C&C Custom Drums
The brief and exciting story of C&C Custom Drums starts in Arkansas where a young Bill Cardwell spent all summer picking cotton to make enough money to buy a Ludwig Acrolite snare drum after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Thus began a passionate affair with the classic drums of Ludwig, Slingerland, Camco, Rogers, and Gretsch. A hobby, restoring vintage drums suddenly became an interest in building drums in 1989 thanks to a fairly auspicious request. “When Carl Palmer asks you if you can build a him a drum set with gold plated hardware, you say yes sir, Mr. Palmer!” says Mr. Cardwell of how he came to start out in the custom drum business. “I was able to incorporate all of the hands on experience with vintage drums to create a new maple kit with a classic look and sound.”
They offer two ply combinations for toms and kicks. The shell you choose depends on the type of sound you are looking for in your drums. Their standard shell configuration has been an eight ply tom with a ten ply kick drum. They find that these shells, with their bread and butter edge have a full sound with lots of projection. These shells are perfect for a drummer who plays hard and heavy, because they do not distort when played loudly (a problem with thinner shells). They have proven their metal from tiny rock club to big fat arena. Their standard snare drum with reinforcement rings will have quite a lot of overtone, the kind of overtone that is not for everybody. That is why they also offer snares without reinforcement rings for a somewhat drier sound.
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