After growing up playing an eight-piece Premier Resonator drumkit with a mere two cymbals, Alan Vincelette of Moorpark, California, decided to flip the script. “I now have a four-piece cherry Craviotto drumset with several cymbals,” Vincelette explains. “I really like this set kit for its tonal and resonant sound, and the cherry wood is warm like maple but with even more attack and an all-around great vibe.” The 2013 Craviotto kit consists of a 14×20 bass drum, an 8×12 rack tom, a 14×14 floor tom, and a 5.5×14 snare, all featuring 45-degree bearing edges, plus a 3×12 A&F Rude Boy raw brass side snare. “I tune that high to contrast with the main snare,” says Vincelette. The drummer’s Zildjian cymbals include a 20″ K Constantinople medium thin low ride, a 16″ K Constantinople crash, a 17″ K Custom Special Dry trash crash, a 10″ Zildjian K Custom Special Dry splash, […]

June 2019 Issue