Witterings
Silver Member
Hi All,
I've the standard snare that comes with the Mapex M series birch kit, I've tried everything from watching the video's for tuning etc and whils my snare sounds "OK" I'm still not overly happy with it.
I've changed the head and am using Remo Emporer but it just seems a bit lifeless still which is why I changed the head in the 1st place.
The top is tuned higher than the bottom and have adjusted the snares every which whey's possible.
At the moment with the recession I don't have the budget to just buy a better quality snare drum - - my question is how much difference might it make if I get some decent snares to put on this one and might it be worth my while ???
You touch some granted more quality snare drums and the response / immediate cut in of the snare is just so lovely and it really is a case of you can play less simply because of the sound, do you think it's possible to get close to that out of this one or just save the money until I can afford abetter quality snare drum altogether ??
Also how tight can you "crank it up", it's to the stage where it's quite hard to turn the key and I don't want to just destroy a head experimenting ??
Any suggestions / feedback much appreciated !!!
I've the standard snare that comes with the Mapex M series birch kit, I've tried everything from watching the video's for tuning etc and whils my snare sounds "OK" I'm still not overly happy with it.
I've changed the head and am using Remo Emporer but it just seems a bit lifeless still which is why I changed the head in the 1st place.
The top is tuned higher than the bottom and have adjusted the snares every which whey's possible.
At the moment with the recession I don't have the budget to just buy a better quality snare drum - - my question is how much difference might it make if I get some decent snares to put on this one and might it be worth my while ???
You touch some granted more quality snare drums and the response / immediate cut in of the snare is just so lovely and it really is a case of you can play less simply because of the sound, do you think it's possible to get close to that out of this one or just save the money until I can afford abetter quality snare drum altogether ??
Also how tight can you "crank it up", it's to the stage where it's quite hard to turn the key and I don't want to just destroy a head experimenting ??
Any suggestions / feedback much appreciated !!!