On drums...

Just interested to know how you guys like your snare wires set up, the extra long wires on Lite 547x and the like are such a great design, they need hardly any tension to provide snap without choking the drum but also without too much 'after-rattle'
Using regular length snare wires, I always find it's a job getting the tension just right so it's tight enough without choking yet without the afore mention annoying 'after-rattle'

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How we like them set up as to tension, or some other factor? Tension-wise, it's always a trade-off between tone and crispness. I grab the tensioner when I don't like what I'm hearing, and turn in the opposite direction.

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Gregory

I tighten the strainer slightly above the after rattle.

Same Greg. I'm probably right on that "almost rattle" line. I don't like the wires choking the head.

I can relate better to this question, now that I've been playing the 547x. The only tension issue for that snare is how crisp the intended sound. Choking is not a problem, as it is on all the modern (Sonor, at any rate) snare designs.

The new snares are frustrating, because there is no point at which I am really satisfied. There's always some rattle left just when the lower head begins to choke. I believe that is the reason Sonor offers the "split" wires, which are just standard wires with the middle four missing. I am able to get a fatter drum sound with crisper snares with that arrangement. The snare wires avoid the center of the snare head, where most of the damping seems to occur.

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Gregory

Still greatful you turned me onto that Greg. Night and day difference. Greatest snare drum revelation in years for me.

Gratitude here, too. I got it from Tony (cymbalsonly tony) and not sure where he got it. But it made an enormous difference in satisfaction with the newer snares. Haven't been tempted to try it on the Lite... now that I think about it, part of that is because the Lite came missing five wires on one side, so no way four more are coming out of the middle. But even with that eccentric wire set up, there is no reason to change.

I ordered two new wire sets for the Lite, so the disadvantaged set is not my fallback.

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Gregory