Coldhardsteel
Gold Member
I've recently decided to stick with Vater because they're the only stick producer that makes maple sticks.
Why Maple? Because it literally sounds better. It's generally known that various things affect how wood vibrates, like dampening and such, and sticks are no exception. Grip heavy dictates how your sticks sound when you hit your drums with them, but what's equally as important is what the sticks are made out of.
Maple is a very popular wood in making drums because it resonates well. If this is true for shells, it's just as true for sticks. Hickory, in contrast to maple, is much stronger, more rigid, but it doesn't resonate as well or in the same way as maple. Thus, when a properly gripped hickory drum stick hits a head, it will sound different, if not have a less desirable sound, than when a maple stick strikes the head.
So, this is effectively blasphemy against Vic Firth and the like. Oh well.
Anyone in agreement?
Why Maple? Because it literally sounds better. It's generally known that various things affect how wood vibrates, like dampening and such, and sticks are no exception. Grip heavy dictates how your sticks sound when you hit your drums with them, but what's equally as important is what the sticks are made out of.
Maple is a very popular wood in making drums because it resonates well. If this is true for shells, it's just as true for sticks. Hickory, in contrast to maple, is much stronger, more rigid, but it doesn't resonate as well or in the same way as maple. Thus, when a properly gripped hickory drum stick hits a head, it will sound different, if not have a less desirable sound, than when a maple stick strikes the head.
So, this is effectively blasphemy against Vic Firth and the like. Oh well.
Anyone in agreement?