5 Best Concert Toms (Plus Buyer’s Guide)

DW Design Series Concert Tom Set with Mount Review

The stunning DW Design Series Concert Tom Set is the best sounding option on the market right now. Constructed from HVLT North American Rock Maple, these concert toms truly offer fantastic tone and projection.

The DW Design Series drums offer outstanding value for money, and they sound incredible. The build quality is first-rate; near flawless in fact. They also tune up excellently thanks to the True-Pitch tuning rods.

Sized at 6” and 8” inches respectively, the DW Design Series concert toms produce exciting sounds. 

When trying them out, I thought these drums were beautifully made and they sounded killer. The small shell sizes provided plenty of bite and they were so fun to play.

For the money, these are the best concert toms available. The matte black finish on the Maple shells looks stunning too, and the chrome hardware is really sturdy. You also receive a heavy-duty tom mount system with these concert toms.

Whether you are looking to expand your drum set in order to explore new sounds, or perhaps you require concert toms to expand your percussion, these concert toms make a great purchase.

Pearl Rocket Toms With Double-Braced Tom Stand Review

These Pearl Rocket Toms might be just the ticket if you are looking to add a new and exciting dimension to your drum set. Both of these Rocket Toms are sized at 6” inches in diameter but are 12” and 15” inches deep respectively.

These concert toms feature elongated aluminum shells that deliver a loud sonic projection and pure musical tones when I play them. 

These drums are also adorned with Pearl SuperHoop II hoops for a bright attack.

The Pearl Rocket Toms are perfect for drummers looking for retro looks and sounds of the 1970s and 1980s. Without resonant heads, these concert toms are very bright and punchy, and they sound amazing when used in fast drum fills!

Also included with this set of Pearl Rocket Toms is a heavy duty tom stand that allows you to position these concert toms easily within your existing setup. 

The Rocket Toms would also make a wonderful addition to any orchestral percussion setup, or pit percussion drumming arsenal.

DW Design Series Rata Tom Review

The DW Design Series Rata Tom is the perfect addition to your drum set if you wish to emulate the classic rock drum sets of the past, made famous by the likes of Neil Peart and Stewart Copeland. 

Constructed from a solid acrylic shell, this concert tom produces a robust, melodic crack. It’s super loud and it’s really great fun to play.

I owned one of these toms in the past, and I always loved how bright and punchy it was.

The hardware on this drum is excellent, as you would expect from DW. The triple-flanged hoops, Mini-Turret lugs, and True-Pitch tuning rods are all highly functional and they help this drum to sound as good as it looks. 

Overall this is a really high-quality drum that boasts an impressive musical quality to it. It’s very enjoyable to play within an existing drum set, especially when used within drum fills!

You can tune this concert tom to go really high, or keep the skin fairly loose. It sounds great however you choose to tune it. This drum certainly goes a long way in adding a little sonic diversity to your drumming!

Majestic Concert Black Series Tom 2-Pack Review

Majestic is a sister brand of Mapex, so these Majestic Concert toms have the same design as most Mapex shells. 

This setup offers two toms that have 6” and 8” diameters. They have birch shells, making them sound very bright and punchy. 

However, these toms have bottom drumheads too, which is something that most concert toms don’t have. 

The result of the added bottom heads is that they sound a lot warmer and they offer more resonance. 

They’re also musical and responsive. This makes them perform more like standard rack toms than typical concert toms. 

If that sounds appealing, these may be a better option than the other concert toms we’ve looked at so far. 

You can easily slot these toms into a drum kit setup with the included double mount stand. You can also set them up on their own in an orchestral percussion section. 

One last thing to mention about them is that they have a slightly bigger tuning range than other concert toms, and that’s another feature that comes from having bottom heads. 

However, if you want tight sounds with no resonance at all, these won’t be a good option.

Tama Mid-Pitched Single-Headed Concert Toms Review

Our last option on the list is a large set of concert toms with wide and deep shells. 

You essentially get a group of four floor toms here, but they don’t have bottom heads, which leads them to perform like concert toms. Each drum feels like a floor tom but sounds like a concert tom.

All the drums have maple shells that I find to be warm and responsive, but the lack of bottom heads adds plenty of punch and bite to the sounds. 

I had so much fun playing these, as I was able to play dozens of different patterns using a combination of all the toms. 

The benefit of having such large toms is that you can get far deeper tones than all of the other options on this list. This is excellent for orchestral percussion applications where you need deep tom sounds to play in a score. 

The two included stands are incredibly sturdy, so the toms barely move at all when they’re mounted. 

The toms are also very easy to tune, allowing you to get the exact sounds that you want without needing to sit for too long with the tuning process. 

The only downside of this tom set is that it costs just over $1000. That’s far pricier than any of the other concert toms we’ve looked at so far. However, you get two more toms here, making the package well worth the money you pay.