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Yamaha Recording Custom

Drum Set from Yamaha belonging to the Recording Custom series

dorotheus dorotheus
Published on 08/18/07 at 05:48
I possd MODELS several of the recording.
I remember the Premire pub I had seen it on its release, both loving and j'tais rvuls!
It is true that the era of its release, That was in the first place a real rvolution Aesthetics. The shells look with the pure long trs, trs design, the bass hanging toms, the lacquer finish giving it an air compltement "transparent", these accessories for modern and trs, while This silent at odds with guns "batteuristiques" the era. Hence the shock and feeling rvulsive THE FIRST!
But as I said, j'tais also as a magnet. I read and contemplated the doc ever, and I felt, without knowing anything about the brand, this drumkit was something special. For in addition to the look, while silent rvolutionnaire. used wood (birch), the design, manufacture ... All other trademarks referred the Stone Age.
Before the drumkit, I tried many brands (tama, sonor, Capelle, ludwig) with always this feeling of incompleteness.
I knew that with the custom recording, I had to find my happiness.
My first model was a recording configuration in black lacquer bass drum and toms 20 12 13 14 floor tom. I waited a while to get it (several months). C'tait its release, In the 80s, the silent era and she makes great
care in Japan.
I remember well the evening and I had moved in with me and had tried for the first time. The shock! what sound, what purity. Toms, specially on 12, beautiful taient (QUIPS remo pin stripe with). I had never heard sound so clear, so transparent, in a word as modern. C'tait really Premire drumkit that I enjoyed playing and especially cost. The sound seemed almost dja .. . mix!
The look just as stunning silent. The beautiful black lacquer further strengthen the aspect of purity that DGIG the drumkit.
Accessories? lectures! I have honestly never found more ergonomic, more reliable and easier handling, their Systm mounting toms.
The Japanese ingnieurs REALLY rvolutionn the history of the drumkit with the
recording.
It's a bit later that I Discoveries all those who contributed to this wonderful collaboration, Steve Gadd at the top. From the more than Mystra, the best drummers of the era, the ingnieurs open and inventive, and voila your exact. A drumkit that has done a quantum leap in the instrument on which all other marks were aligned.
Today, the volumes and it still has a renvient more vintage sound, the Recording Custom is a REALLY good drumkit that folds all rglages and all skin types. provides easy, musical, alive, it should all styles of music.
The only BMOL, I think, is the bass drum. It lacks some of its BEYOND Diameter 20. The 18 and 20 are great but the 22 is a bit soft (the typical 80, the mat trs). Birch fits better, way gnerale, Small Diameter of drums. C ' is also why today, Steve Gadd uses a hybrid drumkit with birch toms and a bass drum in Rabl.

In conclusion, the sound of that legendary drumkit is certainly a bit typical for the current CRITERIA. This is the lot of unconventional instruments. Just as little be the sound of electronic Premire Simmons. But let's not forget that this type of drumkit in rvolutionnant concepts in fashion, make the music it finds it totally disrupts same. The majority of the 80 discs and 90 t are recorded with the recording. Steve Gadd, Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta, Peter Erskine and so have played it.
There was the era Gretsch, Slingerland, Ludwig, Tama ... and this era (80) 'c'tait that of its legendary Yamaha Recording Custom.