Addictive Drums 2: Boutique Mallets ADpak

Take one look at this kit and you know it’s going to sound different.

Drums don’t come a lot more organic than these Finnish beauties. Since 1998 Wacco have turned out beautiful wooden kicks, toms and snares (some literally carved out from single slices of tree), heat treated, beautifully finished with natural satin oil, and tuned to perfection with traditional rope-tensioned lugs to give a natural sound like no other.

We paired the kit with dry cymbals from the Meinl Byzance series, trashy and low with a sandblasted smoothness. It’s the kind attention to detail that shines through in the sound. Warm and natural, and as organic as the stuff it’s made of.

All the drums were played with both sticks and mallets, with atmospheric cymbal swells to swish you into a whole new direction.