Gibraltar Snare Drum Wire 14 Inch/42 Strand, Percussion Drum Accesories, Snare Drum Wire for Drummers, SC-4471

Very nice wires! If you are wondering how you'd like a set of 42 strand wires, these are nice quality. The cost is reasonable, so you aren't out much if the sound isn't for you, but if it IS, then you have a really nice sounding set of wires that aren't flimsy, with good end tabs, and aren't going to get out of shape with reasonable care. If you aren't recording, or do regular studio work, you don't need anything more high dollar than these wires.

Quality construction. Fits great. Sounds amazing again!

These snare wires sound awesome. Made a cheap drum sound like a more expensive item (along with a quality snare-side head replacement part). Will be purchasing more of these in the future for great sounding snares.

Sounds good

I've put these snare wires on 3 different snares and got excellent results. You can get a very fat, wet sound or a decisive "CRACK"! depending on how you tune your heads and simply loosening or tightening the snare wires. I was really surprised at the increase in sensitivity at low levels, too. I always recommend using your favorite high quality drum heads, but if you feel like you're missing that "extra something", try these before spending a lot of $$$ on different heads or giving up on the drum. I have and old Pearl Export ELX 14x5 wood snare(included with the drumset) that I'd tried different combinations of heads on and couldn't quite get the sound I wanted. I put these wires on, and it was just what I needed to make the sound very good to great! Now I get a great sound whether I use standard or 'controlled-sound' type heads. Currently it has an Aquarian HE on top & Evans Hazy 300 on bottom. At ~ $20.00, you can't go wrong!

I purchased these to replace a damaged set of snares on a drum I was selling. I normally use PureSound Custom Series Snare Wire, 16 Strand, 14 Inch , but these were the less expensive of the two and for my purposes they were deemed good enough. I'll directly compare them to the PureSound model above. These are a little brighter sounding than the PureSound. They were also a little 'wetter' sounding at the same tension, so if you are looking for a snare set for those characteristics, this set is a bargain. They come with two nylon straps that are 5/8" wide. I prefer to use grosgrain ribbons because those allow the snares to seat closer to the head, and to resonate better. I usually purchase that stuff in bulk ( Grosgrain Ribbon 5/8 Inch 30 Yards White ), so had plenty on hand to not have to use the included nylon straps. I strongly recommend that you consider the same. Overall, these are better than I expected from relatively generic snares. To be honest, if I were keeping the snare drum on which I installed these I would have gone with PureSound, but that is only because that brand has a darker sound that I prefer. You cannot go wrong with these if you are okay with a brighter, wetter sounding snare drum.

Choose this one to put it on a 14 x 8 Mapex snare. My intention was to use it as a fat snare, but it will need more stuff (dampening and tuning) to get what I intended. Still don't know if I like or hate to quantity of buzzing that this makes. what I really thing is that maybe is not the number 1 wires you put on your main snare.

Great value.

The item reached me ahead of stipulated time, the material are top notch, the packaging was good.

I have an expensive snare and it's sounded terrible, been struggling to get it sounding better. Never thought the wire could make such a difference. It sounds amazing now, night and day. Will use these from now on.

Maravilla. Más volumen y sensibilidad. Llegó bien protegido.

Very happy with the product

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