Austin Vendor Sharing His Love of the Flat, Portable Traps A400 Drums

The owner of the Austin online store DrumOrDie.com is telling other drummers to check out the popular Traps A400 drum kit, also known as the "flats" style of drums. The drums have no shells and are light and portable, but sound good enough to impress pro drummers and drum magazine reviewers. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) January 12, 2012 - AUSTIN, TX -- Local online drum store DrumOrDie.com is now offering the popular flat, light and portable acoustic drum kit known as the Traps A400. Despite being known for being light weight and having the ability to fold completely flat (you actually can slip this kit under your bed, or tuck it into a small trunk), this kit has earned some surprisingly rave reviews from professional drummers and even drum magazines.

Modern Drummer Magazine writes, "The A400 is quick to set up and tear down, and it's easy to transport. The drums produce pleasing sounds that can easily fool you into thinking you're playing a larger set. So, all in all, the A400 offers a viable alternative to carrying a full-size drum kit around."

Rhythm Magazine writes, "Shell-less kits are a viable alternative, and this is easily the best so far. There's no way Traps could ever sound like a double-headed kit with proper shells, but … the sound's actually closer than you might think."

Also, MusicRadar.com gave the Traps A400 kit four out of five stars, and Mike Dolbear Drums Review summarized this flat, portable kit by saying it's a "good product that's getting better." Dolbear added, "I've now heard the A400 in a live application from both sides of the kit, miked and unmiked, and professionally recorded too. In the latter context, if I hadn't been told it was an A400 I was listening to, I'd never had known, as it sounded just like a conventional kit."
Local Austin drummer Mark Woodruff, the owner of DrumOrDie.com, said, "I've been drumming on acoustic and electronic drum kits for more than 25 years, and I confess that I fell in love the Traps A400 the first time I saw it and heard it." Woodruff said he decided to start carrying the Traps A400 in an online store dedicated to the drums.

Woodruff added that the kit is offered at the lowest price allowed by the Traps A400 US-based distributor, and that when he's on the phone with a customer, he sometimes can't help but throw in something extra because he wants his fellow drummers to experience the Traps A400 kit. "Any drummer who travels to gigs or rehearsals and has to repeatedly pack up and break down a drum kit, they know what a pain that is. But with this kit, you can literally fold it flat and tuck it into a small trunk with one hand. Plus, on stage it has a smaller footprint, and because it's quieter than a conventional drum kit, your band members and sound techs love it. All that, and it actually sounds great."

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