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Originally Posted by mrmike186  I am willing to bet that your budget could have many options on the used market, anything from a Tama Starclassic Performer, Grestch Renown, Ludwig Classic Maple, Pacific Platinum series, Pearl MCX. These are all pro quality looking and sounding kits that would work quite well for rock and pop. |
34% of all children between the ages of 8 and 14 pester their parents to buy them a drum set. Of these, 99.9% give up the drums within a year once they learn that it is hard work to get good. Add in 1000's of serious drummers that are trading up, and older drummers who have retired or quit, and you have a huge market of sometimes excellent used drums gathering dust in people's cellars. Quite likely a number of them in your home town.
Your Euros will go a lot farther getting a quality used kit than the budget line new kit. Even if the used kit is a bit beat-up cosmetically, in the studio sound trumps looks, and for rehearsal kits, few people care.
I agree with those who say 18" kick will be problematical for many rock drummers.