And the hoops are fully wrapped on the outside, instead of having just a 12 or 34 inlay. These are also the thickest and most well built bass drum hoops I have ever seen. Super great quality The claw hooks are die cast, which is another great professional feature unheard of at this price point. The spurs are very solid, and only have two positions Fully extended or fully retracted. These is a nice feature because they are solidly in place either way notched joints fit inside each other and so you dont have to guess in a dark club The tom mount is very solid and easy to adjust. My only knock on the bass drum is that the stock heads are not self muffled. But, this is a very easy fix and I also enjoyed playing a wide open bass drum sound for a change. It has a very Bill Stewart like sound tuned about mid range, and I found it useful to have better bass drum control because its wide open and boomy, so easy does it helps teach you subtlety with your foot. Also, with a wide open sound, you can get two tones out of the bass drum, 12 step apart by simply pulling the beater away, and leaving the beater buried. It was fun to play this way with the non muffled heads. I also appreciate the SLP logo on the front head in Silver instead of the traditional black. It matches the kit and looks classy Rack Tom The suspension mount and bracket work very well, and with the memory lock it was held solidly in place. The 7 x 1. 0 size really makes it easy to position. It tuned up nice and easyFloor Tom It was easy to get a nice tone out of the floor tom quickly. The legs are a bit shorter than standard legs, but the brackets are down far enough on the shell that you still have a good range of height adjustment. My only knock on the floor tom is that the leg brackets are not the clamping style like the rack tom bracket. Instead, these have a T screw that tighten directly against the legs. These type of brackets will gouge the legs over time and eventually will strip out with extended use. It seems odd that SPL would use two different types of brackets on this kit, but maybe these leg brackets are the same as on another SLP kit, so who knows Anyway, thats a minor complaintSnare drum The factory snares are fine, and I was able to tune this up and get a really nice crack out of it The one head scratcher for me on this kit is the strainer SLP used. It is solid black and made of plastic. Every other piece of hardware on this kit is chrome, including the butt plate. It seems odd that they would use a black, plastic strainer when everything else on this kit is excellent quality save the floor tom brackets. Also, I saw on other SLP kits, even ones with black hardware, they use a chrome strainer Like I said, this is a head scratcher to me. Why not use a chrome strainerThe strainer works fine, but it sticks out like a sore thumb Also, one of the drum key operated bolts on the butt plate stripped out on me the very first time I tightened it. Not a big deal and is an easy replacement, but the quality could have been a little better there. Overall, this is a great sounding kit and you get so many professional features for such a small price. My minor gripes aside, I 1. I have already used it on professional gigs, and everything performed flawlessly, and sounded great doing it. I am really impressed with this kit. Manley VOXBOX UAD Audio Plugin. Exclusively licensed by Manley Laboratories, modeled by Universal Audio. Worlds only channel strip custom designed for the ultimate vocal performance and production experience. Best of Manleys designs Tube mic preamp, optical compressor, limiterde esser, and three band passive EQFeedback style 6. B tube mic preamp with Mic, Line, or Hi Z input with Unison technology. Models entire VOXBOX circuit path, including transformers, tube amplifiers, passive inductor based filters, and optical gain reduction. Sidechain UnlinkLink, Output transformer bypass, plus final clean makeup gain or attenuation. Physical input impedance and front panel control of Gain staging and other preamp parameters via Unison. Requires a UAD DSP Accelerator Card or Apollo Interface available from authorized dealers worldwide.