Brass snare drums

[bstocky]

I read a lot of positive reviews of the Ahead snares and was excited to see them in my local store. I played the 13" and the 14". They both suck. My Yamaha brass snares blow them away. I have the 7x14" and 6x13" Nouveau snares and they're way better than anything on your original list.
If you really want a Black Beauty type snare then just save your money and buy the real thing. Even a regular Supra is a nice metal snare.

[MRhet]

I read a lot of positive reviews of the Ahead snares and was excited to see them in my local store. I played the 13" and the 14". They both suck. My Yamaha brass snares blow them away. I have the 7x14" and 6x13" Nouveau snares and they're way better than anything on your original list.
If you really want a Black Beauty type snare then just save your money and buy the real thing. Even a regular Supra is a nice metal snare.

I bought a BB a little over a year ago and it's been everything I thought it would be.

[deseipel]

not to toot my own horn, but check out what I did with an Acro shell from ebay for $30. Then I bought most of the tube lugs, hoops from drummaker.com. Hot-rod-acrolite

[DSOP]

Acros are not brass... Nice snares though.

I know, they're aluminum, but they sound amazing. I would say that brass is the third best sounding snare material, behind bronze and aluminum.

[bstocky]

Copper is nice too. My Yamaha Roy Haynes copper is by far the best metal snare I've ever played.

[YamahaPlayer]

Nice job Deseipel!

I gotta throw it out for the Copper too, super awesome sounds.

[DSOP]

I forgot about copper. They really do sound nice! And I don't mean to say that brass doesn't sound great either. I have a chromed brass Ludwig that I absolutely love, but my hammered bronze has something special going on.

[bstocky]

The hammered bronze Ludwigs are very nice. My Roy Haynes copper is also hammered. It's an excellent drum.

[circh bustom]

My wife, awesome woman that she is,just bought me a 6.5x14 Black Beauty as a gift. It is thick sounding. I thought it would be louder, but its projection is clean even 15ft away unmiked. So far I have it tuned a tad higher than a "Bonham" type tuning. Its a little more than the snares you listed, but worth the extra $$$. i also have a 5.5x14 Mapex Black Panther brass. One of the older ones with die-cast hoops. That was really inexpensive and is fantastic. Now that i have the BB i tune the Mapex a bit higher than normal for more of a funk sound and Im lovin it.
I love the brass snares because there is so much going on in the actual sound of the shell. Very complex and rich, and with the two I have, they can handle whatever you throw at them.

[YamahaPlayer]

That lady is a keeper!!