Fat snare drum sound

[mapexmaster911]

hey everybody,

Im sort of drifting away from my pop punk roots and looking for a new snare sound. does anyone have a good suggestion for a batter snare head and reso snare head that will give a "fat" sound?

[Guinness]

I have finally found this sound. I own a Pearl Masters African Mahogany 6.5 x 14 snare and use a Evans Genera Dry on the batter and an Evans Hazy 300 reso. Drum dial settings are 88 batter/ 77 resonant if you own one. Hope this helps a bit.

[Wegadrummer]

Just try different tuning setups and head.. Try reading some in the "tuning bible", there are some hints on how to make the snare sound fat... http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/id4.html

[larlev]

I have to ask.....What is your definition of "FAT"????

[d.c.drummer]

Go to Evans drumhead's website. While not any drum (i.e. a piccalo) can sound fat, with the right type of head and tuning you can get any sound you want. Reer to the tuning bible and the drumhead website.

[rhydianjlewis]

IMO, all you have to do to get a fat snare sound is loosen the reso head until you get the sound you want.

But, if you are on the subject of heads, mabye a 2-ply batter (emperor X), but i have no personal experience with 2 ply snare heads.
And get a thicker reso head aswell, such as an Evans Hazy 500 instead of the usual 300.

But, like i said the tuning is more important.

[mind_drummer]

Aquarian Focus-X give me this fat snare drum sound :-)

[ege_the_drummer]

Generally, it depends on the tuning more than the head to get a "fat" sound out of your snare. I've been able to get fat sound from a whole bunch of heads, including Remo Ambassadors, Emperors, and a PS3 (all coated), and Evans Genera and Genera Dry (again, coated). For tuning consult the tuning bible or if you just want to hear what to do quite bluntly stated what you could do is tune the snare reso high and the snare batter medium to loose, or the opposite way (tight batter loose reso. I've gotten a fat sound out of both so either should work ok).

[mapexmaster911]

thanks to all for the input. very very helpfull

[Deathmetalconga]

I would think the deeper the drum, the more potential for fatness it would have, although you'd sacrifice crack and articulation.

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[DWfan20005]

I would think the deeper the drum, the more potential for fatness it would have, although you'd sacrifice crack and articulation.

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Im guessing the wood type wood depend on wether u got a "crack" sound or not. You definitly would not get it with Mahogony,my best bet would be using Birch.

[Skitch]

I would go with either a Remo Powerstroke 3 or an Evans Dry. Some snare lend themselves to a fatter sound. The old, 1980s and 90s Yamaha steel snare was a drum which was good for the fat sound (and these were the cheaper models). As suggested elsewhere in this thread, you may just want to experiement with your tuning. And just for grins, you could just get a sound control ring and experiment with that and tuning.


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[Drummer Karl]

IMO, all you have to do to get a fat snare sound is loosen the reso head until you get the sound you want.

Yes...that is one point of getting this fat sound.
Tune the reso head (which can for example be a Remo Diplomat or an Evans Hazy 300) at its lowest clear sounding note. When you`ve done this, tune the reso head up a bit (1/2 turn with the drum key).
Then do it with the batter head. I`d recommend a Remo Powerstroke or an Evans ST, HD Dry. Tune it to a good pitch, so very high actually, so that you get the best response.

In the end the reso head would be tuned very very low, almost to the lowest note and the batter head is tuned as usual (high).

Karl

[Skitch]

Yes...that is one point of getting this fat sound.
Tune the reso head (which can for example be a Remo Diplomat or an Evans Hazy 300) at its lowest clear sounding note. When you`ve done this, tune the reso head up a bit (1/2 turn with the drum key).
Then do it with the batter head. I`d recommend a Remo Powerstroke or an Evans ST, HD Dry. Tune it to a good pitch, so very high actually, so that you get the best response.

In the end the reso head would be tuned very very low, almost to the lowest note and the batter head is tuned as usual (high).

Karl

Thanks for the tip Karl!

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