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TJK

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I have always had problems having supras open up easily regarding the snares. I think the way they sound stock has a lot to be desired. I rally on in posts about the damn plastic straps but it is a big reason it sounds so dead .
 
Winston_Wolf

Winston_Wolf

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I guess I'm really the odd man out, but I run my 12 strand wires on plastic straps. I like a fairly dry snap and a lot of shell tone in most of my snares, but I've never really had any sensitivity issues with plastic straps.
 
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TJK

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Winston_Wolf said:
I guess I'm really the odd man out, but I run my 12 strand wires on plastic straps. I like a fairly dry snap and a lot of shell tone in most of my snares, but I've never really had any sensitivity issues with plastic straps.
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Well if you run them loose they do ok but they really choke up when tight. There’s a very small window of tension where the drum will go from choked to open with the plastic straps. The strings and fabric straps for that matter will give you a bigger window of openness if you will.
 
Winston_Wolf

Winston_Wolf

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I've used all three methods, and I'm still a big believer in grosgrain ribbon but on a couple drums I thought those sounded a bit choked so I pulled out some plastic straps and liked those enough to switch them out on a couple of my snares. I've never gotten along with string and even back when I used the older P-83 and P-85 designed for strings I worked a lot harder than I thought I needed to to get the snare wires evenly tensioned.

I wonder if our different impressions on plastic straps have to do with snare head tension. I tune my snare-side heads up quite high, and I feel like that leads to a much quicker snare response in general.
 
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