I recently saw someone on Kijiji looking to sell his kit. This guy had a 6-piece Tama Starclassic with a Black Panther snare, travel cases, a rack for his cymbals, double kicks...and ZBT cymbals!? This is maybe one of the more extreme examples but I see lots of kits like this. Decent mid-level (and up) kits with ZBTs or B8s or whatever. I always learned that you can make a crappy drum sound decent with the right heads and tuning but a crappy cymbal always sounds like a crappy cymbal.
What general rule of thumb are people who know what they're talking about using? Maybe I've gone too far in the other direction, I don't know. I have a Tama Imperialstar (all poplar) with Sabina AAX cymbals. I always thought your cymbals should cost about the same as your kit (mine came with hardware so maybe I miss calculated) but I'm seeing cymbal sets that cost a fraction of the kits they're paired with. Who's missing the target here? Is it me, or them? Or both of us?
What general rule of thumb are people who know what they're talking about using? Maybe I've gone too far in the other direction, I don't know. I have a Tama Imperialstar (all poplar) with Sabina AAX cymbals. I always thought your cymbals should cost about the same as your kit (mine came with hardware so maybe I miss calculated) but I'm seeing cymbal sets that cost a fraction of the kits they're paired with. Who's missing the target here? Is it me, or them? Or both of us?
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