Everything Zildjian

[RushDrums24]

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!

Yeah I'm not doing anything like that gig wise! But just have an unorthodox cymbal taste. Currently this is my selection of Zildjian rides (so excluding my old Sabian 22" Paragon and a 70's 18" Zyn)

18" 70's A Ping
18" 70's (outline logo) A Medium
18" 70's Constantinople (Brilliant)
18" K Custom Session
19" A Armand 'Beautiful Baby'

I've used selections from that lot on everything from jazz trio shows up to playing hard rock, and they all sound great. I don't get what I want in terms of sound and response from 20" rides seemingly, every 20" i've ever owned i've sold. The 18's have something special about them that I just can't place, the balance just seems to be perfect.

[Josh Conover]

I don't get what I want in terms of sound and response from 20" rides seemingly, every 20" i've ever owned i've sold. The 18's have something special about them that I just can't place, the balance just seems to be perfect.

Same! I've never owned or played a 20" ride cymbal that did something for me or made me feel a certain way. But there's something about 22" rides that just really works for me. My K Dark is such a crazy example of an all purpose, great sounding ride that just feels great under the stick. But if I want something with a little more dirt, the K Custom Dry crash is where it's at! And then my K Light with the EFX holes is the best crash ever!

[2 basses4life]

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.

really? i thought that was standard practice ..
as for the stamping believe it or not, when they first introduced the z series , they were in the 80's and these were the first "computer stamped " cymbals (pretty sure the old i phone just upgraded from had more power ) in the literature of the time , there were 3 styles of stampinga series of circles(medium) a series of stars (lighter) and hexagon stampings (heavy) usually , at least when i got my first ones , the star patterns were the lighter top hats and thehexs were normally the bottoms ,, i assume the circles were more for crashes and rides and such ..but my ole' stand byes were stars on top and hex's on the bottom ,
TODAY if i want a new set of dyno beats , they only sell the bottom s .literally if you want a fresh pair, they have to purchased individually and they only do hex's also , sadly they ARE lighter .. that was confirmed by the zildjian rep at that meet and great we did back in 16 .

[musiqman]

So I have this 80’s official Zildjian jacket. The relief logo was abit bland against the black background (or foreground if you will) so I had this idea to fill it out woth gold paint.

A buddy of my does shoe customization and wanted to take this challenge. It was a hard one but I love the result!

[musiqman]

🙌🏾

[Josh Conover]

Finally picked up a 24" medium ride (for just under $250) and they were basically giving these S Family Trash Crashes away ($89 for the 20") so I got one of those as well.

[Drumming-4-Life]

Finally picked up a 24" medium ride (for just under $250) and they were basically giving these S Family Trash Crashes away ($89 for the 20") so I got one of those as well.

Who is "they"?

[musiqman]

Yes. Who is they indeed

[Josh Conover]

Who is "they"?

Yes. Who is they indeed

247drums.com

I got it through their Reverb store.

[Thrush]

So I have this 80’s official Zildjian jacket. The relief logo was abit bland against the black background (or foreground if you will) so I had this idea to fill it out woth gold paint.

A buddy of my does shoe customization and wanted to take this challenge. It was a hard one but I love the result!

That's a really cool jacket, and the outcome is also really nice

[Josh Conover]

I just picked up an 18" Crash of Doom for $175 from a pawn shop. It's such a rare cymbal, I pulled the trigger immediately!

...I don't even play crashes under 20", lol.

[NO DRUMS]

I guess it a closet ornament

[musiqman]

That was my favorite of them with the 22. I didn’t care fir the 20.

Now you should get the 24 and 16 (DC only) too.

[Josh Conover]

That was my favorite of them with the 22. I didn’t care fir the 20. Now you should get the 24 and 16 (DC only) too.

I almost pulled the trigger on a 24" that was on Reverb... I should have.

[Josh Conover]

New 15" Rib Hat from the Concept Shop.

Paired it with a K Custom Special Dry bottom.