Natal Arcadia Acrylic Kit - Drummer's Review
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Here's our review of a Natal Drums Arcadia Series Acrylic shell pack with matching snare drum. Filmed at Middle Farm Studios, July 2019. For full specs, please visit our website: www.drummersreview.com, and to connect with us further, check out our social media channels...
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I've always loved the sound of acrylic kits (maybe it's the Barrie Barlow fan in me) - they don't have the sophistication of a nice wood kit but they have a special "oommph" that really works live.
Also, I love the guy who plays the demonstrations, he plays REALLY well! He and Nick D'Virgilio are probably my two favourite youtube demonstrators. Cheers mate!
Even with not so great heads it sounded pretty good
I'm more and more impressed by natal
I’ve never been a fan of the sound of acrylic kits (same for stainless steel), but I do love the durability of them. Weather doesn’t affect performance and as long as you take care not to damage the shell, it’ll look great for years to come.
I enjoy your reviews, and especially here answering "Why would a player choose an acrylic drum set over wood?"
Best acryllic kit I ever heard.
These sound better than a lot of what I've heard from acrylic kits.
Excellent playing and review. Awesome sounding kit at a really low price. Thank you Drummer's Review.
thanks for this review, helped me decide to buy one.
No exotic wood or cross ply technology required here!
Lovely kit and it packs a punch. Good price point too.
Sounds awesome. Looks great 👍.
Best sounding acrylic drums I've ever heard! Now I'm searching the web but can't find any for sale! Please reply to me if you find one, thanks all and keep on rocking.
The Natal demos are extremely good sounding and a very attractive sound (probably not for jazz) from this acrylic kit - with the "serviced" kick drum standing out. That other Natal set in blue had wonderful sound all over the spectrum. This is one sophisticated and wonderful review channel with exemplary mic-ing. BTW - what I heard of the vintage "FIBES" toms was very nice and IIRC, a lot more overtones and life.
hey look, Marshall Drums! for real though, definitely a pretty great sound and value!
Great sound!
Finally!!!!! Love this kit 😁
Thomas Gillard you’re the first commenter as well
Pansini Percussion in Australia make incredibly awesome acrylic drums!!
Where are you getting your information on the heads from? It is my understanding that the Remo UT heads are all single ply? The snare is a UT coated single ply, and the toms are UT clear single ply. I replaced these on my own Natal acrylic kit with Code Generators, which are definitely double ply and there was a huge difference. The reso heads supplied are very thin no name heads. I found my Natal acrylic kit quite ringy with these stock heads on it. I changed the reso heads for Code RR reso heads. This combination of new Code heads finally gave the kit that classic dry punchy sound in real life that you are demonstrating here in your recording.
I personally have always liked the sound from Acrylic drums, it has very defined sound and much less overtone...
I'm surprised by the price... dang... not bad at all... the sound is sweet.
It's very cool looking, but i would be terrified to take them anywhere. I do like the punch.
Can you consider reviewing a Yamaha absolute hybrid maple kit? And a medium beech Sonor SQ2.... thank you
best. glasses. ever.
I use dubble ply head on top so to the sound doesn't come out too fast
Did Jim Marshall actually get to see natal drums come to market? Or had he passed away at that point.
Can you do a review on the sonor aq2 safari kit please? :)
Where can I buy these in the states??
Please do the Pearl Midtown kit. Small traveler/gigging type kits i think are getting more popular these days
Review the Tama slp dynamic kapur!
Did you already compare the DW and Natal Acrylic ? Is it really really different (for the price...). I have a DW acrylic, but I want buy a 14' floortom, and I'm answering me if I take 14' Floortom DW (500€) or Natal (230€)... Please help meeeee !🙏🏻
Simple,if you're a rich kid or have a rich Daddy or get paid a grand plus per gig then buy DW!
Anyone can tell me with scientific arguments what differences can someone expect from a High quality, top of the line acrylic kit vs a budget acrylic kit, just in terms of the acrylic quality??? let's say seamless vs seamless. Any real reason to expect a huge sound quality from acrylic? It has been a question that i have not been able to answer and for me, acrylic is acrylic. Correct me but I don't find in acrylic the variety or quality range that you can find in wood built kits. Being that said and leaving aside looks, I'm tempted to buy a low budget acrylic kit. Thank you to all of you that may provide some light on the subject.
Like the Bass drum best
In Australia, Natal doesn’t have a good resale value.
Probably just not well known.
Nowhere, here in Spain its impossible to sell since no one knows about them and once they hear the name they think its a supermarket brand. Too risky to buy...
This is my first time seeing them but ig that just means they’re cheaper used
Spartan Drew
Exactly..!
What ride is that please?
Meinl 21” Byzance Transition Ride.
Many thanks for that. Kind of you to reply.
Thanks for video, o bought this kit! What Hz or note did you tune the 12” 16” and 22” base (I struggling with that) thank you and great videos!
I wonder why these sound good but the Pearl and dw acrylics don’t? I’ve heard that they’re all made in the same factory.
I'm guessing that has a lot to do with the personal tuning, and even more so the recording techniques used. I have one of these, but what they call the AA2 configuration 12" rack 14" & 16" floor toms, and 22" bass in red acrylic. Now just to really pee everyone off, I bought mine brand new from a shop in the UK before they were re released minus the 14" floor tom, and I paid only £489 Unbelievable value! I bought the 14" x 5.5" snare separately, which I'm having a lot of trouble getting to sound decent enough without that boing boing sound, but again, that's probably just a tuning issue. As stated in the review, it doesn't do subtle, with taps not really resonating at all, but played more solidly it's a monster! I absolutely love the kit!
Ian Walton Wow on the price. In a few months I’m buying a dw design series,although probably not acrylic. A four piece with no snare is $600 cheaper. They’re awful proud of their snares. I have an acrolite. I don’t need a $600 snare. If I do go acrylic,I was gonna get the snare,but after what you’ve stated,probably not. You might be right about the tuning. One of the videos I’ve watched of the dw design acrylics is Sweetwater. I can’t remember who else. The reason I’m probably not going acrylic is I don’t want to buy drums for looks but for sound. Of course just about anything will sound better than the pdp Encore I’m using until I’ve saved enough to buy the dw set. Chas Smith’s Pearl acrylic set sound fairly good,I guess,but there’s less warmth than wooden drums.
@@justinlee2268 Yes definitely a fantastic price I paid! The shop had two brand new Natal acrylic kits in the AA2 config. An amber set, and the red one. I really wanted a clear kit, but convinced myself before setting off to 'love' the amber kit for the price. I drove 170 miles to the shop and immediately fell in love with the red kit instead. They were down sizing on the shop so clearing out stock. This was last year, the AA2 now sells for around £800+ regarding the acrylic snare, I haven't given up on it yet, but when I took the kit to a rehearsal, I immediately switched back to my old Premier 2000 metal snare which had far more control cut and just pure precision. Maybe try and pick up an acrylic snare to play around with additionally to your main snare?
@@ianwalton7893 dang I'm trying to find one in the states to no avail. 45 degree edges?
@@levijessegonzalez3629 As far as I am aware, yes. Natal's general blurp for all their kits states 45 deg bearing edges, so I can only assume that applies to the acrylics too. I've not actually checked.
It's not fair if Nolly tunes it, he could make a toilet roll with saran wrap sound good
IMO acrylic snares are either too ringy or dead. This snare sounds very lively.
They look like great drums for functions where aesthetics are a big deal.
Only problem is something this cool will attract drunken idiots like moths to a lightbulb!
Knee slapper! ! ! You sir have won the Internet.
Ut means untunable you really should not comment on poor sound because of poor heads only a basic student Would leave factory heads on you should apply the heads that we would put on and give us a better review
Why are companies still making acrylic shells for ? They're awful and are totally impractical, except for aesthetic reasons. They're a sound man's or engineer's worst nightmare. Even the mighty Ludwig's vistalite kits are overpriced plastic. I think acrylic shells should have burnt out in the 80s and laid to rest. Forever..😂
When I first played my buddies ludwig vistalite from the 70s, I couldn't agree with you more. Look cool, sound terrible. Unmicd, hot cluttered garage, old heads no bueno. Even after giving the kit a fresh life and playing an unmicd blues rock gig in an open room
I still wasn't happy with the tones.
I would have to say. The set in this video sounds tastey! I own the pdp Chad Smith acrylic snare 14x5 model. Loud, ringy, very aggressive! ! Definitely for rock, funk, metal, punk, or gospel. Any genre where you would want a big cutting sound.
Come on now,...move along, nothing for you to see here sir! :)
Woods shell sound so much better, acrylics have no control over volume
Great sound!