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Screw flying cars. This is real progress.

I only have a 2 channel interface. Is using an audio mixer enough?

Waste of money.

Mapex does make some nice stuff, but I’m partial to Gretsch. And the Catalina Club kits are another bang for your Buck kit. I’ve been gigging on a 2009 Catalina Club Mod kit for three years now, and they still sound amazing and are holding up fine. I also got them second hand, so the quality is definitely there.

Great video man. I'd love to learn also about the acoustic treatment and that kind of stuff.

appreciate the unbiased endorsement. mapex should too. two things: those are Evans g2 clears, not coated. you literally cannot get a veneer like that, that doesn't have a seam. i have a $6000 set of dws..... there's a seam on every tom.

Nice drum set, bro. Got the same exact one.

Hated breaking your satisfying 123 subs, but I had to help you!

dude, you didn’t even build anything. this video should have been titled “shit i like to buy”.

Thank you mate . Cheers and good luck!

Wow! This is very helpful, especially because I'm seriously considering building my own. Thank you for this great informative video 🤗🥁😉👋

IMO the Mac mini is the ultimate home studio computer. And you can find the M2 pro 512/16gb for a little over a thousand.

I played one of these in a drum shop, i have to say that it sounded phenomenal sitting behind those drums and playing, the sound is just glorious, and you feel inspired to play them, they are so much fun. BUT when they are Mic'd Up and what you hear coming through the front house, sounds awful to my ears. Just too boomy and no stick definition in my honest opinion. As for virgin bass drums, i have never understood why people prefer that kind of setup and their toms hanging off cymbal stands. It's just more fiddling around and time to setup and dismantle. And it is so unstable. If you have ever seen this setup on a portable wooden stage when watching a band..there is a good chance you will see the two rack toms smashing into each other and OR tipping over with the stand and cymbal crashing on the ground too. I have seen this happen a couple of times. And for all the people that say they prefer virgin bass drums because they have better tone, that is RUBBISH because n0-1. There is NOOOO audible difference. And n0-2, all of the people who use this lame reason have some form of dampening in the bass drum anyway. The only reason this type of setup became popular is purely because of Aesthetic reasons, people think it looks Cooler and then everyone jumps on the bandwagon and follows like sheep. So of course most manufacturer's will give the masses what they want, regardless of it being just a FAD. Just my opinion :)

Great video! some really helpful info here

any studio monitors will do with some closed back headphones for tracking

i recommend at least learning pro tools to make you versatile same with ableton and is great for live use but protools is abit janky cubase and logic are my 2 favs for laptop workflow pro tools is better with a mouse but cubase is great with a trackpad so cubase is my fav for on the go cakewalk is good for free but will soon be made a payed licence so maybe avoid unless u really like it

for beginers the audient evo 16 its way cheeper than both of these interfaces with all the features plus smart gain which sets your levels by pressing a button then going to the kit and smashing the shit out of it, your levels will never clip again with this interface

tourtex is good for stands nd cables

id say just get as many good mics as you can because you need that separation in a mix once you get abit more advanced

Thanks, really useful review!

Small hack from Finland. Buy those tight gardening gloves. The ones that have a rubber palms and fingers. It gives whole lot more of a grip and a pair is maybe seven bucks. :D

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Congrats! I bought that same set 3 years ago and I've record songs with it. I've had professional players say it's amazing, sounds great and that in the recordings sounds like a $5K set. and, I love mine. I just Change the heads to REMO Pinstrips and change to the bottom heads to REMO Ambassador Resos and just sounds unbelievably awesome!

Love this config. Would love to find it with a 20 in kick!

im pretty sure that seam line is the wood itself so theres no getting around it

But i like my nuts 😅

Mapex are awesome, I've owned 1 kit. Congrats on the armory series, I love that snare also!

I use gloves with stick grip. Gloves don’t really add ‘grip’ I use gloves because of very sweaty hands The tape is to improve grip between glove & stick I pretty much couldn’t use gloves without stick tape Sounds odd I’m sure, but you’ll see plenty of other glove wearing drummers also use stick ‘tape’ too 👍

Every drummer’s hands are different.

is there a way to put a hole in the reso head ?

Idk why your opening sound check reminded me of a prophecy by asking Alexandria. Nice dude

I’ve always been a PDP guy. I went with the CM exotic cause it had the virgin kick. But I have watched probably dang near every video on the Armory kit, and was even considering getting one as a second kit. In my opinion I think the two are neck and neck honestly. I believe someone would be happy with either choice. Both kits offer ,in my opinion high end quality at an affordable price point.

I just ordered this kit and was wondering if the tom arm mounts are included? I ordered some as well just figuring no hardware was gonna be included lmaoo.

sweet kit!

I own a yamaha custom birch, and i got to say that the armory looks and sounds amazing!

im so glad i got mine a few years ago, i got the desert dune, and just got an addon 18" that im setting up, i got some emperors on them and i also have a steel hammered mapex snare, sounds fantastic, truely a professional kit.

I bought the mapex 700 dual Tom mount stand it makes the toms way more stable. I can then run my ten and twelve between the hi hats and bass drum.

I absolutely love all the Mapex lines. From the M series, the Mars, Armory, Saturn V Studioease.... I haven't gotten a chance to play the Black Panther kit. But I love each series. The Mapex Venus series i put a finish on them, and wrapped all the toms and bass drum. Sold it for twice what I paid. The M series kit already had an amazing wrap and sound, the Armory kit sounds amazing in it's own right and by far my favorite is the Mapex Saturn V Studioease kit. It looks amazing, sounds like a professional kit and even in the studio very little tuning had to be done to get the sound I wanted. Between the M series, Armory, and Saturn V I used the Chris Adler snare. I'll probably keep that snare for as long as I'm playing. Mapex has made perfect quality drums at affordable price points. Keep up the great work mapex!!!!

Black Armory hardware around my kit.

If i wasnt such an evans drum head guy i would have used the stock set that came with my Saturn V kit. I love Mapex and the finshes.

I disagree about the tom mounts being sketchy. I have no problems with mine what so ever. You just do not know how to set them up with your stands correctly. You will have the same problem with any stand mounting system if not set up correctly. It is all about physics and weight distribution. Pay attention with how the mount sits over the stand legs. One of the legs should be positioned almost directly under or directly under the mount.

The Armory kits can't be beat! Not only for the price, but the overall quality and tone of the drums. Mapex is such an underrated company. As for your cons. When using the mounted tom arms with any manufacturer, you have to make sure the weight of whatever you're mounting, whether it be a tom, another cymbal, etc. is centered over one of the legs on your cymbal stand. Another way to remedy this is to buy either a combination stand or double tom stand. Tama's are rock solid and they make very affordable ones! The seam in the drum is completely normal. Whether you're paying $1000 for a kit, or $5K. If it's a veneer, there's going to be a seam! Only way you won't see some kind of seam is if the shells are lacquered and not stained, like yours, or wrapped. I love my Armory kit and wouldn't trade it for anything! One suggestion if you want to add the second tom back into your set up? I'd get the double tom stand and place it right where you have the tom and snare mounted. Then I'd mount the snare off to the side of the hi-hat. Just a suggestion. Always good to explore different set ups until you're completely comfortable!

Looks and sounds great! Happy Drumming!!! EDIT: Also, love the Zildjians!

Good to see you're still happy with the Armory as well. 👍 I purchased a 6-piece Armory kit with the Tomahawk snare in 2015 shortly after they were released. I opted for the "StudioEase Fast" version with the shallow toms in the original Transparent Walnut color which I still like. At that time they were an even better deal at $899! But I ended up getting these brand new for just under $750 when the store offered a site-wide discount coupon. 😊 SCORE! I later added a matching 9x13 rack tom for $159 when the store had another discount coupon...the kit had come with 7x10 and 8x12 rack toms. With the money saved I put a new set of American made Remo heads on it. But since then I've had all types of heads on it...Remo Ambassadors/Emperor/Fiberskyns, Evans G2 & UV1, Aquarians, etc. They have all sounded good in their own way and always tuned up with no issues. I even found another matching and separate 22" bass drum for it on eBay for $180 and cut it down to 10" deep and cut new matching bearing edges on it and drilled new holes for the batter side lugs. I also added a vintage-style single-tom rail mount bracket and ride cymbal arm bracket/mount to it. I wanted a lighter and more compact BD and setup for gigs in small/tight venues with 1-up/1-down configuration and no need to carry a separate cymbal and tom stand for the rack tom and my 22" jazz ride. I still have it and play it regularly. It's held up extremely well and has been versatile for recording every genre I've needed it to. Keep enjoying your Armory. It's a tough kit to beat.😊

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Great video man! I've got the Armory kit with two kick drums in black dawn since December 2021! I love it! I use the EVANS heads like you but EMAD for the kicks. I love the mount of the toms. I use a Gibraltar gcs-450c rack and it just fits perfect! No problems with the clamps🤘🤘🤘

5:30 I think this problem is related to the stand that you're using (or just the way that you set up that stand, the position of the tripod's legs in relation to the drums, how do other things mounted on the stand affect the center of gravity, etc...) more than the clamps and the drums themselves. I've encountered these a couple of times working as a tech, and I know they're a bit on the heavier side. It means the wood is dense and the shell hardware is well built, but it also means the toms need heavy stands with large enough tubes and precise positioning to not move in a bothersome way. Edit: I saw the first video in which the full kit set up with both the toms is depicted. Now it's clear as day to me: it's because the stand's legs were not open wide enough for it to be sufficiently stable. Try opening the legs AT LEAST until they make a 45º with the floor (a little more doesn't hurt, you can just eyeball it) Also, putting one of the tripod's legs right under the tom / the heaviest thing on that stand that's extended out can do WONDERS. Try it out the next time you want to bring back the 2 toms. In addition to that, make sure the stands to which you mount the toms are both DOUBLE BRACED and always mount the tom on the lowest and largest tube of the stands, this will give you maximum stability. Of course toms on stands will always move and the mount and stand will always flex a little bit (but it means they can RESONATE properly, so it's necessary) but they should not move so much that the stand ends up "walking" to a different position on the floor or the drum clashes with other elements on the kit (of course you have to leave a bit of clearance, if you know it's gonna move)

I’d get rm just to stop destroying my hands, is it worrh it?

I used a SK from Aquarian for a long time, I swear by Evans EMAD2 now though. I have absolutely no dampening or anything in the bass drum, I just use the larger muffle ring on the batter that's included.

I really can't figure out if I should pull the trigger on these or not. I want a 2 up 2 down setup, and I can get a whole drumset, which includes a 22" kick (only have 20" and 18"), and a metal snare I have neither of in my collection yet for the price of these. 1/3 of the price of the entire kit is what it would cost me to buy a 16" maple floor tom to go with my Sonor Maple kit. Just seems like it really makes more sense to add a birch set, a 22" kick and a metal snare to my disposal, rather than pay 30% of the price for a single floor tom...