Ludwig LR1025EC Accent Outfit 5-Piece Drum Kit

Feature:
Features are great! Comes with all you need except cymbals. Easy to adjust and set up everything to where you want it. the stands are stable and well built. The bass pedal is great for starting out but will soon find that buying a better bass pedal will do justice:however, the pedal will suite anyone just fine. The only real complaint I have is the drum throne. It is a cheap uncomfortable set. If you plan on playing for a hour or more the set has to go! Other than that can't complain

Quality:
The quality for this set is outstanding! It is well built from a great name. You can see that it it is well constructed and it looks great sitting in your room or on stage.

Value:
For the money, I bought my set for just under $500 and you would be hard pressed to find a better set for the money. This set will rival some higher end models with a few add ons and tweaking. You can buy this set without having to worry about upgrading to a better kit in a year or so. This kit you can hang on to for a long time and be satisfied with it.

Desirability:
This set just looks, sounds, feels great! makes even bad drummers look good :-)

Sound:
This was my first drum set. I just started playing not too long ago but it was very apparent right from the start that the drum heads that came with the kit had to go. It's ok for what they are but invest in a set of decent heads and the sound improves dramaticaly. I use the Evans EC2 heads and they sound awesome for what I play. I have not changed the snare drum head just the toms. The snare drum is a bit tricky to tune and a head change there would probably help as well. The Bass drum head is decent,nice powerful sound and beautiful sounding for soft playing. I will probably change the bass head as well later on though. The kit is a bit tricky to tune. I still have some things that could be tweaked but once you get them tuned OH man nice sound! One thing I had noticed is I was getting a "metal" ringing sound off the toms from the tenssion rods. Simple fix though just pack the tenssion rod housings with cotton balls it dampens the ringing sound without affecting the movement for the rods. Overall a few things and you have a great sounding kit that will hold its own against some high end models.

Ease of Use:
Starting out knowing nothing about drums at all it took me several weeks to get the "right" sound it is a bit tricky tunning the set. The set is very high quality though and once you tweak the set its an awesome sounding set. All that being done you can rock out with conficence.

Support:
I don't know what to put here because I never had to deal with any support issues as of yet.

Overall:
Like I said you can keep this set for a long time withouth having to worry about replacing it