did you hear the one about the drummer on xmass.....?

[Taronja]

i know what you thought

AND!

NO! this is not a thread dedicated to bag on drummers and sharing your lame drummer jokes




anyway, i bought myself these bad boys yesterday. 18, 20 inch. and im returning the little cute one, its was part of the pack and in order to get the online deal (in store) i had to buy all three, but after looking at my sales slip i noticed that they sold me them individually but adjusted the price as to match the online deal, so it looks like i can just go back with the splash and return it

for those of you that dont know, these cymbals are awesome
they are made from B20 bronze and can take a beating from really hard hitting drummers like myself, these things weren't cheap, but i needed em, the last AAX crash cymbals by Sabian i had finally cracked, i bought them when i was 18, im 36 now, so YEAH, i got my moneys worth and had to go for them again. im still using the old ride cymbal. these really sound fantastic. full bodied and round. even the center bell on both sound great and thats a major plus.

cymbals are one of those things you should not buy online, its much better to hear them and pick out some that are in tune with one another.

[Drdos]

I think Sabian make some of the best sounding cymbals on the market.. Zillgian cymbals are very dark sounding to me. The AAX series cymbals are really nice. Congrats

[Taronja]

I think Sabian make some of the best sounding cymbals on the market.. Zillgian cymbals are very dark sounding to me. The AAX series cymbals are really nice. Congrats

yeah, AAX series are really something. the higher end Zillgian's like the A customs are nice, but every one i get i seem to crack. i play real hard, so i need durable cymbals. the AAX series has done me well, having had some that lasted me about 18 years of serious abuse, but we will see how they are made these days.

Jon

[Drdos]

I think Sabian make some of the best sounding cymbals on the market.. Zillgian cymbals are very dark sounding to me. The AAX series cymbals are really nice. Congrats

yeah, AAX series are really something. the higher end Zillgian's like the A customs are nice, but every one i get i seem to crack. i play real hard, so i need durable cymbals. the AAX series has done me well, having had some that lasted me about 18 years of serious abuse, but we will see how they are made these days.

Jon

Once played with a drummer who took full swings at his cymbals... I swear I lost hearing in my left ear because of his Crash.. He played Zillgians and would always crack them(Along with many broken sets of sticks), but always swore by them... I'm not a drummer but I have to say I really prefer the sound of higher end sabians to other brand cymbals.. Another drummer I played with used the AAX series and really liked the sound of them, but he also used an Ayote custom drum set that I really liked as well...

[blackcloud45]

You know why breaks are only 15 minutes?

So you don't have to retrain the drummer.



How many guitarists does it take to play a solo?

1 to play it and 100 to speculate on how they could have done it better.



What do Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, and in-tune bassists have in common?

They are all fictional.



How many singers does it take to change a light bulb?

1, he just stands still while the rest of the world revolves around him.

[Drdos]

You know why breaks are only 15 minutes?

So you don't have to retrain the drummer.



How many guitarists does it take to play a solo?

1 to play it and 100 to speculate on how they could have done it better.



What do Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, and in-tune bassists have in common?

They are all fictional.



How many singers does it take to change a light bulb?

1, he just stands still while the rest of the world revolves around him.

hehehe Needed that.... Do you know how to get a drummer to slow down???? Tell him to take the Domino's Delivery sign off the hood of his car....

[blacklight_uk]

Man those are sweet cymbals. Best I've recorded so far though was a set of Meinl Byzance's...oh man...talk about gooey!

[Borderline Productions]

Nice set!

It is interesting that when a drum set is for sale on e-bay or Craigslist, it hardly ever includes the cymbals. That's because the cymbals are usually worth more than the rest of the drum set.

The set in my basement (belonging to my son) is a mix: Zildjian hihat, two Zildjian crashes, Sabian ride, Sabian rocktagon (nothing says 80s hairband like a rocktagon), and some Splashes from a brand I am blanking on. The cymbals are worth way more the the Pearl set they surround.

[stevo2112]

what's zillgian?

[Randy Bass]

Even the low-end Sabians are pretty good. I have XS20 (cast) cymbals all the way around and they compare favorably to my drummer's Zildjian A Customs. I was looking at low-end Zildjians (ZBT or ZXT) when I bought my set and the ride cymbals were absolute garbage compared to the XS20.

[Y0UNGBL00D]

Our Guy cracked (badly) BOTH his paiste sig crashes last rehearsal. Even I almost cried. He's a GC manager so I guess he'll be OK.

[Taronja]

Nice set!

It is interesting that when a drum set is for sale on e-bay or Craigslist, it hardly ever includes the cymbals. That's because the cymbals are usually worth more than the rest of the drum set.

yeah, good point. i could have bought a Tiny Terror with the cost of just these three cymbals, but i needed them and had to take the responsible route on this one.

what's zillgian?

aside from it being misspelled

The Avedis Zildjian Company is a cymbal manufacturer founded in Istanbul, Turkey by an Armenian named Avedis Zildjian during the Ottoman Empire. Currently located in the United States, it is the world's largest manufacturer of cymbals.[1] At nearly 400 years old, Zildjian is the oldest family-run business in America[2] and one of the 320 oldest companies in the world.

Jon

[Le Chat Noir]

Our Guy cracked (badly) BOTH his paiste sig crashes last rehearsal. Even I almost cried. He's a GC manager so I guess he'll be OK.

How long has he had them? Paiste have a 1 year warranty for breakages - I know this because a friend of mine in a band locally is a very hard hitter, uses the Rudes and breaks them constantly, but always gets free replacements!

[Taronja]

Our Guy cracked (badly) BOTH his paiste sig crashes last rehearsal. Even I almost cried. He's a GC manager so I guess he'll be OK.

How long has he had them? Paiste have a 1 year warranty for breakages - I know this because a friend of mine in a band locally is a very hard hitter, uses the Rudes and breaks them constantly, but always gets free replacements!

Rudes are supossed to be really great from what i read about them. many cymbal companies offer the one year thing. im sure if he's a GC manager he knows what the deal is thou.

Jon