Panic! at the Disco’s Dan Pawlovich Teams Up with Stratasys Direct Manufacturing to Turn Fantasy into Reality Panic! at the Disco drummer Dan Pawlovich has always been interested in exploring ways of making his instruments sound and look better. About eight years ago, after stumbling upon a YouTube video demonstrating 3D printing of a crescent wrench, Pawlovich realized that this innovative construction process could conceivably improve drums in a way not previously possible using traditional manufacturing methods. “This stems from when I was a young drummer with my first drumkit,” says Pawlovich. “I didn’t know that much about drums at the time, including that they needed tuning or what the T-shaped pieces of metal were that came with it. A couple of years later I started to get bored with how the kit looked, and that was the first time I took a drum apart. I repainted it this really […]

July 2020 Issue