You tripped on the internet and fell on this site.

This is my first proper post in a while. Not much has been going on. Still working full time trying to pay off my education/mistakes and enjoying life. Anyway the only thing notable is my new drum set. I have been drumming on and off since I was a kid, my first junior set, then got a cheap prim ere kit, then a Roland TD-3 which I sold when I moved back to Texas. I decided electronics are nice but not the same feel and they end up being about as inconvenient to lug around because of the amp.

So my income tax came in and I’ve been itching to play drums again. A while ago i got to sit in for a drummer who had a Gretsch kit and since then i liked the sound and feel of Gretsch kits. Looking around i found out the price gap between a beginner kit and pro kit was quite a bit. For gretsch it was the same. I also learned that there is a difference in qualities and types of wood used in drum shells. Luckily, when I went to Mr. E’s to see if they had kits the test that guitar center didn’t have, i found a decent Gretsch catalina maple 6-piece kit for a reasonable price. I also didn’t know much about cymbals and the differences in sounds, I figured they all sound the same. Obviously I’m wrong, I did find a reasonably priced pack of Sabian X20 cymbals they have the nice crisp sound I wanted in a cymbal. Overall it sounds pretty good. It has stock heads and isn’t tuned so that part sounds not so good. I’ll have to do a lot of tweaking before I’m happy but just the shiny hardware cymbals and red veneer I’m amazed.