{"id":28551,"date":"2021-06-02T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=28551"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:04:25","slug":"do-vintage-drums-sound-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/do-vintage-drums-sound-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Vintage Drums Actually Sound Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UO-KXo7B5ws\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;They just don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instruments are funny.<br><br>Sometimes you get a brand new drum or cymbal, and you swear it&#8217;s the best thing you&#8217;ve ever heard. Other times, you hear a 40+ year old kit and say &#8220;That&#8217;s the sound I&#8217;ve been looking for!&#8221; There are a few reasons for this:<br><br>Some say the more a piece of wood resonates, the more its tone improves over time. <br><br>Another explanation is that you associate the sounds of older drums with your favorite records: Ringo&#8217;s classic Ludwig kit, the legendary Gretsch kits from the golden age of jazz, and, of course, Bonham&#8217;s monstrous Vistalite kit.<br><br>So we decided to put the whole modern vs. vintage argument to the ultimate test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this video, you&#8217;ll see us compare three legendary vintage drum kits with their modern counterparts.<\/strong><br><br>The same heads and mics were used on each kit to ensure a fair comparison. The tuning is also matched as closely as possible &#8211; we were serious when we said the &#8220;ultimate&#8221; test. <br><br>At the end of the video, you&#8217;ll have a chance to put your ears to the test, too. Can you tell the difference between modern drums and vintage?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do vintage drums sound better than modern drums, or is it just a personal preference? We put them to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":28743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28551"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31642,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28551\/revisions\/31642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}