Padauk/Maple Drums with Bright, Open Tone
Equinox: the time of year when day and night are approximately equal in length. With hybrid padauk/maple shells that lend the brightest and most open tone of all the Black Panther Design Lab offerings and a gorgeous Satin Black finish, the Equinox from Mapex is one aptly named shell pack. Add to this the many innovative features that Mapex has outfitted this Black Panther Design Lab Equinox 5-piece Shell Pack with, and you have a kit that is destined to turn heads, catch eyes, and perk up ears. Savvy features include Master Tune lugs, 2.5mm single-flanged hoops, and multiple floor tom additions, including SAS static 90-degree floor tom legs, SAS attenuating floor tom legs, and Sonic pedestal feet. Meanwhile, its Halo mounting system suspends the toms under their lug lines instead of by their top rims and features an adjustment knob for "tuning" the shells themselves. Coupled with the SAS ring system and chamber-specific design, you'll find that your new Mapex drums have many options for sound shaping.
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Ring in robust low end
Mapex thoroughly studied how reinforcement best contributes to each drum's unique sound. By cutting the bearing edge shapes through the reinforcement rings themselves, the company discovered adding way to add more low-end projection to each drum.
Chamber-specific design
Mapex's chamber-specific design creates a drum set that plays like a cohesive instrument, bringing a lovingly crafted vintage tone to the world of modern drum technology. It works in multiple ways: as the drums get larger, the plies get thicker, the depths increase by half an inch, and the bearing edges and the SAS ring system change.
Revolutionary Halo mount
The Halo mounting system is more than just eye candy. It suspends the toms under their lug lines instead of by their top rims; Mapex finds that it increases resonance. Additionally, the adjustment knob tightens or loosens the system, resulting in more or less dampening of the shell. It’s an ingenious twist that you need to hear for yourself.
Projection to the max
One more touch that has impressed drummers here at Sweetwater is the Nodal Line Air Flow Venting system. By placing the air hole along a node in the shell, Mapex allows this Black Panther Design Lab Equinox pack to project its best without sacrificing any of the drums' optimal sustains.
More on the floor
The floor toms on this Black Panther Design Lab Equinox shell pack get plenty of love in the forms of SAS static 90-degree floor tom legs, SAS attenuating floor tom legs, and Sonic pedestal feet. First, the SAS static 90-degree floor tom legs maximize resonance by utilizing a 90-degree angle. Should you wish to dampen the sound a little bit, however, then that's where the SAS attenuating floor tom legs come into play — they allow you to change the floor tom leg's angle. Finally, the Sonic pedestal feet enable the legs to "float" and thus reduce kinetic energy transfer.
Single-flanged hoops and Master Tune lugs
Lastly, your Mapex shell pack will arrive complete with 2.5mm single-flanged hoops and Master Tune lugs. The lugs minimize the lug-to-shell ratio and feature a unique pressured locking mechanism that, coupled with the 2.5mm single-flanged hoops, results in you needing to tune your drums far less often.
Mapex Black Panther Design Lab Equinox 5-piece Shell Pack Features:
- Hybrid padauk/maple shells for an impressively bright and open sound
- Halo mounting system with adjustment knob maximizes sustain and lets you adjust each mounted drum's decay to fit your tastes
- SONIClear bearing edges make more effective contact with the drumheads resulting in enhanced sustain
- SAS ring system adds low-end and projection to each drum's sound
- Master Tune lugs keep your drums in tune for longer
- Chamber-specific design creates a more cohesive instrument
- Airflow vents are placed at nodal lines, thus maximizing each shell's unique resonance and augmenting projection
- SAS static 90° floor tom legs, SAS attenuating floor tom legs, and Sonic pedestal feet combine to make for huge floor tom sound and resonance
- 2.5mm single-flanged hoops strongly hold your desired tunings in place
Cymbals, hardware, and snare drum are not included with this shell pack. 
