Larry
"Uncle Larry"
I've been using them now for over a year, Puresound 20 strand, on all my snares.
Today I was messing around and playing a few of my snares. My walnut segmented wasn't doing it for me like I remember. So I decided to try changing the wires to what I had in stock, Blasters or Customs, that's what I buy, that's what the drum came with. I wish they would mark which model it is on the solder plate, I'm not sure which I used.
It improved the walnut snare to my ear. It's now like I remember, a beast. So I thought, hmmm, if I liked the old wires better on my walnut, I should like them on my other snares too right?
Wrong. I tried the old Blaster or Custom wires on my newest maple segmented (which I adore) and changed back to brass wires for that drum after 2 hits. The brass really brings out the sweetness of that drum.
I have a special order 8 lug brass Pork Pie snare I had Bill make me and I changed the stock wires to brass wires right away. That drum never really did it for me. So today I changed the wires. Oddly enough, the brass drum sounded better with non brass wires to my ear. Now I like it MUCH better. I still have a few snares to experiment with but I'm surprised to find out that just because I think I like a set of wires...that doesn't mean that those wires will bring the best out of a drum.
I find it curious that I like brass wires on the maple drum but find them lacking on the walnut and brass drums. I have yet to test my other maple snare, along with the ash, padauk and iron snares
Today I was messing around and playing a few of my snares. My walnut segmented wasn't doing it for me like I remember. So I decided to try changing the wires to what I had in stock, Blasters or Customs, that's what I buy, that's what the drum came with. I wish they would mark which model it is on the solder plate, I'm not sure which I used.
It improved the walnut snare to my ear. It's now like I remember, a beast. So I thought, hmmm, if I liked the old wires better on my walnut, I should like them on my other snares too right?
Wrong. I tried the old Blaster or Custom wires on my newest maple segmented (which I adore) and changed back to brass wires for that drum after 2 hits. The brass really brings out the sweetness of that drum.
I have a special order 8 lug brass Pork Pie snare I had Bill make me and I changed the stock wires to brass wires right away. That drum never really did it for me. So today I changed the wires. Oddly enough, the brass drum sounded better with non brass wires to my ear. Now I like it MUCH better. I still have a few snares to experiment with but I'm surprised to find out that just because I think I like a set of wires...that doesn't mean that those wires will bring the best out of a drum.
I find it curious that I like brass wires on the maple drum but find them lacking on the walnut and brass drums. I have yet to test my other maple snare, along with the ash, padauk and iron snares
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