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[musiqman]

Some new pies got in over the week. ��

These are a thin 24” K Sound Lab prototype and thin 20” K Sound Lab prototype.

A match made in heaven with my 15” K Sound Lab prototype hihat set.

[Josh Conover]

Those are some great cymbals and a nice collection. How do you choose which ones to play.

Thanks!

I usually just make sure they are the same size and the heavier cymbal is usually on the bottom. Lol.

I do play the 12" ReMix series hi hats upside-down though. The "top" cymbal is a little too light and flexible.

Some new pies got in over the week. ?003f003f?003f003f These are a thin 24” K Sound Lab prototype and thin 20” K Sound Lab prototype. A match made in heaven with my 15” K Sound Lab prototype hihat set.

Nice! They both appear to be Light rides! I wish they'd have made a 20" or 21" K Light ride. I'd for sure use it as my main crash over the hats...

[musiqman]

They have some resemblance with the light series and some additional qualities.

[Josh Conover]

They have some resemblance with the light series and some additional qualities.

Awesome score man! Are they both lathed/finished the same on the bottom side? I'm super curious about this 20" model... I've never seen anything like it except for the 22" and 24" K Light rides.

[Thrush]

Scored another Z Custom medium crash, this time an 18". That's three so far this year - clearly I have a problem..!

[2 basses4life]

Anyone ever seen this before: spotted a pair of Dyno Beat's while scrolling through eBay, but I've never seen any with additional vent holes before. Nothing in the description about them being custom (or about them at all) and looking at the pics, although hard to tell as they're not the highest res, they don't look home-made

i would assume that the original owner, purchased at set of the original K/Z hats in the late 80's, these hats featured vented bottoms hats .
then, later, decided he wanted a more aggressive sound ,, notice your hats BOTH have the hexagon pattern? A standard set of dyno beats would've had a star pattern on the top hats if purchased in pairs

[musiqman]

The bottom view of both.

And their sounds (iphone recording):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFeEfcPp...d=x8k5eb5g02ht

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFhW9G8J...d=y9it8ihnrz1y

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFhrbVV...d=4v02ep306dbb

[musiqman]

The dates are:
24”(2006), 20”(2003), and 15” (2013).

[Thrush]

i would assume that the original owner, purchased at set of the original K/Z hats in the late 80's, these hats featured vented bottoms hats .
then, later, decided he wanted a more aggressive sound ,, notice your hats BOTH have the hexagon pattern? A standard set of dyno beats would've had a star pattern on the top hats if purchased in pairs

Interesting - I've played a couple sets of K/Z's and never seen vented Z's before. The first iteration of Dyno Beats (in the original Z range) had one "dimpled" star and one hex stamped cymbal, but when the Z's were replaced by the Z Custom range, both cymbals featured the hex stamping.

[Josh Conover]

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16 inch: K Light top/bottom, K Sweet top, Avedis top/bottom, and a Constantinople crash used as a top!




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15 inch: Vintage New Beat top/bottom, K Fat Prototype top/bottom, K Custom Special Dry top/bottom, K Light top, K Sweet top.




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14 inch: old New Beat bottom, A Mastersound Brilliant bottom, original K Custom Special Dry bottom, K Custom Special Dry FX top, New Beat top/bottom, and three ReMix series crashes used as tops!




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And the runts of the group: 12” ReMix series top/bottom, 13” ReMix series Jungle top/bottom, along with 10” and 12” FX stacks set up as hi hats!

[Josh Conover]

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24 inch: just two K Light rides. One of them just has the most beautiful hammer marks but the other sounds better... 🤔 Not sure what to do about that, lol. Still waiting to find a good deal on an A series medium ride to add to the 24” collection.



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23 inch: A series Sweet ride, K Custom Special Dry, K Sweet. The 23” A series Sweet ride is my “go to” right-side crash when I’m playing the 24” K Light.



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22 inch: K Light, K Dark Medium, *(K Custom Special Dry crash)*, K Light EFX, and K Pre-aged Dry Light ride. This might be my favorite size of cymbal. Most of these 22’s excel as a crash or a ride and fall right in to that sweet spot. The K Dark Medium is the best overall ride sound though. I can’t recommend it enough if you’re looking for that perfect versatile ride sound with a nice defined bell and articulate stick sound. The K Light EFX is one of my all time favorite cymbals made possible by the dudes over at Bakersfield modded cymbals.



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21 inch: K Custom Organic, K Sweet, A Sweet.


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20 inch: 🤔 I don’t own a single 20” ride... 20” and smaller are just crashes unless... ⬇️⬇️⬇️



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18 inch: I have two of the ReMix series Breakbeat rides. These cymbals are great for smaller, un-mic’d gigs, but also excel in the studio if you’re looking to recreate that synthetic, almost Casio keyboard sound. I love this cymbal and it later turned into the A series Breakbeat and is currently still sold as the A series Uptown ride.

[Drumming-4-Life]

Nice pics Josh - you have quite a selection of cymbals there. Almost none of them are like my cymbals. If we merged our collections, it would be a choir of voices HAHA.

[Josh Conover]

Nice pics Josh - you have quite a selection of cymbals there. Almost none of them are like my cymbals. If we merged our collections, it would be a choir of voices HAHA.

True! You're bright and clean where I'm dark and dirty!

[RushDrums24]

True! You're bright and clean where I'm dark and dirty!

By that standard, you'd add my collection and get another angle completely! Loads of 18" ride cymbals (They may not be fashionable but I love em), and teeny tiny 12/13" hi hats

[Josh Conover]

By that standard, you'd add my collection and get another angle completely! Loads of 18" ride cymbals (They may not be fashionable but I love em), and teeny tiny 12/13" hi hats

When I was playing with this hip hop crew about ten years ago, my setup was 12" ReMix hats, 14" ReMix crash, 14" Trashformer, and an 18" Breakbeat ride. I loved that little rig and it sounded great!