Larry
"Uncle Larry"
I've been using Puresound's brass wires on all 6 of my favorite snares for probably 3 years now
Initially I was like this is the cat's pajamas...
One by one, they are coming off in favor of either Blasters or Puresound's Custom series.
The brass has super good articulation and has it's uses. I imagine if someone needed a thin orchestral snare tone on a drum with a 2mm snare side head with the PS brass wires, that to me would be the ultimate in sensitivity.
But here's the rub, the brass wires...loses the ballsy low end that the carbon steel wires have. Especially at lower, looser tunings. I was so enamoured with the high end articulation of the brass wires that I didn't notice the low end ball loss. Bad Larry!
The brass wires sound better on a high tuned drum. But on a low tuned drum I'm not digging it
I was trying to get this great (to me) low tuned, loose wired, sloppy, sloshy, snare sound I really dig. This was on my Carolina steambent birdseye maple snare 14 x 6. Which made that sound great when I first got it. The other day I just couldn't get that sound from it no matter what I did. I do know the formula. Papery is the sound I was getting at the lower tunings.
So I deduced that it was the wires and sho' nuff that was it. I have no problem and even like the brass wires on my maple Guru, but I am probably going to try and see if I like the PS Custom's carbon steel wires even better. I forget what they sound like on that drum.
The moral of this story I'll leave to you. Other than I can't trust my own ears sometimes, I'd like to hear your take
Initially I was like this is the cat's pajamas...
One by one, they are coming off in favor of either Blasters or Puresound's Custom series.
The brass has super good articulation and has it's uses. I imagine if someone needed a thin orchestral snare tone on a drum with a 2mm snare side head with the PS brass wires, that to me would be the ultimate in sensitivity.
But here's the rub, the brass wires...loses the ballsy low end that the carbon steel wires have. Especially at lower, looser tunings. I was so enamoured with the high end articulation of the brass wires that I didn't notice the low end ball loss. Bad Larry!
The brass wires sound better on a high tuned drum. But on a low tuned drum I'm not digging it
I was trying to get this great (to me) low tuned, loose wired, sloppy, sloshy, snare sound I really dig. This was on my Carolina steambent birdseye maple snare 14 x 6. Which made that sound great when I first got it. The other day I just couldn't get that sound from it no matter what I did. I do know the formula. Papery is the sound I was getting at the lower tunings.
So I deduced that it was the wires and sho' nuff that was it. I have no problem and even like the brass wires on my maple Guru, but I am probably going to try and see if I like the PS Custom's carbon steel wires even better. I forget what they sound like on that drum.
The moral of this story I'll leave to you. Other than I can't trust my own ears sometimes, I'd like to hear your take