percusski wrote:
Well, played a fair bit on them today and was really enjoying it which is a good sign, I tightened up the felts a bit on the top cymbal which helped the afore mentioned need for more foot pressure. They are funky hats to be sure...going to try them on Weds with the tuned-up Lite kit playing jazz.
I have a 22 Byzance Jazz thin ride that is pretty nice, amazingly they seem to have doubled in price in 18 months or so...unbelievable!
The extra dry crashes do seem really nice, I could imagine picking up an 18 or 20 crash, somewhere between a crash and a china I think.
Glad to hear the hats are shaping up!
My impression of the Extra Dry crashes, particularly the very thin ones, is that they are more like splashes in the sense that they are stoppable with a stick rather than requiring a hand-grab, but less abrupt in general decay than a splash.
A dry set of hats will want rides that are also fairly dry, and I'm not sure, at least for my purposes, that birch and dry cymbals are a great marriage. Realizing when I say that, my knowledge is not deep, so to be more specific, my experience with S-Classix was that they worked better with washier cymbals, whereas maple Designers require cymbals that are more percussive lest the drums and the cymbals overwhelm each other.
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