newoldie
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Wow!! I purchased this today at my local GC after watching a Sweetwater video on how to fatten up the snare sounds, with Nick D'Virgilio -4 Ways to Get a Phat Snare Sound
(https://youtu.be/snA6WMTR2lo)
Product web site: https://bigfatsnaredrum.com/collections/big-fat-snare-drum/products/bfsd-steves-donut
While I don't heavily muffle any of my drums, sometimes I'll use a little moon gel on the snare or mount tom when mic'd up or in rehearsal. I have a Yamaha mylar ring that's been used on a bright sounding Premier snare, it did fatten the sound a bit.
After watching how easily the snare sound could be beefed up with this product (including one of Nick's other ways, which is to loosen 3 tension rods on the batter, which I tried and also works great), I wanted to have the quick option on hand so I could modify the snare sounds in the middle of a gig, so Steve's Donut looked like the right item. It has a hole in the middle so you can either play in the center and directly on the batter head, or on the mylar surface of the Donut- some other models have no hole in center.
After making the GC purchase while still in the store, I tried out the Donut on 9 different snares including a Ludwig Black Beauty. I was immediately struck by how the Donut cleaned up over-rings, snare buzz and rendered a clean fat sound. It seemed every snare's sound could be improved by just laying this Donut on top, as bad as the GC demo snares are out of tune.
Back home, I experimented on all my snares, same wonderful effect on each snare-- from wooden to aluminum to steel shells.
Can't wait to use this in group rehearsal and on gigs to mix up the sound for a few songs song or appropriate genre. I know some have made a DIY version cutting up a batter head but I had no spares, so I just anted up- used a $10 GC Gift Card, no regrets.
Anyone else using this product on a regular basis?
(https://youtu.be/snA6WMTR2lo)
Product web site: https://bigfatsnaredrum.com/collections/big-fat-snare-drum/products/bfsd-steves-donut
While I don't heavily muffle any of my drums, sometimes I'll use a little moon gel on the snare or mount tom when mic'd up or in rehearsal. I have a Yamaha mylar ring that's been used on a bright sounding Premier snare, it did fatten the sound a bit.
After watching how easily the snare sound could be beefed up with this product (including one of Nick's other ways, which is to loosen 3 tension rods on the batter, which I tried and also works great), I wanted to have the quick option on hand so I could modify the snare sounds in the middle of a gig, so Steve's Donut looked like the right item. It has a hole in the middle so you can either play in the center and directly on the batter head, or on the mylar surface of the Donut- some other models have no hole in center.
After making the GC purchase while still in the store, I tried out the Donut on 9 different snares including a Ludwig Black Beauty. I was immediately struck by how the Donut cleaned up over-rings, snare buzz and rendered a clean fat sound. It seemed every snare's sound could be improved by just laying this Donut on top, as bad as the GC demo snares are out of tune.
Back home, I experimented on all my snares, same wonderful effect on each snare-- from wooden to aluminum to steel shells.
Can't wait to use this in group rehearsal and on gigs to mix up the sound for a few songs song or appropriate genre. I know some have made a DIY version cutting up a batter head but I had no spares, so I just anted up- used a $10 GC Gift Card, no regrets.
Anyone else using this product on a regular basis?