The biggest novelty with the Silverstarkit is the adaptable sliding tom bracket, a bass drum-mounted double ball-and-socket holder with a genuinely useful difference.For more than forty years, the Superstar name has stood for groundbreaking design, superior build quality, sterling tone, and clear projection. More importantly, the uncluttered design, the small lugs and tidy isolation mounts all conspire to give the drums a fresh, versatile sound with absolutely no choking. Tama's Silverstar selling point is the birch legacy, but in truth there is nothing unusual about a straight-sided birch kit today. Very much in the Tama tradition of hardware innovation. Now you can swivel it out of the way whichever way you mount your toms. How often have you dented your knuckles trying to tighten a bolt which is awkwardly positioned between angled tom and bracket? Now this problem is definitely eased, allowing movement forwards or backwards by 4.5cm (1¾"), then locking with the drum key-operated bolt.Īdditionally, the eye bolt on the tom bracket can swivel around laterally, which is clever. With smallish toms on long bass drums we've often wondered whether drummers have difficulty positioning them exactly where they want. Versatility is also the name of the game with the adjustable tom bracket. The combined effect is of a terse trio of focused toms, sensitive to your dynamics, with a versatile tuning range.
Our review kit has standard-depth mounted toms while the 16" floor tom is fashionably fore-shortened at 14" deep. The coated Tama head was a little grainy and you might want to change to your favoured make, but we must say the Taiwan-made single-ply clear Tama Powercraft II batters on the toms and kick were impressive. The centre response is more immediate, rim-shots and cross-sticks urgent.Īs with all the drums, the tuning range is impressive. The 14"x5" snare is a feisty little number - it's amazing how much snappier a 5" is than the more familiar 5½". Incidentally, the yellowish tinge of the front head emphasises the classic look, according to Tama.
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Together with the dark birch tone the bass drum delivers a tight but full and rounded blast.
The Tama Powercraft heads, front and back, have Powerstroke-3 style edge damping flaps, curbing the reverberation to a manageable degree. Don't feel short-changed though, 16 is enough and if anything opens up the sound a little. The 22"x18" bass drum has 16, not 20, lugs. In addition to all this, the Silverstar comes with a complete Roadpro hardware pack, as pictured, with double-braced straight and boom stands, hi-hat and bass pedals and snare stand. However, the memory lock is not fully contoured to slot in - an unusual lack of harmony for Tama. This angular steel band, suspended from four lugs, sits right up against the top hoop and is much less obtrusive than some other designs. Tama has also revamped its Star Mount isolation bracket. With just eight lugs and thin shell, this is a noticeably lightweight snare drum. Its pull-away MCS70 piston strainer is neatly designed if a little fiddly. The 14"x5" snare has eight double-ended bridge lugs with a different, more curvy design to the other lugs. Also with rubber gaskets - elegantly moulded - are the deeply recessed bass drum claws. Silverstar has a new low-mass lug, a neat square-edged design set on rubber gaskets.
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Tama has marshalled these into four kit layouts, the review kit being the oddly-titled Accel Driver Five Piece with 22"x18" bass drum, 10"x8" and 12"x9" mounted toms, 16"x14" fl oor tom and 14"x5" snare.
There is also a handy selection of drums, with 10 toms ranging from 8" to 18", four 18" to 24" bass drums and just two snares, 14"x5" and 14"圆½". Tama's characteristic diagonal seams are present and correct, while what looks like first-grade birch displays a tight if unspectacular grain, sealed inside with a light brown stain.Įight finishes - five lacquers and three wraps - are on offer.
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