Hollywood Jim
Platinum Member
I went into a Guitar Center and banged on some snare drums. I discovered that I loved the sound of the Pork Pie Big Black Brass 6.5 X 14 drum. It even sounded better than the Ludwig Black Beauty 6.5 X 14 drum. At the time I assumed it sounded better than the Ludwig BB because of the heads and tuning. Maybe even the room had something to do with the great sound I heard.
Since then I have been to four other Guitar Centers and even a Sam Ash store. And at these five other stores the Pork Pie snares sounded about the same as or even worse than the Ludwig BB snares. I even tweaked the tuning of the snare drums at two of the stores.
My question is this:
If you took 10 of the exact same new snare drums, any metal snare drum of the same manufacturer, and set all of them up in one room with the same heads and the same exact tuning, would they all sound exactly the same?
I am guessing that with wood drums the sound would vary. But can the sound vary with metal drums of the same type and from the same manufacturer?
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Since then I have been to four other Guitar Centers and even a Sam Ash store. And at these five other stores the Pork Pie snares sounded about the same as or even worse than the Ludwig BB snares. I even tweaked the tuning of the snare drums at two of the stores.
My question is this:
If you took 10 of the exact same new snare drums, any metal snare drum of the same manufacturer, and set all of them up in one room with the same heads and the same exact tuning, would they all sound exactly the same?
I am guessing that with wood drums the sound would vary. But can the sound vary with metal drums of the same type and from the same manufacturer?
.