interested in a VBX, anything i should be looking out for?

[abacacus]

im looking at a VBX in concord fade for my next kit. ive heard very conflicting opinions on it however. some people think there sound is enough to make young children retch, others love them.

the kit will be a 10 piece, but only 9 will be pearl/mapex/gretch/ludwig/whatever the heck i end up with, my CB snare will be a side or main snare depending on how the other snare sounds.

sizes will be:
toms:8x7, 10x8, 12x9, 14x11 rack toms, 16x16, and 18x16 floor toms with a 14x5.5 snare and two 22x18 bass drums.

the kit will be used for various things but mainly metal. anyhting i should look out for or idea's for a different kit?

[Genius Switch]

Check out the insane blowout deals that Mapex has going on right now. I was really close to getting a Vision but this was an offer I could not refuse. I got a 6 peice all-maple Pro M shell pack that also included a bonus Black Panther snare and two tom/cymbal combo stands delivered to my door for $780.

Tell them Justin Cope sent you.

http://www.justdrumsonline.com/store/c-503--mapex-blowout-specials-.aspx

[Akahito]

I don't know who told you they sound bad, and what gunk they had in their ears. Try them out yourself and decide.

[abacacus]

I don't know who told you they sound bad, and what gunk they had in their ears. Try them out yourself and decide.
i was told the bass drum had no boom, and the toms whent clunk.
the only vision i have ever heard did do this but it wasn't a VBX. it could also have been bad tuning.

[abacacus]

Check out the insane blowout deals that Mapex has going on right now. I was really close to getting a Vision but this was an offer I could not refuse. I got a 6 peice all-maple Pro M shell pack that also included a bonus Black Panther snare and two tom/cymbal combo stands delivered to my door for $780.

Tell them Justin Cope sent you.

http://www.justdrumsonline.com/store/c-503--mapex-blowout-specials-.aspx
i would, but for one im looking mainly at prices right now, i need to save money first im doing research now. and two, they have nothing in the size of kit that i want, kind of hard to fins 9 piece double bass kits unless you can special order parts.

[Akahito]

i was told the bass drum had no boom, and the toms whent clunk.
the only vision i have ever heard did do this but it wasn't a VBX. it could also have been bad tuning.

I have played many VBX kits at the music store I go to, and own a VSX myself, and the bass drum is the exact opposite of "no boom". :D Toms can go clunk when tossed down the stairs... when I play my properly tuned toms they have a nice and open sound, far far from "clunk".

Here's a recording I did of my Vision kit for fun, playing along to The Raconteurs' song Top Yourself. I think the drums sound fairly good even though I had only pulled them out of the boxes and roughly tuned them, and even though the playing is sloppy. :D Listen and decide, whether that bass drum has no boom. The original song plays on the left, my playing is on the right.

http://kirah.fi/~akahito/Vision-track-02.mp3

[EC Rocker]

Don't know which Vision bass you played that had no boom.. (was the pedal even on the BD? lol) when I kick my BD I don't get a boom, I get a SONIC boom! Feck me it's loud lol. Toms also sound great on mines I got's no complaints.

[Genius Switch]

i would, but for one im looking mainly at prices right now, i need to save money first im doing research now. and two, they have nothing in the size of kit that i want, kind of hard to fins 9 piece double bass kits unless you can special order parts.

Yeah if it wasn't for those Mapex specials I would be pricing out a Vision too. I have played two VSX kits and the bass drum on both kits sounded marvelous....even with stock heads.

[keaton_86]

I bought a Vision for my friend the other day, and yesterday I actually got around to playing it. I know you often hear people saying "Im surprised at how good it sounds" and you may shrug it off as just enthusiastic new owners. I myself just bought a new Pro M by mapex and i love it. However, the vision was in a word, flawless. It sounded amazing, the hardware was solid and the finish was nice. It was the older vision, with birch and basswood, but my god it sounded sweet.

So in summery, get one, even with the pro-tone heads it sounded utterly amazing.

[NYR Fan]

im looking at a VBX in concord fade for my next kit. ive heard very conflicting opinions on it however. some people think there sound is enough to make young children retch, others love them.

the kit will be a 10 piece, but only 9 will be pearl/mapex/gretch/ludwig/whatever the heck i end up with, my CB snare will be a side or main snare depending on how the other snare sounds.

sizes will be:
toms:8x7, 10x8, 12x9, 14x11 rack toms, 16x16, and 18x16 floor toms with a 14x5.5 snare and two 22x18 bass drums.

the kit will be used for various things but mainly metal. anyhting i should look out for or idea's for a different kit?
I keep coming back to this post an re-reading it wondering if this is for real? Take a look at some of the Visions kits that folks are putting up in the various threads on here and READ! Where-ever you got your info from brother, "young kids retch!" My VBX kit sounds as good if not better than my previous 3 Starclassic kits, my Sonor Signature, and various Mapex and Tama kits that I've accumulated over the years. Not bagging on you, but these aren't some cheap-*** drums were talking about here.

[abacacus]

I keep coming back to this post an re-reading it wondering if this is for real? Take a look at some of the Visions kits that folks are putting up in the various threads on here and READ! Where-ever you got your info from brother, "young kids retch!" My VBX kit sounds as good if not better than my previous 3 Starclassic kits, my Sonor Signature, and various Mapex and Tama kits that I've accumulated over the years. Not bagging on you, but these aren't some cheap-*** drums were talking about here.

i realise, its just that whenever i get hugely conflicting opinions on something i figure i should ask around.

and i was told they sounded horrible on a different forum.

[NYR Fan]

i realise, its just that whenever i get hugely conflicting opinions on something i figure i should ask around.

and i was told they sounded horrible on a different forum.
Understood, you're going to always get varying opinions from all angles. This is THE Pearl Forum so most of us are in that corner. Me personally, I've been playing for over 30 years, 20+ behind bands. I'm relatively new to Pearl (2 years and change) after 15 years playing Tama. I'm no "fanboy." I've played Sonor, Mapex, and even Remo( top line). I own 2 Pearl kits, my VBX and an all Maple SMX. I can tell you without any apprehension that IMO opinion Pearl makes as fine a product as the precision, custom drum builders I've seen out there. Feel free to check out my VBX in the Visions Pictures thread and you tell me what you think!

[abacacus]

Understood, you're going to always get varying opinions from all angles. This is THE Pearl Forum so most of us are in that corner. Me personally, I've been playing for over 30 years, 20+ behind bands. I'm relatively new to Pearl (2 years and change) after 15 years playing Tama. I'm no "fanboy." I've played Sonor, Mapex, and even Remo( top line). I own 2 Pearl kits, my VBX and an all Maple SMX. I can tell you without any apprehension that IMO opinion Pearl makes as fine a product as the precision, custom drum builders I've seen out there. Feel free to check out my VBX in the Visions Pictures thread and you tell me what you think!
will do!

i like tama alot to, there hyperdrive kits look really good to me.