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Yamaha Rydeen

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Manufacturer URL http://www.yamaha.com/
Features 9.5 (2 responses)
Sound Quality 9.0 (2 responses)
Reliability/Durability 8.0 (2 responses)
Customer Support N/A (0 responses)
Overall Rating 9.5 (2 responses)
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Product: Yamaha Rydeen
Price Paid: USD 329 USED
Submitted 06/10/2009 at 06:08am by Tennessee

Features : 9
5 drum kit, all hardware, pedals. Mine was bought used, (now unavailable new), so I also got the 20" Ride and the 14" High Hat. Needs Crash added. Mahogany 7 ply shell, Remo built the skins for Yamaha. Coated snare skin, switch on snare. 5 different colors, mine is Ruby Red. 5" wooden snare, 20" bass, 12" and 13" toms, 17" floor tom. Double lug construction. Even came with wrench and little bag attached to snare. Also available was a matching Yamaha throne, which I also got with my set used.
A great beginner set if you can find one, with some intermediate overtones.
For what it is, outstanding bargain, even when new.

Sound Quality : 8
I'm not a drum specialist, so here goes. But I know what sounds I like and have spent time around the music business a few years. The toms are great. The bass is weak, not much snap. You really have to mash the pedal to get a drive out of it. It maybe needs a rubber mallet with pad. Snare is pretty good, save that it is a wooden shell so kind of muted compared to steel or brass. But it matches the set well for tone and loudness.
Tunes up easily and seems to hold tone pretty well.
Paiste cymbals made for Yamaha, great for the price. High hat is good, offers lots of combinations of sounds easily since the pedal mechanism is easy to control. Ride needs a boom stand, hard to get it exactly where you can use it easily. I don't think you would ever expect this kit to drive a major venue, but in a small club setting, church, practice or small studio, that is where this kit shines.
I'm learning and experimenting, so it's fine for me. I looked at other kits in the $500 - $1000 range, this was by far the best. Glad I found this used.

Reliability/Durability : 7
I don't think it would take too much to damage the finish on this unit. I don't plan on gigging with this, and many of the reviews I saw on this kit, (Musician's Friend, etc.), showed people buying this as a first time kit. They obviously sold thousands of these kits, there are over 300 reviews on MF alone. Non-gigging, practice units, that type of stuff seems to be what people are using these for. But people obviously use this for small gigs.
If you move them a lot, I think your tone will be a problem.
The included hardware seems pretty effective, and it has some of the same hardware used in higher priced Yamaha models. Not bad. Still, this is not a set that I would carry from gig to gig. I do not think bags or cases were ever offered for protection. You probably could find them, maybe not.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Have no idea. Bought it used in a Pawn Shop

Overall Rating : 9
So far, this kit has performed for me just as I thought it would. I just started playing drums, been at guitar for a while, decided to branch out. I wanted something under $1000. Tried looking at other kits, it seems that you either get something that will fall apart in a month for a few hundred, or you have to easily break the $1000 mark just to get a decent set. There is not much in the middle. This is/was a wonderful compromise. Too bad Yamaha does not make this kit anymore.
I love the features for the price.
I think the bass is weak, maybe a rubber mallet pedal and skin pad would work better than the felt it comes with.
I paid $329 for the entire set, including throne and cymbals in a Pawn Shop. Set is mint, no other way to describe it. Dealer said a Father-Son team came in and didn't want it anymore. I don't think it had two hours on it. Still had the protective plastic on the pedals. I always haunt the pawn shops, you just never know.
I like it a lot, and would cry should I lose it.


Product: Yamaha Rydeen
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 09/18/2008 at 01:42pm by Proluthier

Features : 10
Remo Head.Bass drum.2 toms.1 floor tom.1 snare.
Considered like a beginner set.No cymbals included.

Sound Quality : 10
In the store, I compare with Ludwig, Sonor, Mapex and Pearl from 1000$ to 3600$ and the sound of this little Rideen was very present and rich.It cost me 680$ (canadian).

Reliability/Durability : 9
I tune it one time precisely and from that just littles adjustments where needed.The harware seem to be tough, a bit cheaper than the 3600$ kit but it is very solid.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never had to deal with.

Overall Rating : 10
From the day I buy it (1 year and a half now), every drummer that try my Rideen find it very good for the price. The only time I find a drum sounding better than this one is when one of my friends ask me to try his old school Coronet white sparkle drum...This one sound exactly LIKE John Bonham and Led Zeppelin.

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