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Want to save £1,200 ?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:12:30 +0000

We’ve just taken delivery of the new TD-12KX, and as promised we’re putting up a quick blog post to let you know. With improvements more or less across the board, including the mesh heads, the support frame and the module there is bound to be something to impress you.

TD-12KX Roland TD-12KX Electronic Drum Kit w Mesh Heads

If you want to look at a bit more information about the kit head on over to its product page by clicking here

To clear the shelves of it’s predecessor, and make room for the stock of the new ones, we have knocked a massive £1,200 off the standard retail price of the previous model, the TD-12KV with Black Pads. If you want to snap up a bargain on the last few we have remaining then head along to it’s product page by clicking here. Even though it’s the older model, thats still a whole lot of kit for not a lot of money!

NDC

Counting down the days

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:19:54 +0000

We’re all sitting with bated breath here are Newcastle Drum Centre.

We’re awaiting a delivery coming in with a whole new set of electronic kits, such as the Yamaha DTX 900K and the DTX 950k, as well as the Roland TD-12KX. So if you’re a Yamaha fan or a Roland fan, we’re sure to have something in shortly to suit you!

A couple of quick videos to show you these awesome kits while we wait not so patiently…

Yamaha

Roland

If you want to be kept up to date on these two lovely kits, go over to our main online store site and use the sign up to newsletter box on the left hand side of the page.

NDC

Snares and stick trickery

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:33:24 +0000

We’ve recently taken delivery of the new series of Black Panther snares that were announced at this year’s NAMM show. With a massive range of 14 new snares, each with their own distinctive sound and look, there is sure to be one in there that suits your taste / music. We’re even offering up to 25% of each snare to mark their launch, so get along to the sales page to find out more about them.

2010
Black
Panther
Snares

The Stinger

The Phantom

The Blade

The Cherry Bomb

The Fastback

The Black Widow

The Blaster

The Machete

The Brass Cat

The Velvetone

The Sledge Hammer

The Phat Bob

The Panther

The Retrosonic

And if you are going to be getting a new snare, why not learn a new stick trick to really show it off with. We stumbled across this video recently and thought you all might like to see it as well:

Impressive stuff eh?

And finally, we’re still not seeing many pics for the “Show us your kit” section, so get sending them in!

NDC

It’s squealy good!

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:38:47 +0000

It’s been a long two months since we said goodbye to our last Pork Pie Little Squealer kit and now they’re back and better than ever. This time in stunning blood red sparkle high gloss lacquer which you really can see your face in! Classic pro quality chrome fittings with isolated rims mounts complete the sexy looks, as you can see below;

(click to enlarge)

Pork Pie Little Squealer - Blood Red	Pork Pie Little Squealer - Front View
Pork Pie Little Squealer - Bass Close Up	Pork Pie Little Squealer - Rack Tom Close Up

The sound – huge. Supplied with coated single ply heads the toms still manage to deliver a pre-EQ’d beef and resonance that sounds like it’s been through a recording studio already. Thin all maple shells and razor sharp bearing edges (the best in the business we’re told) like this are very hard to find on a kit of this price.

We all want one, would owning three drum kits be too much i have to ask myself?

If you want to see a bit more about it on the site, click here.

Dan / NDC

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A fond farewell

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:10:46 +0000

Recently we’ve been the happy recipients of a Drum Art snare drum, beautifully made using stave block construction and a Pandouk shell. Before we tell you any more about it, lets get to what you really want and show you a few photos of it:

Drumart Padouk Snare Close Up Shot

Drumart Padouk Snare Wide Shot

Drumart Padouk Snare Underneath Detail

As with everything we get in store, we like to give it a bit of a test run so we can be confident of what we are saying when talking to customers if they have any questions about something they want to buy. With the Drumart snare we gave it to Guy to put through it’s paces and report back on, and he had this to say:

“Having tried it out I can safely say that I’ve never experienced a drum with such a wide dynamic range. Although it was made with classical music in mind, it’s warm lows and crisp highs make it perfect for rock music and it reminiscent of classic 70s Ludwig and Gretsch snares. At over an inch thick the unusual shell really gives this snare quite some beef!”

We’re sad to see this test model go back to the supplier, but we really did enjoy having the chance to give it a try out while it was in the store. Thanks have to go to Pete at Proel for the loan of the snare and we’re happy to report that all Drum Art snares are now available to order with prices on application via Newcastle Drum Centre. Take a look at the Drum Art site and draw yourself up a wish list.

http://www.drumart.it/home_en.html

Happy Drumming, NDC!