The perfect Allround Recording Snare

[Woodboy]

Hi I am new to this forum.
Good to be here....!
I just bought a new snare and wanted to share my experience.
The snare is a Yamaha Absolute Maple 6 x 14 snare.
After trying a lot of snares throughout my drumming years I found this perfect Allround Recording Snare.
It is the size of 6" depth that makes this snare so versatile. The tuning range just stunned me in the store
And under a microphone it is even better.
Love my Green Ghost...

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Looks great. Can we hear some of the recordings?

[Eric]

Nice !!!

[trickg]

I'm not surprised that it would be a versatile snare drum. Currently, my go-to snare is almost always my 6x14 DIY Keller snare I made about 10 years ago. It has a nice combination of warmth, crack and body. Tuned up it's nice and crackly, tuned down, it's pretty fat. I tend to keep mine tuned in the upper mid range because the one thing about mine is that if it's tuned too high, it tends to choke a little.

[thismercifulfate]

Those are very nice drums and I've recorded several of them, but in my experience they don't favor low tunings, even the deeper sized ones. Then again, very few modern drums with their ultra-sharp bearing edges do. That's why serious session drummers usually have a decent arsenal of vintage snare drums.

[Woodboy]

Thanx everybody for your input. Really interesting to hear various opinions.
Since I downsized my setup to the most necessary essentials , I was just looking for the one snare drum that could do it all!,
Here is my take.Since I didn't want to start a new sd collection nor haul various snares in studios
I have found this Absolute Custom Maple snare.
One of the real innovations about this snare are the HookLugs.
Here we go... Batter change in 2 minutes .I take various batterheads and dampening a in the studio and the 14 x 6 maple shell can give the producer every sound he needs.
Highly recommend this approach !

[dubsnack]

Those lugs are super cool

[Woodboy]

Yes you are right.
These Hook lugs are amazing.
Ok Pearl had the Super Gripper lugs but these are one step further.
For me one of the best new drumworld inventions including the Pearl free floaters
and rims.

[Woodboy]

One more thing what really ads to the architecture of the sound of this snare are
aluminum die cast hoops. There is something Magic with this combination of
Wood choice ..... Lug choice ..... And hoop choice what makes this snare sing in a variety of voices.

[daniboun]

Hi,

The system used in the Starphonic is better for me :
Those groove hoops are awesome

[Gilligan]

The snare that came with my MCA kit was a lemon, the kit was awesome but the snare was hard to tune and limited.

[Woodboy]

Hi,

The system used in the Starphonic is better for me :
Those groove hoops are awesome

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Hi daniboun
Great Looking snare you got there. The Starphonics are great snares ,specially the aluminum shells.
I tried the bubinga in a Store but it seemed a Little bit choked. Could have been the heavy Hardware or the
Shell Construction . For sure what i was looking for was versatile snare and for Wood , Maple Seems to be the
Allround Wood for Shells.
One More Thing i really Love about my Green ghost is the weight compared to other snares.
Must bei the aluminum hoops and the low Mass lugs.
Makes it Easy to bring to the Studio.
Cheers..

[dale w miller]

I personally go to my GMS Vintage 6.5x 14.

There's a reason though that the Black Beauty is talked about as the most recorded drum in history.

[Woodboy]

The snare that came with my MCA kit was a lemon, the kit was awesome but the snare was hard to tune and limited.

Hi gilligan
The MCA snares that were made in Japan are manufactured by sakae and 1 a quality. It. Could have been a dead Head You were dealing with . When i tune my snare through the Ranges i do it by ear without digi Tuner.

[Woodboy]

I personally go to my GMS Vintage 6.5x 14.

There's a reason though that the Black Beauty is talked about as the most recorded drum in history.

Hi Dale
The GMS vintages are breathing. I like their Low Mass lugs.
Black beauties are beautiful but sometimes hard to tame in the Studio.
Here i prefer a wood shell.