Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Check out the new Visuals featured on the Pintech site, including the 
John Bonham tribute Vistalite look-alike kit.  Go, Brian, Go.

--- Ed wrote:
> Check out the new Visuals featured on the Pintech site...

They are deeply, deeply gorgeous, it is true. In my "fantasy budget" 
moments, I think a Visual kit would be my top choice. Some of the 
more "acoustic style" kits don't do it for me as they only go for 
single sized shells - it looks like a kit made exclusively of snare 
drums. Look at RET for an example of this. The individual drums are 
beautiful, but the overall effect for me is more jarring than a kit 
made up of rubber pads. If you're going to go for an 
acoustic "visual" style, the Pintech Visuals are top banana in my 
book. But the math... oh, my word. My ideal kit - a seven-piece, 
with secondary "piccolo" snare is in fantasy mathematics territory 
for me.

:-(

Stewart

--- I wrote:
> My ideal kit - a seven-piece, 
> with secondary "piccolo" snare...

Just to make that concrete, I priced up a Visual shell pack (8, 10, 
12, 14, 16 toms, 20 kick, 14 and 10 snares) at Drumbalaya. $3574 
without cymbals, hardware or module. Hugely better value than R*land 
without doubt, but ...

Stewart (depressed, again)

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" <moosetication@y...> 
wrote:
> --- Ed wrote:
> > Check out the new Visuals featured on the Pintech site...
> 
> They are deeply, deeply gorgeous, it is true. In my "fantasy 
budget" 
> moments, I think a Visual kit would be my top choice. Some of the 
> more "acoustic style" kits don't do it for me as they only go for 
> single sized shells - it looks like a kit made exclusively of snare 
> drums. Look at RET for an example of this. The individual drums are 
> beautiful, but the overall effect for me is more jarring than a kit 
> made up of rubber pads. If you're going to go for an 
> acoustic "visual" style, the Pintech Visuals are top banana in my 
> book. But the math... oh, my word. My ideal kit - a seven-piece, 
> with secondary "piccolo" snare is in fantasy mathematics territory 
> for me.

Stewart,

I know what you mean. My 10" concertcast toms are more than 
serviceable, and take up about as much room as I can afford at the 
moment, but they don't have that . . . well, visual appeal. Our 18th 
C house is still a work in progress, but when we add a couple of 
rooms to it within the next year or so, I'd like to score a Visual as 
well. However, I have my eye on Brian's bubinga kit. I'm hoping that 
he can run it through a copy machine, or he finds another one in the 
Pintech closet that needs a home.

Ed