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Jobeky have utilised the increasingly familiar ‘square-on’ design featuring chunky but lightweight tubing

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• Review

We think the constant set-up and tear-down would take its toll on these aspects of the kit, so it's best suited to occasional trips out of the rehearsal studio or bedroom where it's more or less permanently set.

The cymbal arms that support the (half) rubber-faced pads are standard hardware fare and are no cause for concern. The cymbal pads themselves respond in suitable fashion under the stick. The rubber areas mark easily, but there's no reason to believe that they will wear out particularly quickly.

Although there's nothing quite like whacking a big old sheet of bronze, these work just fine. There's no cool, pseudo hi-hat thing going on here, the Classic has a simple single pad for hi-hat duties; but then let's not expect more than is fair for the price, shall we?

Tubular Belles?

The rack is a 'square-on' design made up of acceptably chunky but lightweight tubing with just a couple of branches for snare and floor tom/module-holding duties. It's not a fussy, over-designed piece of radical engineering but works as well as it should once everything's secure. The length of the legs makes for a solid platform to build on and the clamps are sufficiently manly to grasp pipes in arresting fashion.

The only aspect of the rack that we really had a beef with is the fact that the clamps employ hex bolts, which means a) you have to use an Allen key rather than a standard drum key for adjustment and b) there's no quick way of tweaking the set-up. Instead of being able to grab a decently proportioned paddle-type wingnut to slacken or increase tension, it's a case of having to reach for the Allen key (which Jobeky are good enough to supply), aiming carefully to get it in the bolt and fiddling accordingly.

It's really not a big deal as long as you are not mid-performance, but it is another indicator that the Classic will be more at home in domestic practice or permanently-rigged rehearsal situations than for in-and-out-of-the-van live gigs.