Minor annoyance, but the larger side-plate is more visually obtrusive. Yes, tonally-speaking, RIMS delivers that last x% of tone, so calculate in any inconvenience factor you might associate with RIMS to get your solution.Īdditionally, if you use RIMS with the Yamaha system, I believe you have to use the larger universal side-plate - I might be wrong on this: WIth Yamaha, you need to decide whether to use a YESS variant or RIMS - no free lunch on this as both have their merits and drawbacks. You can get around this to some degree by replacing the hexagonal arm/ball part with a longer version (CL940L, which you could shorten to a custom length with little difficulty. However, it may lack the desired fore-aft adjustability for some people (me) with the hexagonal arms and bracket arrangement. Yamaha - it is obviously time-tested, easy to adjust and apparently works well enough for most folks - I am in general agreement. DW should go back to the drawing board on this one and come back with an improved version.

Suffice it to say, inverted L-arms are an undesirable arrangement for numerous reasons. More importantly, in my case, it did not allow mounting of the toms (8' depth) low enough for my needs without inverting the L-arms. However as others mentioned, it is heavy.

Mounting a cymbal or aux percussion device was a bonus.ĭW tom holder - I've owned this track-based design and it does give plenty of fore-aft adjustment. Though I primarily use a single 12' mounted tom on my bass drum, I was looking for a unit that would give me the flexibility to mount two toms (10' & 12') when desired.

Though I don't expect my thoughts or conclusions to be authoritative for anyone but myself, I figured someone, somewhere, sometime might benefit from my time spent sorting out these details. No absolute proclamations, but a few observations based on some serious research and experiementation, which one tends to do before drilling a virgin bass drum on a new kit. Sorry for the length of this, but as you know Bill, I've been through this recently with a couple kits.

Cannon yamaha style tom holder