I have not seen much on the ddrum Paladin line up here, so I thought I would offer a brief review based upon my experience with the Paladin maple bop kit. I picked up the kit from a local drum shop. Nice looking in natural wood finish with nickel finish on the hardware. The price was good (around $700), and I wanted it for a second bop kit. My main gigging kit is a Canopus Neo Vintage and I also have a Gretsch USA Custom Limited edition ribbon mahogany kit. So I expected that the ddrum kit would not live up to my other kits, but I was quite surprised at how low the quality of construction actually was.
First, the finish was quite nice. I didn't detect any blemishes and it was a nice looking kit. However, when I opened up the bass drum, I was in for a surprise. I was changing the resonant head on the bass drum and started to look at the bearing edges--a complete mess. In one spot, the maker had put a huge amount of glue between the plies, causing a big bump in the inside of the shell. As a result, the inside of the shell was not actually round. This was very visible. At another spot on the bass drum the plies were coming apart--probably due to insufficient glue in that area (maybe it was all over where the bump was). There were gouge marks next to a couple of the screws holding on the lugs, where it appeared someone slipped with a screw driver.
In general, I worry much more about the sound of an instrument than I do about looks and finish, but the quality of construction on this kit was extremely poor--very sloppy. At the price, these are not tremendously expensive drums, but they are not cheap either. I've had the Gretsch Catalina club jazz kit, which is a bit cheaper, and the quality is much, much higher than on this ddrum kit. The construction quality simply is not acceptable for what ddrum represents as a pro kit--it's not a pro kit. I returned the kit to the shop where I bought them and will not ever buy anything from ddrum again.
First, the finish was quite nice. I didn't detect any blemishes and it was a nice looking kit. However, when I opened up the bass drum, I was in for a surprise. I was changing the resonant head on the bass drum and started to look at the bearing edges--a complete mess. In one spot, the maker had put a huge amount of glue between the plies, causing a big bump in the inside of the shell. As a result, the inside of the shell was not actually round. This was very visible. At another spot on the bass drum the plies were coming apart--probably due to insufficient glue in that area (maybe it was all over where the bump was). There were gouge marks next to a couple of the screws holding on the lugs, where it appeared someone slipped with a screw driver.
In general, I worry much more about the sound of an instrument than I do about looks and finish, but the quality of construction on this kit was extremely poor--very sloppy. At the price, these are not tremendously expensive drums, but they are not cheap either. I've had the Gretsch Catalina club jazz kit, which is a bit cheaper, and the quality is much, much higher than on this ddrum kit. The construction quality simply is not acceptable for what ddrum represents as a pro kit--it's not a pro kit. I returned the kit to the shop where I bought them and will not ever buy anything from ddrum again.
ddrum Paladin
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