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Love your videos Mike. You're fast becoming my favourite channel (Nick at Sweetwater and DCP better watch out!!😂). Thanks for the ideas and showing how it's done with so much warmth and passion for drums. I'm plucking up the courage to add a tom holder to my Brooklyn... 😬

Cool project Mike. I agree way higher end than a break beat kit for the same $$ + time = Awesome .

as the proud owner of 3 stage custom kits, i really dig what you did here. the only thing i might have done different is stain the hoops, but that's semantics. really great work.

I would have loved to see that pancake drum be converted into a snare!

Excellent work, man! Very precise attention to detail.

I think it’s great, Mike. You’ve done an excellent job. 👍🏼

That thing looks amazing 😍

You’re very talented at DIY projects like this! Seemed like a lot of work doing this conversion I couldn’t do it without ruining something I probably would have just bought a Breakbeat kit!!!

Sounds great!

Love love love the DIY vids! Super work Mike!

I didn’t like the muffled sound that Aquarian gave it, I’d just put a single ply head completely wide open

LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!

This custom bass drum upgrades status of entire kit. Consider the cost of buying hardware and the used bass drum was a score. Proper Yamaha lugs, spurs, mount. Hardware isn’t cheap. The retro decal idea is brilliant. Entire effect is so classy. And, 10” & 8”stage custom toms in cranberry red would fit perfectly, so room to grow. Stellar.

Bass Drum Riser??

Not a huge Yamaha fan, but those look amazing! Would make an excellent youth drum set or, in this case, a small but still versatile set.

Those second holes are called countersinks. Could probably get more low end by putting that thing on a riser and getting the beater closer to the center. But a port for a mic would do for most situations. Fun project!

Nice job! one suggestion for future projects. Contact paper, both clear and white, is excellent when you have a lot of area that you need to protect and draw layout lines on. Also, you could put it on at the beginning of your project and leave it until all cuts were made and all holes were drilled.

Looks and sounds Beautiful

Bruh, great project, but MAN your groove is killing’!!!👍🏾👏🏾❤️😊 Ed Green all the way!!!

Mike, Great video! I wish Yamaha would make a 16" bass drum for the stage custom like that.

WOW- the kick looks so good. The red and light color rim is killer! - Nice work Mike!

2 of my kits are BD conversions....My Yamaha Rock Tour Custom 18''X16'' BD was a floor tom...GREAT BD...Stage white like the shell you ravaged..EMAD heads, pad,and a built in mic.I plugged the holes, used 2 of them for the BD spurs...My other kit is a 16X16..Wood hoops...My jazz Bd...Love conversions.I could use that white shell for my next job.....................Ralph Onofrio

Stage customs are legit

Excellent work!

For those wanting to flame Mike for the lack of low end, I'm sure a ported kick reso head would definitely help out. My preferred head combo is Evans EMAD2 or Heavyweight EMAD batter with EMAD Reso that's ported from the factory. But again with this being a 16" kick, I'm sure the application isn't to mimic a 20" or 22" kick for #MaximumThumpification

I think the one screw lugs are a great idea. I notice the lugs that have broken in the past of vintage drums are always the rear lug because just about all the tension is on the rear lug.

Don't discount that pancake tom. I have a purecussion shell-less set from the 80's and it sounds really good for a shell-less kit. The head choice will obviously make a big difference in the tone and if you mic it up, you might not even miss the shell. I use mine for teaching but would definitely bring it out to the right gig. Also, I love 16" bass drums for jazz, I prefer it over an 18" and have a 12x16 Gretsch USA Custom bass drum that sounds amazing.

Looks great! Definitely better than the other options. I was wondering why you didn't do a bass drum riser? Did he not want that? I do see the retro quality of not using a riser but I think it would be louder. The options are definitely a consideration, retro vs modern.

Mike, what a fun video and what looks to be a fun drum set to play. Your ability to modify drums in such a professional manner is amazing. I just love what you do.❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️

I have thought about this very thing, and would pay for you to do it :) not that you are offering ;) I have a honey amber stage custom and currently use a 16 inch floor tom as a bass drum using the pearl conversion kit. The problem is that it doesn't really save much on horizontal space...it's only 2 inches less than my regular 20 inch BD setup. IF YAMAHA offered their stage custom hip in honey amber, I would likely get one of those, but they don't. Doing something like this with the 16 inch floor tom would be something I would absolutely consider, or even doing one with the 18 inch floor tom. I know you have played the stage custom hip...what would you say are the main differences between this conversion and the stage custom hip bass drum? The hip would save more on the horizontal foot print...

Do you think you could have used any cutoff material to create the plugs instead of the dowel to easily match the finish, or is it not worth it?

just discovered your channel and so stoked about it 11/10

Very cool… good sounding.

Nice project maybe yamaha should make a bass drum in this size

Very nice work. Yes, I would be interested in a 16 inch bass. What was the cymbal? I really like one cymbal setups, and am searching for an 18 or 19 inch cymbal that is a ride that can crash.

Great work and lovely drum, thanks for the video. One question, just wonder why you turned the tom mount the "wrong" way compered to Yamaha's regular mounting for that part?

It's good to have friends.

Shout out to the round over outside bearing edge! I don't know why you would go for anything else. Improves tuning so much

Dude! Love your work on this. Is he gonna use a lifter for it?

Nicely done Mike! Love your channel!

Great result! Wanted something like this for a while myself

Thank you for doing this project, Mike! I couldn't be happier with the bass drum! The process was really fun, and it sounds amazing! This thing has been a work horse since we finished it! Thank you as always!

Love these videos, Mike! Been looking at doing something like this for a smaller bass drum myself, and now I think I will!

“You know, I love to tinker. But all the tinkering in the world isn’t useful unless it starts with a good idea. So, look around for a need, and start coming up with ideas to fill that need. One idea will lead to another, and before you know it, you’ve done it!!! See a need, fill a need.” Bigweld, from the movie Robots.

Super cool

Sweetwater?

😂😂

I love smaller drums as a gigging player as well! And I found the DW “frequent flyer” to be the BEST small kit to cover all bases! The 20x12 kick is such a great size, it can tune up for jazz. But it will go low / punchy as the 12” depth is just gonna have a lot of control. Peter Erskine designed them with DW and I actually like the kit for rock / pop / cover band stuff and I’ve used it at weddings for years! I also love the Yamaha stage customs too though! The YESS mount is so great and the birch shells produce such a nice sound for a tremendous cost!

Stunning kits! They sound fat as hell for such shallow depths. I'm looking to buy the raven black set. Yamaha knocked it out the park with these sets!

Love your videos, Mike. Especially when you restore/work on the drums. You’ve also sold me on tom mounting from the bass drum. All my bass drums have that now. So much easier to set up. Thank you.