Which album has the Best sound?

The night comes down sounds more ambient, but I still don't like the overall sound of the set as such - DeLaneLea is definitely preferable: as you said, one can clearly hear the added reverbs from the Trident-Sessions and it really sounds cheap-artificial.
But still the set as such, apart from the studio - I still wonder what kind of kit that was ?

Thanks for the link - interesting Rog mentions Stewart Copeland in the interview who sort of is the antithesis to Rogers approach. I do like The Police a lot, but of course the minimalistic thing was not really Queens attitude towards recording in the first place. But he refers to Copeland, which actually fits to the overall tighter Queen-sound from '78-'82, the era when Police was huge !

To translate the "Sound Check" article is quite a task and will take some time - watch this space ! :-)

Regor,

http://www.kingsmusicusa.com/ludwig.htm

Look, there is a 4-piece kit, a 1971 built custom Ludwig, used by Roger

Thanks, that's great - where do you get this kind of information from ??? Or is it just me not using Google to full extent ?! ;-)

Reminds me of the finish Rog used on the '82-Tour. What about the 3-ring pattern-thing - does that refer to the 3 different woods in the shell ? And did he play it from 1971 to, let's say 1974 ? Or did he just use that pattern from Ludwig '71 at some undefined time in Queens career ?

Well, that was a thing I thought about too. When did he use it... We know that he always used different kits on tour, but as far as I remember he used Ludwig quite a lot in the studio. He also used Slingerland, Gretsch later Yamaha etc.
I guess we never know unless we ask him per email :)
Btw, I used google for that using the keyword "Ludwig Roger Taylor drums -duran" ;-)

I'm gonna check some old pics to see what kits he used in the very early shows.
Maybe Sebastian can tell us, what kind of kits he used in the studio.