snare drum

I recently inherited this old Ludwig five-piece drum set. It requires a wrench to adjust the hardware and bears some similarity to the Ludwig Butcher's Block drum sets of the 1970s. This narrows it down to the right ballpark, but I am having trouble finding an exact match online. The rack tom...

What's your opinion on this combination? Is here somenone that tried this combo?

Recently, we decided to try something a little different and wanted to focus on celebrating certain iconic drum sounds. This is not a scientific one to one recreation type video rather celebrating what makes them so iconic. If you haven’t watched it yet check it out! There’s also a deep dive...

Greetings all, I’m reaching out to the collective expertise here with a question that blends drum history, sonic evolution, and design philosophy: What would you consider the first truly modern metal snare drum—and why? I’m not asking just about the earliest metal snares, but about the point...

So I've got a 1970s brass Ludwig (blue/olive rounded corners) that is a bit outta round. Was just curious if anybody had a way to go about remedying this other than the stand and pull method.

Hi I own a Yamaha 25th anniversary snare (see pic). Does anyone know when those snares were produced? I keep seeing 2004 as the 25th anniversary year of Yamaha but I bought this snare definitely before that. Thanks Michael

I need some help. Has any of you any experience with the Rogers Powertone snare 14x5? Does it sounds as good as the vintage Rogers snares from the sixties? They draw my attention, but there is not a shop near where I can try one.

Hi! I’m triyin to indentify this Gretsch SD. Can you help me? With year, and $ aprox. The hardware is too damage… Thanks!.

I am making a group with some people on the internet and my cheap Basix Classic Series 14x5 snare sounded like (yk what). Put some new heads and tried playing with the snare wires and now it sounds better; but I messed up the snare wire. In anyway, I wanna build my own snare, that sounds like a...

So a year ago I was given this drum by a friend of a friend who I did some plumbing work for. It was essentially part of my payment/tip for the work. The guy was aware that I play and this drum had been sitting around unused for a while because he had to stop playing for health reasons a few...

I own 7 snare drums. They all take turns being my "favorite". I'll play one non-stop for 6 months. We'll have some sort of "falling out" and it will go back in the case in favor of another. Today, my favorite snare is a 5x14 Pearl Sensitone Aluminum. What's today's favorite?

Hi, I often layer sounds in production or mixing to get the drums exactly how i'm hearing them for the track. I recently found oneshots (add .shop and you'll find the site) which has bulked out my sample collection. Anyone else know of similar resources?

Hello! I'm in the market for a 2nd snare and am looking for suggestions. I currently have a 14 x 6.5 Black Beauty and want something that gives me some different sonic options and still covers a fair amount of ground. I know the BB covers a lot of territory and don't want something that's...

Had a guy reach out to me and asked if I could make him a Snom! I said ship it my way and say no more! Here is a my build video with sound clips of the finished drum! Thanks for watching

So I recently bought a Sonor Kompressor Series Aluminum Snare drum. I like aluminum snares, and I think this drum has a great tone, looks great and the hardware seems well built. However... I wasn't crazy about how it was tuning up out of the box. Then I replaced the stock batter head which...

Crazy about the Ludwig acrolite sound, I paid a lot more for the brand new lm405c in China than in USA . But the build quality is too bad, the surface with a few flaws, the triple flanged hoop has a deformation, inside the drum shell is very dirty. Never happen on...

How many of you have or have had the DW Acoustic EQ Snare?! This thing is amazing! You really can hear and feel the difference because of those vents. What an awesome idea and invention on DW's part. This snare is truly amazing! I had the opportunity to play one and do a video all about it and...

This is truly one amazing drum. My friend Chris brought this over and I learned some really cool new things I never knew about! First, this wood is literally compressed from a large piece of wood into a smaller piece to make the wood as dense as possivle second, there's only two machines in...

Welcome to a very special Three Part edition of The Sounds of Snares! My friend Chris made the drive out to visit me and brought Three very special snare drums with him for me to try out and for you to learn about! Each one has an amazing story behind it and here we are diving into each one...

I thought I would try something new.. I put on an Evans Heavyweight batter head with 500 snare side and Equalizer snare wires.... after lots of tinkering I just couldn't like the the 500. It's to thick and heavy and at low playing had an unwanted raspy sound. So out with that and in with the go...