Pulse Pro 5 piece review Part 1

I promised a review, but I decided to do a drum review because that is more my style.

Pulse Pro 5-piece drum set with Cymbals
pruchased from http://www.musiciansfriend.com
Price - ~$400 (I got it on sale for 300)

I will be reviewing my personal drumset, my Pulse Pro 5 Piece. I will address all aspects, good and bad, and include pics of all parts.



Lets start out with the biggest and boldest part of the set; the Bass Drum. Boasting a modest 22 X 16 Bass drum, the front head has a 6 inch port and the Pulse logo on front. The bass comes with 1 ply heads which are rather bad quality and very very high sounding. The Shell itself is rather nice and has held up well against my metal playing. Overall, the bass is rather high, but with some muffling and new heads, sounds pretty good.



With my original bass drum heads, the batter head cracked and eventually a large hole, about 8 inches formed and, until I got a new drum head, was simply taped up with duct tape.



The next part Ill address is the Toms, including the mounted toms and the floor tom.
Like most 5 piece sets, the mounted toms are 12 X 10 and 13 X 11 and the floor tom is a 16 X 16. All three, Iv noticed, are very high, and very resonant. For metal, this isnt that amazing, and is rather annoying, but if your music calls for it, they are good. When tuned, they are all rather nice sounding and are mostly well defined. All 3 heads that come with are rather unimpressive and when replaced, sound amazing.


Next, one of the most important aspects of a good drum set; the snare.
The snare that comes with the set, I could describe in 1 word; Foggy. I was rather unhappy with the snare because it is very very hard to get a decent snap out of it, it isnt very good, and even with a new head, its not that great. Personally, I highly suggest you switch the whole snare out all together. It is a 5-1/2 X 14 steel snare.


Just speaking in terms of the drums themselves, they arent bad considering this set is about 300 bucks. New heads make this set sound like a decent set, and some muffling really can bring your sound down to a more metal style sound. The snare has to be replaced with the heads, and the toms can be rather hard to tune due to the way the toms are held to the hardware. The base is pretty resonant, but, if muffled a little and tuned right, can seriously roar. My band does complain that it is over powering, and honestly, when has that ever been a problem? ;)

Drum rating (1 - 10) - 6 - Not bad, def. worth the money, and serious potiential with some changes to the hardware and heads.