A Very Unique Drumset The Peavey Radial 1000

Important: please use headphones or a good speaker system to get the best idea of what these drums sound like in the room. A phone or laptop is not a good sound barometer.
There are only 2 mics being used (besides my speaking mic) and there is no compression or other processing added.
What you here is the sound of the drums in my large recording room.
The drums are recorded from the players perspective.

Here is a video demonstration of the Peavey Radial 1000 drums from the 1990's. These drums never caught on and were discontinued in 2002.
They could have failed to gain popularity because they look a bit strange and the price point was high. I have to say though that this is one of the best sounding drum kits I have ever played on and I have played on hundreds of different kits. These drums were invented by Steven Volpp and Peavey brought them to market in the early 1990's. The concept is based on a floating shell with no hardware attached. This opens up the sound of the drums and in my opinion adds more volume and sustain. They are also very easy to tune and have a huge tuning range. I really like the way they sound tuned lower and I am using a lower tuning in this video.

This floating shell concept has been used before, the most obvious example being the Pearl Free Floaters as well as many high end timpani designs and I talk about this in the video.
I finally found a set of these that were an early version and they are in great shape. I feel like the earlier versions of these sets were made with more quality control. You can tell the earlier drums by the badges which are screwed on instead of a stick on design used in later incarnations.

For me personally these are spectacular drums for playing heavier genres like Rock, Metal etc. The bass drum has a ridiculous low end and the toms are punchy and have great sustain. I talk about the reasons why these sound great in the video and I do an extended demonstration. I do not have the snare drum for this kit. The shell for that is much thicker. I have played on many of them over the years and I am not a big fan of that thick shell and I feel like the drum sounds choked. In this video I am using a 1990's Tama Starclassic 14"x 6.5" maple snare.
If you want to skip to the playing part of the video here are the time stamps:
Time Stamps
0:00 Intro and discussion
12:37 Full Kit Discussion
16:50 Full Kit Demo

mics are an AKG C24 overhead and a Sure Beta 52 on the Bass Drum

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