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ProMark Drum Sticks - Mike Portnoy Drumsticks - ActiveGrip For Secure, Comfortable Grip - Gets Tackier As Your Hands Sweat - Active Grip Finish, Oval Wood Tip, Hickory Wood - 1 Pair

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Size: Oval Wood Tip


Style: Mike Portnoy


Features

  • HICKORY WOOD: Hickory is the most popular wood choice for drumsticks due to its resilience, responsiveness, durability, and classic feel
  • OVAL WOOD TIP: Oval wood tip provides a dark, warm tone suited for multiple applications
  • LENGTH: 16 1/4" / 412.8mm
  • DIAMETER: .565" / 14.4mm
  • MADE IN USA: All Promark drumsticks are designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA at our Texas facility to the most stringent quality controls in the industry

Description

The Mike Portnoy ActiveGrip 420X is among the first signature drumsticks to feature Promark’s Patent Pending Technology ActiveGrip - a heat activated grip technology engineered to get tackier as drummers hands sweat and their body temperature rises - so the harder you play the stronger they grip. The 420X offers more power and projection erring on the larger side of a 5A at 16 ½” long. The oval wood tip provides a warm tonality on cymbals and drums and appeals to the widest segment of drummers.


Item Weight: 3.17 ounces


Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 1.13 x 0.57 inches


Country of Origin: USA


Item model number: TXMP420XW-AG


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: March 1, 2016


Color Name: Black


Size: Oval Wood Tip


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  • The sticks themselves amazing 10/10 BUT AMAZON IS NOT
Size: Oval Wood Tip Style: Mike Portnoy
Bought this as a christmas gift [originally] for my best friend & fellow musician [drummer] he is always super appreciative anytime I get him something but when I mentioned they we're Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater's signature [and explained the cool active grip tech/and why mike designed em that way or what the product info said haha] he was psyched, snatched em up and started paying on his backpack. He likes them I know nothing about drums other than what I know from being a studio engineer/producer/instrumentalist and osmosis, but he noted they we're weighted more than his usual sticks [I would assume reg 5bs not sure] and he really liked the grip tech - that stuff is really cool I could even see the advantages just holding them myself... All in all 10/10 for the company! ... NOW here's where the issue is I'm not going to rate these sticks poorly, for the non-care thats clearly put into storing [at this point any musical equiptment, even sticks - going to sweetwater or musicians friend &c - its always a bad idea!] these sticks in the bin, I'd assume haphazardly just tossed into a bin of them... because I had to send them back 3 times [and the third time I said screw it and hope my buddy doesn't care] First batch: they looked fine, until I was going waiting for my man to drop buy and just giving them a once over, and moving the packaging ever so slightly [in a way that REALLY made it look like someone just moved the packaging up, its a cardboard sleeve, to cover the defect and send it out NEW....cute] revealed a long scratch [ie through the black active grip technology], rotating the sticks I notice some more dings, and when I took them out all the way - there were atleats 3-4 dings in the black through to wood small but noticable... whatever, send em back - stuff happens! Second pair: Not as bad as the first ones but there were dings, a small scratch [through the active grip black tech] and looking at the bottom of the sticks they were scuffed like they had been dropped on the rounded bottom of the stick again damaging the, pretty thick mind you, active grip black "tech" thats on these promark sticks... part of the selling point! Sent it back... this time miffed Third Pair: Same issues, but this time I'm like man I feel terrible because this is a gift for my good friend, yes, he won't notice or care, but I DO! If It was just my sticks, I probably would've said screw it and kept the second pair but i wanted to get my friend ones that were NICE, signature series from an artist I know he likes or atleast thats a prolific player, and I wanted them to last [I'm forever seeing my mans piles of broken sticks, and if Im gonna pay good money I want them to be sturdy, to last as long as possible, to not have any structural integrity issues that I cannot see because they're internal perhaps!] 10/10 FANTASTIC STICKS highly recommended on all levels, price points great etc. LESSON: DO NOT BUY THESE or ANY OTHER MUSICAL PIECE OF EQUIPMENT [even a small accessory] FROM AMAZON <-- They do not care enough, period. Yes I used the official buy it [not even the buy new, and AMAZON is the first and cheapest - which obstensibly is the same thing but no I did not even do that, nor would I ever buy musical equiptment from a third party through amazon... but honestly THIRD PARTY SELLERS ARE MORE COMPETENT THAN THIS [most of them] but clearly AMAZON isn't ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2020 by AMKR 4 Lyfe LIVES!

  • Great sticks - but beware...
Size: Oval Wood Tip Style: Rich Redmond
These are great sticks. I prefer the size/feel of the Rich Redmond 5B to the Mike Portnoy 420x ActiveGrip sticks (which are 5A) but both are good. The sticks are balanced well and not 'sticky'; they are more comfortable and gentler on my hands than wrapping sticks. I have purchased these elsewhere and they last a long time with no damage to the sticks or coating (and I play hard with lots of rim shots). I think these sticks are actually more durable than uncoated sticks. However, as other reviewers have stated, it may not be best to buy these from Amazon if you can't inspect them. The sticks that were sent appear to be 'seconds' - the red printing on them is smeared. I initially thought the active grip coating was scratched and chipped in a few locations because there are a few white spots and lines on each stick. However, when I went to a music store to buy the same sticks, I discovered that all of them had white spots. Apparently, white material from the packaging stuck to all of their sticks, but not just where the packaging was located on the base of each stick. The white lines and spots were on the surface and were able to be cleaned/scratched off of the sticks, leaving the coating underneath in-tact. So, I decided to keep the sticks from Amazon because the sticks are straight and I don't care that the red printing is smeared. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2023 by Learn4Fun Learn4Fun

  • Get a real grip!
Size: Oval Wood Tip Style: Mike Portnoy
The media could not be loaded. I have played drums for more than 30 years now. All through that time, when playing active rock and metal, the inevitable loss of grip on the sticks due to perspiration has been an annoyance. I have tried many remedies - some included a Pearl-branded grip tape that was wound around the butt of the stick where the hands grip, sticks dipped in resins and epoxy materials, non-wood sticks such as plastics and metals, even grip wraps meant for motorcycles and tennis rackets. All have been useful to some degree, but not fully satisfactory in playing. The wraps virtually eliminated the possibility of using rim shots as they deadened the stick and would eventually wear off. They also dramatically changed the diameter of the stick. I prefer a 5A-range, but would have to use 7A-range sticks to accommodate for the extra diameter of the wrap. Likewise, all of the dipped sticks felt waxy and had varying degrees of success. I have been a fan of Mike Portnoy since 1990. In the early 90's I had the chance to meet him on Dream Theatre's "Images and Words" North American tour. I found him to be a fun and engaging player, a "fan's player" as well as an inspired musician. That his name is affixed to these sticks is a bonus for the "fan boy" in me. The sticks themselves are very comfortable to play, essentially a slightly longer 5A, so it readily fits my preferences. The documentation from ProMark states that the stick is: 16 1/2" long with a diameter .565". The real attraction is the new "Active Grip" coating, which ProMark describes as "heat activated and gets tackier as hands sweat and body temperature rises." After playing out in several styles and environments, I can happily say that these sticks finally accomplish what others have tried for many years. As my hands and the environment was rising, I felt I had a solid grip on the stick for the duration. No slips. Likewise, these are hickory sticks - and they play and sound like my other hickory sticks. As an added bonus (video demonstration is attached), Mike Portnoy's "signature" is an ambigram - it's the same both upside and down (think the "Illuminati" signature in Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code"). I could hear my inner 18-year old voice going "Duuuuude." Frankly, it captures Portnoy's fun personality to a "T". ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016 by A. Looby

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