So like 6 years ago,give or take. I rode my Harley from Long Island out to Teluca Lake CA to see a friend. As I spent time there I decided to ride up to Oxnard and see the factory, especially since I just bought a collectors maple mahogany kit. So I ride up there, no appointment, walk in and ask for a tour. The receptionist tells me only Tuesday and Thursdays I believe. So we get to talking and some dude walks out, I tell him my story how I rode out here, and you guys built me this beautiful MM kit etc, he goes "stay right here". Dude comes back with John Good and we get to talking. John gives me my own private tour of the DW factory!!!. Great guy and an even better human being. John was so impressed I rode all the way there he said he had to give me a tour lol. Definetly a highlight of my life. Thank you John I'll never forget what you did for me
That’s fantastic!! I had a similar situation in 1996. My flight back to Michigan was supposed to leave and I couldn’t make the scheduled tour so they invited me out a day early and I spent a couple hours with John one-on-one. He and his crew were amazing! Solid people and great drums and hardware!!
It´s amazing to see dw´s factory and how they make their drums and hardware, I have a Design series kit and it´s top quality for less money then a Collectors kit. Thanks making this video :)
For all the guitarist watching, the Guild factory is like 5 minutes away as well. They make all the usa acoustics there. Its also a pretty cool factory.
In 2006, my Bro, whom was a drummer, & I had gone here! It was a surprise tour I had called to set up & he 'thought' we were going to the beach! :) Funny story though...When I had stopped at a gas station to get specific directions, I would have thought for sure he would have figured out that we were in farm country & nowhere near a beach, but he wasn't fazed :) And I had told him [since he thought we were going to the beach], to bring a t-shirt change, because he was wearing a Pearl T-shirt in front of that DW Wall & when we went inside to check in with the receptionist at the front, she busted his balls about the shirt, but we assured her that we had a change in the car!! Haaaa..... And to comment what others said: At the end of the tour, they lead you into a room with many kits set up & tell you, you can play any set!! And they gave you a DW Drum Key!! The tour was amazing! What a great tour & great memory!!
Seeing those drum sets at the end was my favorite part. I am new to drumming and am looking to buy a set. It was fun to see how drums are being built. Keep up the cool channel !!!
Dude sanding the wood is very important because if it's not sanded down, then you're going to have a drum shell with a bunch of chips it, and probably get some splinters.
howdy- so when did you go on this tour? i ask because.. at the 8:45 min mark- the Lacquer room; I see my Red and Blue Mapa Burl drum shells, on the right, hanging on a rack. I just took delivery of the entire kit on 5/17/23. Excellent video as well. Thank you for posting. And YES- that Neil Peart R40 kit at the end...Priceless!!!!
You have to go to the DW factory day event they do every year. They have artists playing, tours of the factory, drums and merch for sale. It's pretty awesome and it's free to get in
FYI they’re not checking the shells for timbre (pronounced tamber)at the end. They are checking the tuning of the drums so that they can mark the inside of the shells for the new owner. Timbre match in comes way before they ever put paint. That would be absurd to paint drums not to have the match and have to throw them away or send them down and refinish them. Logic
It’s a marketing strategy. A good one, but just a selling fad. The note of shell changes just like you said. It’s their “thing!” People buy it. Oh well. Drum on.
That is true but what’s interesting is that if you tune the bottom head to the note on the the inside of the shell, then tune the top head a half step to minor third above it (per John Good’s recommendation) your drums will sound really good. I’ve tried it with my Collector’s Cherry Jazz kit and it totally worked. My kit has 12”, 13”, & 14” toms and when tuned this way not only were the intervals good between them, but the character of the drums in that range went well together. So, it works, but you can also tune them however you like. They’re great drums.
Not all the DW drums are made in the USA,there is a plant in Taiwan, which also makes entry level sets of Slingerland, Gretsch and all the PDP sets. DW is not even an American owned company anymore. All the DW operations have been incorporated as a division of Roland.
So my question is, do the workers get any kind of discount? If so how much of a discount. I'm trying to decide on whether to get an application or not 😂
miss the days that they would let you play on the sets. there used to be like 5-6 drumsets in the showroom that you can play. it's awesome to see bozzio and neil's set displayed. mustve been crazy to see in person.
Bro that's what I thought, I saw videos of people playing in the showroom but apparently those days are gone! 😢 seeing those sets in real life it's amazing!
Just FYI, Neil Peart's last name is pronounced PEERT. At least, that's the way he, himself, pronounced it. And if was good enough for him, it's good enough for me.
Never been a fan of DW Drums. They just don’t resonate the way Sonor, Gretsch and Pearl do. Maybe the plies, the glue, the hardware? Who knows, but I do know that all of that takes o piece of the sound.
You’re nuts. Are used to have a set of collectors and they sang. It was just after they stopped using Keller shells and started making their own. I recorded an album and a pretty good studio, and the engineer that runs the place begged me to sell him the drums because they sounded so amazing compared to the hundreds of other drum sets he heard. Sonar sound pretty damn good too.
All the other series are made in.......China, Malaysia, Taiwan? So what's the difference to Pearl, Tama, Sonor and many others. Big mouth sometimes telling nonsense and a promotion dpt. working 24/7/365.
So like 6 years ago,give or take. I rode my Harley from Long Island out to Teluca Lake CA to see a friend. As I spent time there I decided to ride up to Oxnard and see the factory, especially since I just bought a collectors maple mahogany kit. So I ride up there, no appointment, walk in and ask for a tour. The receptionist tells me only Tuesday and Thursdays I believe. So we get to talking and some dude walks out, I tell him my story how I rode out here, and you guys built me this beautiful MM kit etc, he goes "stay right here". Dude comes back with John Good and we get to talking. John gives me my own private tour of the DW factory!!!. Great guy and an even better human being. John was so impressed I rode all the way there he said he had to give me a tour lol. Definetly a highlight of my life. Thank you John I'll never forget what you did for me
That's very cool and proffesional
@eliaselias4647 yeah certainly was something I'll never forget
That’s fantastic!! I had a similar situation in 1996. My flight back to Michigan was supposed to leave and I couldn’t make the scheduled tour so they invited me out a day early and I spent a couple hours with John one-on-one. He and his crew were amazing! Solid people and great drums and hardware!!
@thebeatlabmusic749 there you go!!! Just a simple knock on the door, and the dude treats you like family! Lol, what a great time for us both lol
Dude this place is literally a drummer's paradise
It is a paradise!
Hi Alejandro. Thank you for taking the tour it was my great pleasure. Very nice video! :)
Thanks to you Mike! Loved the tour! Hope to be back real soon!
Oh man! Thx for showing!
I remember me acting like a little kid when i got my first DW custom made!
Thanks to you! Wow that's awesome! I really wanna get one now haha
This video ROCKS!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
It´s amazing to see dw´s factory and how they make their drums and hardware, I have a Design series kit and it´s top quality for less money then a Collectors kit. Thanks making this video :)
Glad you enjoyed the video bro! So cool you have one! I want a Dw set now haha
Collectors are worth every penny! the feel is crazy!
Either way you got good drums
Finally! Outdoor videos😊🤗🤗
Yeaaah! I'm starting to like this type of videos
@@AlejandroSifuentes Awesome!
I can't wait to visit their factory one day... Thanks for the video ☺️
Amazing drum factory! ❤️❤️
HERZLICHEN DANK !!! SUPER !
Great tour!✌🏼
This video is insane…crazy!
For all the guitarist watching, the Guild factory is like 5 minutes away as well. They make all the usa acoustics there. Its also a pretty cool factory.
I would be ok with taking my vacation there. Send everyone to the islands and I will go there! That is my paradise
Sweet ride!
Glad you enjoyed bro
Love my Ludwig classic maple drums.
Ufff Ludwig is awesome too!
Neil P. That's a work of art.
Man it's beautiful!!
In 2006, my Bro, whom was a drummer, & I had gone here! It was a surprise tour I had called to set up & he 'thought' we were going to the beach! :)
Funny story though...When I had stopped at a gas station to get specific directions, I would have thought for sure he would have figured out that we were in farm country & nowhere near a beach, but he wasn't fazed :) And I had told him [since he thought we were going to the beach], to bring a t-shirt change, because he was wearing a Pearl T-shirt in front of that DW Wall & when we went inside to check in with the receptionist at the front, she busted his balls about the shirt, but we assured her that we had a change in the car!! Haaaa.....
And to comment what others said: At the end of the tour, they lead you into a room with many kits set up & tell you, you can play any set!! And they gave you a DW Drum Key!! The tour was amazing!
What a great tour & great memory!!
The place is really nice.
It's awesomeeeeee!
Great video, love DW Drums. As a percussionist, I would like to see a factory tour of LP, Latin Percussion.
Great video, loved it all. Would love a DW kit, I have the DW direct drive bass pedal and it is awesome :)
Very cool 🥁🎼
Seeing those drum sets at the end was my favorite part. I am new to drumming and am looking to buy a set. It was fun to see how drums are being built. Keep up the cool channel !!!
It was a really cool experience, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Dude sanding the wood is very important because if it's not sanded down, then you're going to have a drum shell with a bunch of chips it, and probably get some splinters.
That's right! We don't want splinters haha
Bro those graphics are fire. You need to get all those graphics.
I'd love to have a custom drum set!
Bro my favorite drum set is absolutely Neill Pergs drum set.
It's one of my favorites!
howdy- so when did you go on this tour? i ask because.. at the 8:45 min mark- the Lacquer room; I see my Red and Blue Mapa Burl drum shells, on the right, hanging on a rack. I just took delivery of the entire kit on 5/17/23. Excellent video as well. Thank you for posting. And YES- that Neil Peart R40 kit at the end...Priceless!!!!
wow so cool you got to see your drum shells in the video haha this was filmed on April 13th, congrats on your new kit!
Neil Part’s drum kit for sure!!
Magnifico.👑👑👑👑👑👑
Excelenteeee!
Brooo are you still in the area! I live here and would love to show you my drum studio!
No bro! Already back in Mexico, but I'll be back for the next NAMM! That'd ve been awesome
Very interesting.
Another day, another video of my favorite drummer 🥁
That's why you are the best!
Such an awesome video! I loved the pattern creation!!! 🔥 🔥
This and the Fender factory are the only reasons I’d ever go to California.
I love the DW Drums and I love it when you do the Maneskin pose 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Y u say this on every video
The best things on the planet haha
12:50 I’m surprised bro has the bit already spinning when placing it, especially on gold plated hardware
Amazing!!!! I have a question! That is your car!!!! Looks amazing!!! Love it! The smell of the wood how was it!!! 🤤🤤🤤
Thanks man! It was rental for my stay in California, it was awesome! It smelled really nice bro!
I would like to live there
New home is cool
Let's all move there haha
Im the 27 likes btw im such a big fan
You are the best!
Neil’s set my favorite. Thank you 😊
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Wowwww bro si cool
It's really cool bro
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Let's gooo!
@@AlejandroSifuentes
Absolutely LOVE the channel! The content is top notch to say the least!! 🙏 🥁
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I live Oxnard California and want to go so badly
Brooo you need to go! They do the Tours every Thursday at 2pm
You have to go to the DW factory day event they do every year. They have artists playing, tours of the factory, drums and merch for sale. It's pretty awesome and it's free to get in
"Crazy" aka loco Si ?. I would substitute crazy with awesome, except Terry Bozzio's drumset. That is crazy ! 😁
Thanks for the recomendation bro! haha that is one crazy drum set! It was my wallpaper many years ago
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FYI they’re not checking the shells for timbre (pronounced tamber)at the end. They are checking the tuning of the drums so that they can mark the inside of the shells for the new owner.
Timbre match in comes way before they ever put paint. That would be absurd to paint drums not to have the match and have to throw them away or send them down and refinish them. Logic
Bro you need to get Neill Pergs drum set.
That'd be dreaaam!
I'm curious to hear what they have to say about the shells note when considering once you add the hardware on them it changes the note completely
It’s a marketing strategy. A good one, but just a selling fad. The note of shell changes just like you said. It’s their “thing!” People buy it. Oh well. Drum on.
That is true but what’s interesting is that if you tune the bottom head to the note on the the inside of the shell, then tune the top head a half step to minor third above it (per John Good’s recommendation) your drums will sound really good. I’ve tried it with my Collector’s Cherry Jazz kit and it totally worked. My kit has 12”, 13”, & 14” toms and when tuned this way not only were the intervals good between them, but the character of the drums in that range went well together. So, it works, but you can also tune them however you like. They’re great drums.
Who knew making a drum starts off with a very thin piece of wood.
It's just craaazy!
Amazing😂
Proof that Alejandro Sifuentes switch from PDP drum to DW drum kit
Brooo haha that's one of the reasons why I got the Pdp, it was the closest I can get to Dw by that time haha
15:41 MIKE!!!
Bro labeling is also very important to stay organized.
What type of wood is that? It's so flexible, and what size?
I go with Terry Bozzio's Kit
Is there a shop that sells tuning keys, shirts and stuff like that?
😃me gusto todo
Not all the DW drums are made in the USA,there is a plant in Taiwan, which also makes entry level sets of Slingerland, Gretsch and all the PDP sets.
DW is not even an American owned company anymore. All the DW operations have been incorporated as a division of Roland.
So they don’t cold temper the Performance Series shells?
So my question is, do the workers get any kind of discount? If so how much of a discount. I'm trying to decide on whether to get an application or not 😂
What's the main principal difference between Collectors and Performance series ??
miss the days that they would let you play on the sets. there used to be like 5-6 drumsets in the showroom that you can play. it's awesome to see bozzio and neil's set displayed. mustve been crazy to see in person.
Bro that's what I thought, I saw videos of people playing in the showroom but apparently those days are gone! 😢 seeing those sets in real life it's amazing!
Shells ? Buy them or make them ?
WHERE DO YOU GET THE BIT HEADS FOR THE SCREW DRIVER. I WANNA DO THAT 🥹
You lost me at that parking action. Jk 😂
hahahaha noooo! Finally I was able to mix cars and drums
If you show up on site. Do you get a better deal. ??
What's the name of the tightening Torque battery..red in colour
wow
Let's goooo1
If you see this, please send your positive thoughts and prayers for my healing journey.
I think that machine in the wood room is probably used to cut the wood to the right size.
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Let's go!
Bro i bet that big ass 3D printer probably costs like about a half a million bucks.
It was reaaaaly expensive for a 3D printer and it was the entry version haha
It must be cold in there.
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Man, you walk into the showroom to see all these amazing drum sets and can't fucking play them, that's bullshit.
Bro, I think you need to buy yourself an electric drum key like the dude was using to tune the drum.
That would save me a lot of time!
Just FYI, Neil Peart's last name is pronounced PEERT. At least, that's the way he, himself, pronounced it. And if was good enough for him, it's good enough for me.
Ohhhh nice 😯 didn't know that!
You could just steal the carbon fiber double kick pedal if you really want it, but I wouldn't risk doing it if I were you.
Ok so I know you have to tune a drum, but I didn't know you have to tune a drum shell.
That's insaane!
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As a Mexican, DW should include Mexican flags on their logo😂 I thought it was still the Ensenada plant
#dwdrumsmadeinusastillbymexicansstill
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You should pronounce Neil Peart’s last name like Peert! Not Pert! There’s more than enough videos on UA-cam to back this up!
What does lacquer even mean, and what is it.
It’s a clear material that gets sprayed onto the shell to give it a glossy look, and to protect it.
@@Superball01 oh ok, thank you for the info
@@rigoserrano1508 Not a problem at all.
Nahh 😂 im like 5 minutes away
Bro you should go! They give tours every thursday at 2 pm
You mis-pronounced Neil Peart's name.. it is not pronounced "pert" but "Peart"
español porfavor
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Sale mañana brooo!
it is your car?
Soon it'll be! This was a rental for my stay in California bro, it was awesome!
@@AlejandroSifuentes yes ! beautiful day!
WoodFella Drum Co is way superior than any plywood drum.
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You rock!
Latinos que adoran marcas de un país que los odia, que paradójico no..? 😅 😅 😅 😅 😅
Never been a fan of DW Drums. They just don’t resonate the way Sonor, Gretsch and Pearl do. Maybe the plies, the glue, the hardware? Who knows, but I do know that all of that takes o piece of the sound.
And DW will go bankrupt because you don’t like them lol
You’re nuts. Are used to have a set of collectors and they sang. It was just after they stopped using Keller shells and started making their own.
I recorded an album and a pretty good studio, and the engineer that runs the place begged me to sell him the drums because they sounded so amazing compared to the hundreds of other drum sets he heard.
Sonar sound pretty damn good too.
All the other series are made in.......China, Malaysia, Taiwan? So what's the difference to Pearl, Tama, Sonor and many others. Big mouth sometimes telling nonsense and a promotion dpt. working 24/7/365.
You mean Roland Drums.
The most over rated drums out there.
I prefer peart drums. Terry bozzio be doing too much
The drum tuning guy seems to be a jerk. "You mear mortals, really?"
Tama has better drums and less expensive.
Jesus! That swizel sound effect you add is so annoying and unneeded.