![]() Use their barbels to sense food and pharyngeal teeth to crush and consume shellfish. Larger drum feed on hard-shelled mollusks such as oysters, clams, and mussels. Young black drum feed on amphipods, mollusks, marine worms, shrimp, crabs, and small fish. The drumming sound created by schools is loud enough to be heard outside of the water. During spawning, males and females produce a loud drumming sound by vibrating muscles against their swim bladder. Females can produce 11 million to 60 million eggs each year. Highly productive, spawning 20 to 30 times during a season. Spawn from January through April in the Gulf of Mexico, congregating in large schools in waters between 10 to 165 feet deep. Adults are found offshore and inshore along the coast, depending on the season. Juveniles inhabit shallow estuarine nursery areas and move to open bayous and bays by their first summer. Bottom dwellers, commonly found around structure such as oyster beds, docks, and bridge pilings. Abundant in the northern Gulf of Mexico, especially near the Mississippi River Delta. We are all doing this because we love it not just for the money.Native to the Atlantic Coast of North America from New England through the Gulf of Mexico and down to South America. Thanks for the opportunity to speak up and as always, I hope you love our drums but if not play what you love and don't hate. If you have any more questions hit us up on our site and I will try to check back here from time to time but it is not easy to look at all of the forums often. Sorry for the long post but I wanted you to hear answers from me because some people will speak as though they know what is going on with only their opinions and that is never good. We hope we can be around for a long time and we will continue to design and build quality products that hopefully will continue to appeal to drummers worldwide. That is why I always say, play what you love and don't hate because someone else loves something different. With that said, I have been playing drums and around the industry long enough to know that not all drummers agree on what brands appeal to them. And we have an artist roster built with guys who care about what they are playing beyond just looks. One testament that we have achieved this quality standard and that we have a unique design is that we have opened up with dealers who are very concerned with these areas including a majority of the Five Star Drum network which includes drum meccas like Fork's Drum Closet in Nashville, Bentley's Drum Shop in California. It was more important for us to maintain a high quality standard than to make a quick buck. ![]() The drum makers in Taiwan have more than 25 years experience and can build a superior product although the cost is a bit higher. Once factories began to open in China most of the major drum companies moved production there to save money but the trade off was sometimes less quality. The reason this is significant is because the factories we use in Taiwan were the factories who produced the high end drum sets for companies like Tama, Gretsch, Premier and a few others for about 25 years. ![]() We only build two series of kits in China and the remaining kits are built at high quality factories in Taiwan. We talk to drummers both national and local and listen to what they want and design from there. Crush approaches the market from the drummers point of view and not the corporate point of view that has been norm for so long. ![]() We also wanted to create a brand that will be around for a long time so we made sure to invest in quality and designs that are uniquely ours. So Crush was born from the hope to create the best quality drums for the best price (not the cheapest) and to create a brand of drums that we could be proud of. I also wanted to create and design our own lugs, mounts, claws, brackets, hardware etc which requires a large investment which could not happen at ddrum when I was there. We wanted to create a quality brand with good prices but not try to make very cheap drum sets where quality would continue to suffer. The reason we left ddrum was because at that time, the owners of ddrum wanted to concentrate on kits costing $699 and lower. A friend sent me a link to this post and I just wanted to clarify a few things. Here is what CRUSH says about themselves in response to a similar thread on another user forum. ![]() From what I've seen in person, they seem to be made very well. About CRUSH though, not sure I would agree with the "stencil kit" point of view. First, I highly recommend the MAPEX Meridian. ![]()
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