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benjisonfire
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  10:19:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
with a heavy batter head and o ring, get tuned low enough and have enough beef to sound like a 'real' snare thats just really dry? for rehearsals it would be great If I could fit a snare in my cymbal case

anyone got any soundfiles of picolos working as a main snare?
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Captain Bubble
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  10:22:18  Show Profile  Visit Captain Bubble's Homepage  Reply with Quote
No need to buy a heavy batter head if you don't already have one, just get an old head and place it upside down on the batter, or cut a 14" disc from a bigger head. BluTack to hold it in place if necessary.
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Unkle Kev
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  10:27:55  Show Profile  Visit Unkle Kev's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Piccolo snares can sound very fat. I used to have a brass Free Floater piccolo that was really beefy. Shell material makes much more difference with a piccolo. My steel FFS was really dry and crisp, and the birch was all crack.
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benjisonfire
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  10:41:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
any recordings?
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Unkle Kev
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  10:53:06  Show Profile  Visit Unkle Kev's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Nope, sorry.
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logic_user99
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  12:14:56  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I used a 13x3 on Friday night and it sounded fatty-fatty-fat-fat. Medium tension batter, with slightly lower-tuned resonant. One patch of MoonGel on the top. Remo Coated Ambassador on the batter and a Hazy something on the bottom.

The ghost notes had a nice low pitch but it still had a nice crack on the rim shots.
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Glide
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I use a 4" version of one of Mr Noonan's 2 piece spun brass jobbies.
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ozz
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  18:41:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuqQ7z6e94&feature=youtube_gdat

(Skip to about 3 mins in)

No doubt stupidly expensive but demonstrates a nice fat sound from a shallow drum.
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Dan Bear Taylor
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  19:20:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
In 1989 everybody used a piccolo as a main snare and they sounded great!
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Mcmaul
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Posted - 09/07/2012 :  19:24:31  Show Profile  Visit Mcmaul's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Wot E said!!^^^^
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