My wife just started playing, bought her first kit a couple of weeks ago, first lesson is tomorrow. She saw this out the other night and was mystified “it comes in holes?!” Haha, figured I’d ask ya’ll more about em?
I’m thinking about upgrading to a 18” china over my 16” Wuhan but I also want a smaller 16” crash and maybe some sort of bell.
Currently I have:
Sabian 15” AA Rock Hats
Instabul 10” Mehmet Splash
Paste 18” 2002 Thin Crash
Ziljian 20” Z Custom Ride (90s)
Ziljian 19” A Custom Projection Crash
Wuhan 16” China
I've been looking for a while to buy the model Zildjian ride used by Brian Downey on later Thin Lizzy recordings. Also hear it on Gentle Giant and early Blondie records. Anyone have it for sale??
I am exiting a ~5 year long relationship, getting my own place, and my only goal for it is having enough space for a drum kit. I haven’t played for years. I somehow know nothing about low volume cymbals
I’m not looking for the best, nor the worst and as you can see there are a range of price options. Please share any wisdom you have!!
These are listed as AA Regular hi hats, but I can’t find anything online about this logo. Anyone have any insight on these?
Switched from coated emperors to evans ec2s on the toms and of course from recent post, rocking the clear black dot on my 14x6.5 WB Snare!
Also added a new 8" zultan aja splash for extra effects, stacked it on my 11" but im going to add an extra arm to put it next to the 11" instead of on top. Just a temporary solution!
And finally after 7 months I have a place to setup my kit and let it stand for however long I want it. A new garage came free in our lot and now we're using it for a music box!
I found these old hi hats and I have no clue what brand they are. There are zero engravings and they are sliver.
Hi People, i've been in this community for a short period of time and i've seen that there's people that know this stuff. I want a nice pair of hihats for an upcoming show and found these in marketplace at a really good price ($70~). Does anybody know these Paiste's with a blue logo? the only information i got from the seller is that their are from de 80's, they look like their are made of a good alloy.
I'm sorry for the quality of the photos, but i had to took a screenshoot from a screenshot haha.
So, I really like how unintrusive the ride cymbal is, and I've been wondering if using it as an orchestral suspended cymbal is a good idea, as I'm not going to buy a whole drum kit
What do you think?
I bought a Meinl Byzance Vintage Sand Ride 20" a few months ago and I love it. however it only wants to sit in one direction on the stand. if I try and spin it to another side it just spins right back after a few hits. I really love this cymbal and I paid so much for it ($850 CAD) and I don't want it to keyhole. I have felts and plastic sleeves but I'm worried that over a long time of only rubbing that one side it's gonna keyhole or crack. how could I fix this or will it not be a problem?
See photos. 22” Thin Ride it says on the bottom of the cymbal.
I’ll send you $10 on Friday if you solve this.
Thanks in advance !
So obviously reaching out for more information is the best course of action…
I play electric at home and have recently got back into playing with other musicians. I have been using (crappy) rehearsal room cymbals when jamming/practicing.
I need to get myself hi-hats, crash and ride (second crash at some point maybe but not totally necessary). Sound good (enough) for jamming, maybe some pub/small gigs in the future. Play punk/garage/rock mostly.
From reading PST7s, XSRs, XS20s sound like good. Any ideas/advice?
Thanks in advance.
I've just cracked a 16" crash I've had for ages. I currently have a HHX Evo 18" crash, a HHX Complex Big Cup ride 22" and Zildjian 14" New Beats.
I'm playing rock/heavy rock type of stuff and think a 20" crash would fit best between the 18" Evo and 22" Big Cup.
I was considering the HHX Complex Thin but I think it's not going to have enough presence and projection. The next consideration was a K Custom Dark which I was going to pull the trigger on but now I'm also considering the K Sweet.
What would you choose and why, the K Custom Dark or K Sweet in the 20" crash?
Edit: Leaning toward the K Custom Dark but also now considering the Paiste Signature Dark Energy 19"
Could anyone with experience salvaging cracks around intentional holes suggest how I should file these out? Should I join holes, make holes bigger, etc.?
Thanks for your help.
(Please, if you're far more skilled and talented than I and came to tell me that you've played for 48 years and never cracked a cymbal, that I don't have good technique and that I shouldn't have cracked the cymbal to begin with, please, please do not reply to this post. Troll someone else. I'm looking for practical advice from people who've done this work before.)
Hi everyone!
Actually, for me as a drummer, this post is quite a sad one, but I could not keep this to myself.
In the middle of May, I purchased a pair of Zildjian Quick Beat 14" hi-hats from Thomann (Germany). My order arrived, and I immediately noticed that the bottom cymbal was pretty badly warped. You put it on a flat table and can clearly see around a 3-4 mm gap between the table surface and the body of the bottom cymbal.
Here it's clearly visible how different are the surfaces of the top and the bottom cymbals
My main disappointment is that this is a high-end product from one of the best cymbal manufacturers, costing almost $500, yet it arrived with such an obvious defect. This cymbal can't be played properly because it does not do its core job - producing the quick, crisp sound it is designed for. There are four holes to let the air escape, so there is absolutely no reason for the hi-hats to behave like Sound Edge or similar models.
How could such a product make it into the sales channel? Where is the quality control department?
But okay, this was not the end of the story. I reported the defect and sent the cymbal back to Thomann. Then... I had to wait almost 7 weeks for a replacement because of delivery issues during the replacement process. As a result, I was left without my money, without the cymbals I needed so much, and with a huge disappointment. The replacement process took almost two months, and there wasn't even any further reply from Zildjian regarding this case - just complete silence.
Finally, I received the replacement... and it arrived with another defect, this time on the top cymbal.
Again. Guys, we're talking about an almost $500 high-end model that arrives looking like nobody at Zildjian even bothered to inspect it before shipping.
Is this how Zildjian operates now? Have any of you experienced similar issues recently?
I was planning to buy a Zildjian ride cymbal as well, but now I honestly believe that would be a bad idea. It feels like if something goes wrong, you're simply left alone with the problem, and that's not what I would expect when buying premium instruments from one of the world's most respected cymbal manufacturers.
Please, share your thoughts.
Thank you!
Saw this Zildjian cymbals for sale for 35 bucks. I can’t find anything about this online. It’s a 10 inch Zildjian Band cymbal. Looking it up online I can’t find anything. Anyone know anything?
I have this Zildjian ZXT titanium 20" ride. It's served me well but for my band at the moment it's too bright, so I'm looking to replace it. The thing is, it seems to be quite rare, the normal ZXTs are more common, and I cannot find information on how much these ones go for second hand. I originally bought it for 244€ back in 2010 I believe. It's in a quite good state, no cracks or keyholing that I can see anyway, just some discolouration on the bright surface (this cymbal is bright white, not yellowish, I've only ever seen this ZXT titanium line that looks like this).
