SgtThump
Platinum Member
I landed a maple DW snare locally for a really good price (I believe it's the 10 and 6 before they started calling it that.) I first put an Evans Hazy whatever on the snare side and a reverse power dot on the batter side. I also installed the "Blaster" snares.
The drum was super dead sounding, which I mainly attribute to the reverse power dot batter head. I kept everything else the same, but put a Remo Ambassador on it. The sound is more open and improved, but it still sounds kinda dull and lifeless to me.
I like more ring in a snare and really liked a Pearl Chad Smith I had, an old Tama Imperialstar, and A cheapo maple snare that came with a Gretsch Catalina Maple kit. All of those sounded better to me than this DW.
The main differences I see is that two of the snares I liked were metal and the cheapo Gretsch snare was very thin maple.
My question is around making this DW maple snare sounding "livlier" or maybe understanding that I just don't like this particular style of snare (lots of maple plies.)
Thoughts? I'm considering selling it and going back to snares with more "ring", but I'm surprised I don't like this one more (because it's a DW.)
Hmmm...
Chris
The drum was super dead sounding, which I mainly attribute to the reverse power dot batter head. I kept everything else the same, but put a Remo Ambassador on it. The sound is more open and improved, but it still sounds kinda dull and lifeless to me.
I like more ring in a snare and really liked a Pearl Chad Smith I had, an old Tama Imperialstar, and A cheapo maple snare that came with a Gretsch Catalina Maple kit. All of those sounded better to me than this DW.
The main differences I see is that two of the snares I liked were metal and the cheapo Gretsch snare was very thin maple.
My question is around making this DW maple snare sounding "livlier" or maybe understanding that I just don't like this particular style of snare (lots of maple plies.)
Thoughts? I'm considering selling it and going back to snares with more "ring", but I'm surprised I don't like this one more (because it's a DW.)
Hmmm...
Chris