YAMAHA Club Custom designed in collaboration with the legendary Steve Jordan!
The shells are made from 100% Malaysian Kapur wood, and the bearing edges have Yamaha's 60-3R profile, which has a shallow 60° cut leading to a smooth round-over with no sharp peak. The shells are 6-ply and 7mm thick...
Today's demo features a Yamaha Beech Custom in a beautiful "Blueberry" lacquer finish!
These drums sound warm and direct, having the attack and presence of Maple and the low-end punch of Birch.
This kit has Remo Coated Ambassadors on the batters and Clear Ambassadors on the Resos.
Our kit...
Today's kit is a Gretsch Brooklyn in bop sizes. Our kit comes in the satin burnt orange finish.
The shells are 6-ply North American maple/poplar with Silver Sealer interiors and 30 degree bearing edges.
The toms and snare have Gretsch "302" double-flanged hoops. Played by Lucas Apostoleris...
We pulled our early 2010s Catalina Club out of storage and decided to give it some play time to see how it holds up. It's definitely one of the best budget bop kits out there!
Our kit has a natural/blonde satin finish and everything about it is stock, except for the heads which we replaced with...
YAMAHA Club Custom designed in collaboration with the legendary Steve Jordan!
The shells are made from 100% Malaysian Kapur wood, and the bearing edges have Yamaha's 60-3R profile, which has a shallow 60° cut leading to a smooth round-over with no sharp peak.
The shells are 6-ply and 7mm...
The last time we featured this kit in a video, we had put Coated Ambassadors and Yamaha Diecast hoops on both batter and reso sides. While it was a fun configuration to play on, we felt the sound was a little choked.
Today, we think we've found our favorite heads for these drums: Evans Onyx...
Today’s video features a Pearl Decade Maple Bop kit in a "Solid Yellow" Lacquer!
For this demo, we put Remo Coated Ambassador-X on the tom batters and the clear Remo Ambassadors on the resos. Performed by Lucas Apostoleris.
This configuration is:
18 x 14 Bass Drum
12 x 8 Rack Tom
14 x 14...
It's Yamaha season here at Mostly Bop! The first of our Yamaha kits is an original Maple Custom bop kit in Natural Gloss.
For this demo, we used Remo Coated Ambassadors on the batters, and Clear Ambassadors on the resos. On the bass drum reso, we used a Remo Fiberskyn.
Configuration:
18 x 14...
We've been a bit quiet for the last few weeks as we've been busy filming and experimenting with new (to us) kits. Today, we're giving you the full rundown of demos for the next few months as we dive into our second year here at Mostly Bop Drums!
The Lineup (in no official order whatsoever)...
Today's video features a Sakae Trilogy kit in bop sizes!
This kit has been outfitted with Earthtone Calkfskin heads on the batters and Remo Clear Ambassadors on the resos.
Built in Osaka, Japan by Sakae. Sakae made drums for Yamaha for 40 years. The Trilogy kit features thin 3-ply...