Surprisingly close in sound

First comment!

Beautiful sounding snare

Totally agreed! Love this! One challenge: Do this metal to wood or vice versa. 🤓 TY

I think this would've been even more interesting (more than it already is) had the heads been the identical.

A little Teen Spirit at the end, eh?👍

Would have been curious to see if a 6.5" Deep Acro would have gotten that touch more body that the Tama BB has. Overall, the Acro got close, but the body in its tone just isn't where the Tama's is. Is that body worth an extra $4-5k? I don't think so, but the Tama BB lovers out there will say it is.

Digital bath ❤

This was a great demonstration of how you can change the ratio of attack and body with a few small adjustments, bravo! I've got a video where I showed put 5 different snares against my Tama 50th. I also was able to get surprisingly close! I showed them both with and without processing. Processing made them even closer, even though the processing didnt change from one drum to the next.

For recording purposes two highly dissimilar drums can be tuned to sound pretty close to same, but the things the drummer feels and hears? Not as easy.

It’s the small differences the player notices that make people buy a $5k snare, or a custom shop Stratocaster. Recorded tone? Probably not even the player is gonna hear a significant difference vs a basic, good alternative tuned well.

These kinda comparos could be a series - ”How close can we get?” Cheers folks!

I had 2 Tama bell brass clones both made of Deluth shells. I didn’t think either snare was worth keeping around. Heavier shell doesn’t always mean better. I much prefer my black beauty and I’m not blowing out my back and knees hauling it around 😆

It sounds great. Similar to a Bell Brass? Absolutely not... But it sounds great.

Fantastic video, as usual. I'm curious though, Acrolite has become a generic term for so many different variations for the snare over the years. You used an 8 lug version but how old was it? Was it an early iteration with the chrome over cast brass rims? I'm only guessing but it sounded like it is a steel rim snare. If so, I wonder what you could have done with the brass rims? Also, can you explain what the paytreeon? I hear about it a lot.

Why does the kick sound different (fuller) when you play the Tama? Is it reflection off the snare mic? It happened every time you went from one snare to the other.

oh god that rim shot on the bell brass. 🤤

More proof I have 15 more snare drums than I need. :-).

Hmm. I think many understand that most any snare can be tuned to the same pitch as another. They do not sound the same to me, the acro is thinner and tinnier sounding, and owning an acro and Bell Brass myself, I can say they feel and project in a very different way.

I’ve noticed a pattern emerging in the videos of click bait and switch tactics that seem to rely heavily on the confirmation bias this channel has that everything is tuning. Just my take.

This is usually what I'm looking for and yeah, lower the snare head is what I did recently to make it nicer.

is there something acro can't do?

honestly I like acrolite better and I’d match the bell brass to it, not the other way around haha

Point taken … you don’t need a bell brass to get a close sound to the bell brass sound. But a bell brass is such a cool drum to own. 😊😊😊

I’m curious! I love the way drums are presented and played on this channel, is there anywhere I can go to hear some music that Cody and/or the bands that he has played with/written with as well?

hitting a snare is multiple stages of sound, the initial attack -> wires + short lived head sustain, and then the lingering shell. wires and short lived head sound can be brought close together, the activated shell sound however will always be individual to each drum. an acro sounds so much thinner and brighter compared to a bell bronze 3mm shell.

How can we share our own experiments with you guys?

Love the digital bath snippet. Abe Cunningham is the man.

Not even close sorry. There is a reason the tama gained its legendary status among some of the best drummers.

My favorite part of the comments is every bell brass apologist/fan boy losing their minds because they can’t stand the implication of a bell brass being replicated. Y’all insecure about spending so much on a piece of equipment that you have to reassure yourselves it’s worth it by poo pooing other people’s suggestions.

Regardless, THIS type of video should be essential viewing for drummers because it highlights how much of our opinions of sound and quality are based on perception and biases.

Instead of freaking out that someone is attacking the “legendary and valuable” bell brass maybe think of how cool it is that this channel lowers the barriers to entry for all drummers by highlighting that you don’t need a specific instrument to get a really great sound.

80-90% of people wouldn’t even be able to pick a bell brass out of a three drum line up in a blind test. Plus the majority of what most people associate as “the bell brass sound” is incredibly talented engineering and mixing.

Recorded sound vs. hearing and feeling the snare sound while playing - these are completely two different worlds.