| I got a Cosmic Percussion conga/quinto pair from GC. Then I added a Latin Percussion Tumba to them. It's an Aspire series and it's a pretty darned nice drum. It's enough better than the CP's to tell the difference, and for about the same price.
I would recommend getting LP Aspire congas and bongos. And for that budget you might be able to get the tumba as well.
Now the tricky part. How do you plan to arrange and tune yours? I was surprised to discover that there doesn't seem to be a real traditional set way to do that. Because I'm a bass player and like the low frequencies, I put the tumba in the middle, conga to the left, quinto to the right. Bongos on a stand in front with the larger side to the right. Currently they're set up in a root-third-fifth-flat seventh-octave intervals. It was a G last week but I think it's slipped a little. I'll re-tune before any real use.
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Last edited by Bard2dbone : 03-12-2007 at 09:44 PM.
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I've had the odd notion for a while to include some drumming with my solo bass looping stuff, but I really have no knowledge of brands, etc. Any first-hand experience?
