Wood or Metal Snare drum?

[aaronperry10]

I'm having a problem, i can't decide if i want to buy a Wood snare or a metal shell.......I have a metal snare and it has a great sound (except for the resonance.) I've heard that its really bad to have a wood snare cause the shell's crack under pressure easily. Can ANYONE help me out with some advice.

[We_Love_Lime]

I'm having a problem, i can't decide if i want to buy a Wood snare or a metal shell.......I have a metal snare and it has a great sound (except for the resonance.) I've heard that its really bad to have a wood snare cause the shell's crack under pressure easily. Can ANYONE help me out with some advice.

Hmm..

Well...

What kind of sound are you looking out of your snare?

And since when does wood crack under pressure easily?

[milkmit]

I have a birch, and if I had to buy a new one today I'd definitely got for a metal....probably brass.

[White Riot!]

Wood shells do not crack easily.........you'd need to abuse them for that

[aaronperry10]

Ive just heard that they crack easily. Im looking for a DEEP DEEP sound but with a really high snap like a piccolo snare.........i heard that Slipknot Pearl snare drum was good but i don't think i want something that is of like TOO deep, that thing was a baheemoth

[mamcdonald]

DEEP DEEP sound with a really high snap? That's like...impossible.

[Double Bass Jim]

14x8" steel snare tuned up nice and high.

[DuckinFutch8]

14x8" steel snare tuned up nice and high.

oh baby!

My firend's snare is like that... I love it...

[White Riot!]

black chromed of course ;)

[aaronperry10]

I'll check 'em out at the shop in columbus ohio......columbus percussion does specialty so i might be able to get something cheap from there

[ofDooM]

i like the sound of a brass snare. theyre expensive compared to the steel though, and they damage easier. i wonder what a gold snare sounds like...

[aaronperry10]

i like the sound of a brass snare. theyre expensive compared to the steel though, and they damage easier. i wonder what a gold snare sounds like...

My school has a nice snare, its really deep and the head is SOO tight......i want that snare but good luck getting the band teacher to sell me that......my buddy Eric has a standard ludwig student concert snare that sounds really good around the set

[Tyler3295]

metal

[Chris]

Ive just heard that they crack easily. Im looking for a DEEP DEEP sound but with a really high snap like a piccolo snare.........i heard that Slipknot Pearl snare drum was good but i don't think i want something that is of like TOO deep, that thing was a baheemoth

Try to find a 13x6.5 or 13.7 steel snare, and tune it high.

[maniac0796]

For a rough idea of sounds, even if you ain't gonna buy Tama, go to your shop, and look for a Tama snare concept leaflet. That'll tell you what noises different sizes and materials will make. Then go and try some out.

For a dark sound with a tight crack, you'd want something like a hand hammered copper one, or a bell brass one. Bear in mind, bell brass is bloody expensive.
A wood one would give the low sound, but a metal one would give the snap. Thats how i see it, but i'm probably wrong.
Like chris said, get a small diameter one, but get quite a deep one.

[Tyler3295]

i have a Pearl steel snare 13x6.5 and i love it

[pitchfork]

Wood shell's crack under pressure? The head would rip before you could crack a shell.
And yeah 14x6.5 brass, steel or maple, maybe even birch.