The Journey of a Pearl Music City Custom Drum Kit with Nick D’Virgilio

More factory tours like this Electro-Harmonix Factory Tour 👉 Join Nick D’Virgilio as he heads down to the Pearl factory in Nashville to witness the birth of a Music City Custom drum kit. You’ll get to see how the kit is built, then Nick takes the drums out on a gig with his acclaimed band Spock’s Beard. Finally, Nick brings the drums back to Sweetwater Studios to record a session for his band Big Big Train (and where they remain as our house drum kit). Pearl’s Superior Shell Technology is a proprietary technique that makes Music City Custom drums superior air chambers. Select woods are chosen based on their unique acoustic properties and are milled to optimal thickness with overlapping scarf joint seams for an airtight fit. Then the wood plies are saturated with Pearl’s special AcoustiGlue, which permeates every pore and dries to the exact consistency of the wood for phenomenal resonance. Lastly, th