To answer the original posters question: Here is my Buffalo Kit made from Remo Buffalo drums. The snare is the 8 inch shell you see right by the hi-hat. The shell is 3.5 inches deep. There is no hardware and no resonant head. The sound is really dry. I converted this shell to a snare by cutting a set of 14" snare wires down to about 6 inches and then screwed them into the shell. The snare wires fan out across the inside of the head. It's a full time snare as there is no throw off. The tiny snare sounds like a hip-hop snare, almost like a drum amchine snare sound. It's very cool and very light (maybe a half pound?).