Winter NAMM 2012 News
Brass shell. Black finish (obviously), Chrome hardware and lugs, supra-phonic technology whatever that is. I'm not a snare nerd. I'm a producer. The studio I work in most of the time has about 5 or 6 snares to choose from. Our black beauty is the standard model, and we hardly ever have to tune ours. Some snares are very finic...
This is a snare that I was not expecting to like very much at all. I was involved in a studio recording with one of these snares, and I first tried to not use it. I have been let down by Mapex before, but in 2010 I helped my nephew setup a Mapex set and liked the stock snare. I figured it was a one-off, because back in 2005 I played a Mapex s...
DW and affordable don’t usually fit in the same sentence. However, I am a fan of usage before labelling, and thus, I took home an “affordable DW snare.” It features a renewable wood source of north American grown maple shells like most of DW’s recent offerings this millennium. I have found in the past, the maple DW uses provides warm sound t...
I bought one of these snares back in 2006 in an attempt to replace an old wooden gretch I had been using non-stop for 12 years. I could never give it up, and this changed me. I now use this snare as my main snare when touring and recording, and have retired my 40+ year old gretch snare. OCDP claims their insides of the snare are hand-...
The Mapex Brass Master Snare Drum is one that comes in a variety of different sizes and isn't part of any larger drum kit that I'm aware of. I've used this snare drum in the studio where I was the engineer and not the player, as a session drummer brought the drum in with a few others to record with. He had some good drums in there but this is ...
If the job is practicing at home then this snare drum does the job. Other than that I would not recommend this snare. Pearl has developed a reputation of excellence and probably the leader of the drum world along with Tama and a few others. You can easily recognize the name and instantly know that they dominated the drum world. They are kind of ...
Well I was not informed of this drummer when I first saw this snare drum so I had to do some researching. Bill was one of the earl guys in the band Yes. Yes was a British band from the 60's and 70's that wrote hits like Roundabout and Owner of a Lonely Heart. They are still today and very popular band among jazz players and progressive jazz musi...
The snare drum probably is the most critical element to any drummers drum setup. The drum sets helps to set the tempo and really allow the rest of the band to follow along. Without a tight snappy snare drum the drums will fall off into obscurity in the band mix. This drum has a robust power drive that will create a inner tempo wi...
The Mapex Black Panther 13x5.5" Maple/Cherry Snare features: - 13" x 5.5" - 5.1mm shell - 1:9 bearing edge - Premium snare wire - 2.3mm Power Hoops - Natural finish I bought this snare as a replacement for my Pearl Joey Jordison steel snare. What I was hoping in buying this snare was to ge...
The Pearl Joey Jordison JJ-1355 Features: - 13" x 6-1/2" 1mm steel shell - Black Super Hoops - Masters double-ended lugs - Black shell decorated with Slipknot logos repeated around the exterior - SR-017 strainer features a vertical pull action for ideal snare-to-head for minimal tension and results in superio...
