Ryan there was an interesting thread a while back that was titled "Are vintage drums all they can be?"... or something close to that.

The discussion went on for a week or so and covered like 4 pages with posts from many of the most knowledgeable people on this forum... although I wish a couple more "big names" would have jumped in... There are a lot of people on this forum.. working drummers with a ton of experience around a lot of equipment.. I always really enjoy reading their posts.

It was a very popular thread in Vintage Drums... I think if you sort the threads by number of reads or responses it should be near the top of list... give that a read and see what you think.

Hint... it's a good question.. that is directly answered by a lot of people in completely different ways..DOH

Welcome!

I saw the same post on another forum, so I would wait to see what they offer in the area of advice for you there.

We have talked about this here before, but I think there are far too many factors involved.

If you take the same shell and change the bearing edge and heads you get a different sound.

Also, with reinforcement rings or not is a big difference from 60's to 80's.

Can you get a classic 60's sound of an 80's shell? Nope and that is why so many drummers cut bearing edges and modify drums to get the sound they wanted. The 80's had a different sound and to get the 60's drums to have that sound they needed to be changed, so cut a different bearing edge profile...

I would decide on the era you like and approach it that way.

David

I'll sum it up like this:

The Good = 60's

The Bad = 80's

The Ugly = 70's

DOH