Overall User Ratings

Peavey International Series II 5-Piece Drum Kit Customer Review

Feature:
The double braced hardware is pretty good. Fairly light weight, but it is sturdy.

Quality:
I have had this set for about 5 years, after replacing the heads with higher quality ones is its very good.

Sound:
This set sounds horrable with the standard heads and cymbals. If you can tune it correctly and get some decent heads (evans, remo, aquarian)its sounds pretty good. I also threw out every cymbal it came with and got Zildijan A Customs (just my preference). It sounds MUCH better after these changes.

"Good toy for beginners"

Feature:
it was easy to assemble and put together and the quality is good

Quality:
the quality is really good

Value:
its just a little too expensive

Desirability:
its pretty looking but after a while you might half to spice it up

Sound:
pretty good drum set you just might want to look for better prices

Support:
if your a beginner this is a great drum set

Overall:
over all this is the beginners golden drum set

"Great for beginners"

This reviewer purchased this item from Same Day Music.

Feature:
It would be better if it had tom arms and a 2 tom adapter

Quality:
pretty good overall quality but the heads mark up very quickly, and the snare head is low quality

Value:
would be better if the price dropped a little bit closer to $300

Desirability:
Pretty basic kit, but pretty good for a company that makes guitars.

Sound:
buy new heads, Evans G2 Genera sound great

Support:
i called wondering if there was an instrruction manual (this was my first kit) and we got through in a matter of seconds, and they helped us with a few things we couldnt figure out.

Overall:
This kit was far from perfect, but very easy to upgrade, for about $450 you can turn it into a 7 piece with a full selection of cymbals and decent hardware.

"satisfactory---great for beginners"

This reviewer purchased this item from Same Day Music.

Quality:
the pin on the underside of the suspended cymbal wont stay in place, so i just took it out for good. the snare head is worn very easily

Value:
its worth every penny

Sound:
the snare sounds a little bit...well, it echoes too much, so i took a piece of a t-shirt the size and shape of the drum head and put it on, and it sounds great!

"Pretty good (but that is coming from a bass player)"

Feature:
not many accessories. it did come with a double braced cymbal, high-hat, and snare stand thogh

Quality:
...

Value:
birthday present (5 years ago)

Desirability:
not flashy at all

Sound:
decent for a bass player like me that just uses them to mess aruond ant to have a band practic. i changed the cymbals and took out a tom ( i hate two mounted toms). Also i would concider getting a better snare drum

Ease of Use:
decent uff said

Overall:
i say for me messin around and havin a couple band practic over at my house....it will last pretty long

"Ok, if you can tune it."

Feature:
The pedal scratches up the hoop real bad. Wrap a piece of leather around your hoop where the pedal hooks on, it will help prevent it from being scratched.

Quality:
Quality is ok, I had to replace several tension rods, and lug nuts. They wore out quite easily. Like I said I had to replace the hi-hat stand. Shells aren't bad, but there is cracking in between 2 plys on one of my toms.

Value:
No this procuct is not worth its typical selling price compared to other items. For a little more you can get a Pearl FX, or if your in Canada a Pearl Target.

Desirability:
I guess they don't look too bad.

Sound:
Don't use the drumheads that come with the kit. Change them with Evans hydros, and resos. Change the snare batter to something like a Remo Ambassador. Cymbals are ok for practice. HiHat stand uses a spring, and is real noisy. The HiHat stand broke on me after about 10 months.

Support:
The support from Peavey is actually pretty good.

Overall:
If you think your gonna be really into drumming, buy a Pearl FX. You will be kicking yourself if you buy this kit. I bought this kit a little more than a year ago, and if they would have come out with the Pearl Target earlier I would of went with the Pearl. Basically this is only good as a practice kit.

"true story"

Feature:
includes all accessories, but not the greatest quality

Quality:
everything arrived in perfect condition, but again, not outstanding quality

Value:
okay for what you get, but ludwigs are cheaper and pearls aren't too far off. same with tama.

Desirability:
looks good, but symbols don't have good sounds, i'd upgrade to ziljidans.

Sound:
doesn't sound like normal drums...i blame the skins

Support:
i would upgrade. hi-hat stand uses springs...

Overall:
this product is good until you really get involved with it, i wouldn't replace the whole set when that happens though, just upgrade piece by piece (symbols, hardware, etc..) as you need it.

"The most honest one haha"

Feature:
The single boom stand is not very good, and the snare stand is hard to position correctly, and also the stool doesnt lock in place very well.

Quality:
The bass wrap began to come up from the floor tom ad also i do not like the tom mounting systems.

Value:
Far overpriced

Desirability:
Nothing very interesting, no patterns or nice ideas

Sound:
The first tom sounds okay, when re skinned, the stocks where poor, but its what ypu would expect with a low end drum kit

Ease of Use:
It takes a considerable amount of time to tune these, and nearly always looses tone after you finish, so you end up re tuning every time you start playing.

Support:
Peavey dont even mention the drum kit on their website.

Overall:
I would aviod and get something like a gretsch catalina mod shell pack or something, if you know where to get it cheap enough

Peavey International Series II 5-Piece Drum Kit Customer Review

Sound:
Good. Reccomend new cymbals, although ride has a great bell tone.

"i got ;fu;"

Feature:
and were did they get the seet the dollor store

Quality:
since i got these i wase ashammed to be in band

Value:
you can get pearls and do more

Desirability:
get real get some more colors

Sound:
my dog sounds bet then them

Support:
yes if you got 2or 5 hours to kill

Overall:
i should of spent my mouny on beer