While shooting his How To Record Heavy Drums series of videos, Glenn Fricker happened to have a metric (because Canada) fuck ton of snares laying around his studio. So what better use of such a surplus than to do a snare shootout?
Glenn loves him some live snare, and has a serious distaste for snare samples. While I understand wanting an organic and live sound, I personally have a far greater problem with sampled cymbals and their lack of depth than sampled snares.
A snare can have a great many differing and nuanced tones depending on how you hit it, but for the purposes of metal, I generally don’t want that many. When it comes to cymbals, though, you can’t do a proper wash when they only sampled hits with the tip of the stick and none with the shaft (the “just the tip” problem). Hi hats are far too complicated a sound to simulate properly with samples, as the interaction between the edges of the two cymbals is crazy complex.
Just one man’s damned opinion though – and here’s another:
pete smith / March 17, 2015 2:06 pm
they all sound identical. great video
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Rob / March 17, 2015 3:41 pm
Nice video. I’d go for the DW maple or the Tama copper. Though the Pearl firecracker is just pure awesome. I would have liked some snare fills in there on all of them though, to get a better feel for how the sounds stack.
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Steve / March 17, 2015 6:00 pm
It’s between the Steve Smith and the Pork Pie.
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Joe S / March 17, 2015 7:00 pm
I heard that with professional equipment you can make the pulse $30 snare sound just as good as the rest of them!
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AirWaves / March 17, 2015 10:39 pm
This sounded exactly like Static-X
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