This may be an OCD drum gear issue (obsessive compulsive), but I'm wondering if the current YESS system on the Yamaha Live Customs and new Stage Customs are not as "resonant friendly" as the Sakae-made Yamaha YESS mount.
I just double checked my post-2010 made Recording Customs, and the footprint for the two screws on the YESS mount (on toms) is much smaller than the current YESS footprint for the Live and Stage Customs. Here is a good shot of how much bigger the footprint is for the Live Customs vs. the Recording Customs (see attached images).
What do folks think? Andy (Guru) or others who are savvy with drum building and physics, I'd especially like to hear your learned opinion. Not sure what to make of this difference, and I have not been able to visit a store with a set of SCs or LCs to a/b against my RC toms. I do know that according to Bob Gatzen testing, inserting the YESS rod almost all the way into the YESS receiver actually enables the drum to resonate more than just inserting a bit of the rod into the receiver. I thought it might be other way round for those results, but no: here, more = more resonance.
As a separate issue, has anyone else wondered why only the "Amber Shadow" finish (pictured below) often appears as a "non-shadow" paint job? All of the other real-time photos I've seen of the Live Customs in "Emerald Shadow" and "Black Shadow" show a stereotypical "shadow finish": black ring, emerald or faint black finish with wood grain, black ring. The "Amber Shadow" looks more like "Amber Oak" finish.
I just double checked my post-2010 made Recording Customs, and the footprint for the two screws on the YESS mount (on toms) is much smaller than the current YESS footprint for the Live and Stage Customs. Here is a good shot of how much bigger the footprint is for the Live Customs vs. the Recording Customs (see attached images).
What do folks think? Andy (Guru) or others who are savvy with drum building and physics, I'd especially like to hear your learned opinion. Not sure what to make of this difference, and I have not been able to visit a store with a set of SCs or LCs to a/b against my RC toms. I do know that according to Bob Gatzen testing, inserting the YESS rod almost all the way into the YESS receiver actually enables the drum to resonate more than just inserting a bit of the rod into the receiver. I thought it might be other way round for those results, but no: here, more = more resonance.
As a separate issue, has anyone else wondered why only the "Amber Shadow" finish (pictured below) often appears as a "non-shadow" paint job? All of the other real-time photos I've seen of the Live Customs in "Emerald Shadow" and "Black Shadow" show a stereotypical "shadow finish": black ring, emerald or faint black finish with wood grain, black ring. The "Amber Shadow" looks more like "Amber Oak" finish.
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