Which Crusade was that?Back in my day, you could get a snare drum for a sawbuck...
Which Crusade was that?Back in my day, you could get a snare drum for a sawbuck...
I can vouch for the Oriollo cast bronze drums. I got a "Dictator", cast Oribronze, a few years back and I love that thing. The damn thing weighs a ton and you can hear it in the next area code but talk about a great sound! I put die cast hoops on mine and I have it tuned to a medium tension and it fits about any genre I've tried it with. It's too heavy for gigging. Besides, I wouldn't want that nice a drum on a club stage anyway. For studio use it's perfect. Oh yeah, it really likes brushes.So I got a used Oriollo Bellmaker cast bronze 15x6.5 last week, 8 lug with 2.3 mm hoops. It was really super-loud when I got it, so I swapped out the power dot head for a coated Diplomat and the Puresound snares for some Grover cable snares.
It still blows me out of the room every time I hit it. The interesting thing is that the sound is noticeably mid-high, not high, even though it’s a cast shell. I think the 15-inch diameter and the fact that the shell is bronze-not-brass really helps. Plus, the 8 lugs versus 10 help in that way as well.
With the snares off, it sounds like a timpani when tuned low. Tuned mid-range, it is surprisingly crisp and sensitive. This drum is designed for mid and low tuning, though. In my humble opinion.
I can vouch for the Oriollo cast bronze drums. I got a "Dictator", cast Oribronze, a few years back and I love that thing. The damn thing weighs a ton and you can hear it in the next area code but talk about a great sound! I put die cast hoops on mine and I have it tuned to a medium tension and it fits about any genre I've tried it with. It's too heavy for gigging. Besides, I wouldn't want that nice a drum on a club stage anyway. For studio use it's perfect. Oh yeah, it really likes brushes.