Ares Maple
Warm body. Fast attack. A kit that gets larger as the room gets louder.
Independent drum atelier Est. 2019
Acoustic character, modern engineering and stage-ready tuning. Instruments made for players who want every hit to have a point of view.
7-ply North American maple
45° hand-cut bearing edges
96h final tuning process
∞ stage presence
Featured collection
Built in small runs. Every shell is inspected, tuned and signed before it leaves the workshop.
Warm body. Fast attack. A kit that gets larger as the room gets louder.
Small footprint, serious tone. Acoustic feel with a direct line into the mix.
Zero compromise after midnight. Responsive mesh heads and studio-grade dynamics.
Dry, immediate and impossible to ignore. The centre of the kit, by design.
The workshop standard
Precision matters because emotion does. We obsess over shell roundness, edge consistency and lug geometry so the instrument disappears beneath the player.
Matched timber, graded for density and resonance before pressing.
Edges cut and finished by hand to match the voice of each shell.
Every kit spends four days under tension before final inspection.
No silent instruments
The Drum God began with a simple question: why should a serious kit look anonymous? We build drums with a visual identity as deliberate as their sound.
Online ordering is opening soon. This catalogue is a preview of the first collection.