What's your favorite sounding rock snare recording?

John Bonham's snare sound on Moby Dick is probably my fav. snare sound... that, or Carter Beauford's snare sound on Ants Marching.
John's Snare- (most likely) * 14"x6.5" Chrome Supraphonic 402 Series Snare
Carter's Snare-a Ludwig LB417T Black Beauty Supra-Phonic snare drum, 6.5x14" with a die-cast hoop on the batter side and a triple flanged hoop snare side
Both have very VERY dif. sounds but both are unique :)
 
Outshined was on Badmotorfinger and Matt used a (brass?) piccolo snare on that one. Superunknown used a deeper Kepplinger steel snare. Very different snare sounds, but both cool in their own ways.

Driving into work this morning, I had the radio on and a Chilli Peppers song came on... KANG! KANG! KANG! on every 2 and 4. Man! Does anyone really like that snare sound? Wow.

I love the Superunknown snare sounds and can't stand the Badmotorfinger ones. Both are great albums though.

What RHCP song was it?
 
Hm.

-Another vote for Pearl Jam's "Ten".

-Bonham.

-Jimmy's sound on "Geek U.S.A." on Siamese Dream. Most of the SP tracks have good snare sounds, really...

-I will shamelessly say Vanessa Carlton's "Be Not Nobody". Abe Laboriel, Jr.'s snare just has so much crack, I love it..
 
digital bath- deftones

toxicity -Soad
-both tama bellbrass

tics & leeches - tool (sonor cast-bronze)

no quarter - Led zeppelin (ludwdig supra)

crumble - dinosaur jr (guess a c&c metal-snare, dont know wich)

tannhauser/derrive- Refused (ludwig supra)

for today
 
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all of Bonham's snare stuff.

AND Stewart Copeland....especially on "Spirits in the Material World"

and love Carmine Appice's snare sound on "Break Song" from the Near The Beginning album.
 
Listening to Dire Straits "Making Movies" this morning. Nobody seems to record with that tuned down, dry muffled sound any more but Pick Withers snare sound is still enjoyable none the less.
 
John Dolmayan's snare on Toxicity. It's like awesome in a celophane wrapper.
 
Tough call

Steve Adler (Guns and Roses) Appetite for Destruction

Gotta be honest, between the band The Outfield and Guns'n'Roses ...great drum sound... made me want to play. The intro to Paradise City...clearly defined an era.

I was always weak for the late 80's fat-ness too

John Fowler brought the big stuff with Steelheart. Bobby Blotzer, Mick Brown. What's his name from Great White?
 
I've always been a fan of Green Days sound, the snare sounds great, I believe he had a vintage Leedy snare and on the odd track a Ludwig Black Beauty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCDdm2yjXY

Agreed. I never really got into 21st century breakdown but I love American Idiot, which also has a killer snare sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNul-doO2VA&feature=fvst

Check out "Blue Tulip" by Okkervil River, just heard of the band for the first time a couple of weeks ago. But it's a nice fat snare sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPHYFSRIxk

Umphrey's McGee- "1348"- Nice and punchy. (this is the only video I could find on youtube with the studio version of the song-- sorry that it's guitar hero, but you can still hear the snare. it also sounds almost like a sampled snare for some reason, but i'm pretty sure it's the real thing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81_rWs8jbc&feature=related
 
My favorite snare sound is Stewart Copelands snare on "spirits in the material world". That sucker cuts through me like a knife every time i listen to it!
 
I have always really liked the sound of Matt Camerons snare on Soundgardens "Superunknown" album. Specifically on the breakdown in Outshined. Absolutely perfect.

I agree. That part on Outshined was pretty beastly i have to admit. The sound of Matt Cameron's drums on the Badmotorfinger album where weird, but they fit the mood of the album IMO.

I'm glad to see that a lot of my favorite drummers are getting mentioned. :D
 
Alan White's snare on the album "Talk" by YES.
 
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Adler's snare on Paradise City is the one and only for me

That intro just sounds like he's playing a cannon
 
My favorite would be a tie between :

1) Mickey Curry's snare on Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid album. I love that 'loud crack without a lot of depth' sound. Bob Rock was the producer, so its very probable there's all sorts of engineering going on, but it still sounds killer.

2) Scott Philips on Alter Bridge's One Day Remains album. Great, powerful, with just enough overtones to give the drum presence.
 
Came across this thread and thought it was worth digging up again. The two snare sounds that have always stuck out for me are:

Jimmy Chamberlin from Smashing Pumpkins on their debut album, Gish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3wAtWywrP4

This snare, drummer and everything about this album inspired me and my playing to this day. The snare really is a beauty though, just the perfect balance between crack and body. As I understand it, it was an old Pearl steel 6.5 free floater.


Josh Freese for A Perfect Circle, also in their debut album, Mer de Noms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VdnEQVBPIw

Absolute peach of a snare sound, maybe the nicest overall drum kit sound I've ever heard in an album, fantastically produced. I read somewhere ages ago that he used a 6.5 brass snare (no idea of the make). This led to me buying my Pearl 6.5 beaded brass sensitone elite in the hope that it would mimmick the sound - alas it sounds nothing like it, but in fact works very nicely when tuned high. Don't suppose anyone knows which drum he used for the recording of that album?
 
Group: Supertramp
Album: Breakfast in America
Drummer: Bob Siebenberg
Song Titles: Just Another Nervous Wreck, Child of Vision
Snare: Has a crisp fat warm tone.
 
Deep Purple in Rock Ian Paice Living Wreck (once the effects roll out).

Steppenwolf Reborn to be wild Jerry Edmonton Sculldugery

If you have a listen they are similar reasonably tight but fat with snare depth and shell ring, love both.
 
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