My Chinese-made (ok- non Mikey777 made) OCDP's sounded like dog doo doo. Way too punchy, too much attack, and basically NOTHING like the real OCDP's I've played in the past. And I also feel my playing suffered as a result. I couldn't stomach two hours of wood shedding with those drums.
My barn-fresh Premiers are a revelation. Each thud is more addicting than the last. I couldn't make them sound bad, but it was very easy to make them sound good. I never could make the OCDP's sound better than okay.
But with that addicting sound came better chops. I wanted to play these. I kept playing them. I would become nearly inconsolable when it was time to either go to work or shut it down because of noise compliance laws.
After I was booted from my last band, my confidence sank to an all-time low. But I had decided to work on my playing so I can raise my head high and gig regularly. Changing my drums was a part of the equation. Once my drums were changed, everything else followed. While I don't believe I could sit in for, say our own Bermuda, I am 10,000,000X better because I had drums that drove me to play better. And this is why I say that vintage drums changed and improved my playing.
