she goes for her drum lessons

Another factor for the purchase was that she fell in love with the white finishing of the drum set. It was the best looking white drum set out there LOL 

CAVEAT: I bought our drum set less than a month ago. You might want a second opinion from other drummers here who are more experienced.