Favorite Versatile Small Cymbal Setups?

[Dillasdonuts]

Do you have a favorite versatile setup that would consist of hi-hats, ride, and crash?

The ride or crash could also be a crash-ride.

How have you mixed and matched your cymbals?

 

[Rick]

Currently, my "small, versatile" setup would be as follows:

15" A Avedis hats - Those can cover anything.

19" Istanbul Mehmet Jazz w/ 2 rivets - Beautiful crash that gets out of the way and makes a great LSR if I need to cover jazz.

21" Zildjian K Custom Special Dry w/ rivets - This is my do-it-all ride, and it does everything really well!

 

[bobsyouruncle]

If there's ever a peculiar thing to buy, it's an 18 inch ride cymbal. To bring one cymbal and hats to the gig usually it's a 19 or 20 for me, and even then I think the ride quality is more important than the crash

 

[Rick]

If there's ever a peculiar thing to buy, it's an 18 inch ride cymbal. To bring one cymbal and hats to the gig usually it's a 19 or 20 for me, and even then I think the ride quality is more important than the crash

If I could only bring hats and one cymbal, I'd bring those 15" A Avedis hats and the 19" Istanbul Mehmet Sultan Jazz w/ 2 rivets. That cymbal has a beautiful crash and is a very good ride as well.

 

[Skins_in_the_game]

If I could only bring hats and one cymbal, I'd bring those 15" A Avedis hats and the 19" Istanbul Mehmet Sultan Jazz w/ 2 rivets. That cymbal has a beautiful crash and is a very good ride as well.

I also got a istanbul mehmet Sultan jazz ride which I added one agop brass rivet. It is as you say, a good light jazz ride. Practically stole it ($175) here on this forum from someone who was selling a shops worth of stuff that was new.

 

[Rick]

I also got an istanbul mehmet Sultan jazz ride which I added one agop brass rivet. It is as you say, a good light jazz ride. Practically stole it ($175) here on this forum from someone who was selling a shops worth of stuff that was new.

I paid a LITTLE more than that for mine. lol Mine has two factory installed brass rivets that are spaced about 5 inches apart. I got it from Hazelshould.

 

[cdwillis]

It's far from exotic, but I have to limit it to just three pieces in my collection with versatility in mind if would probably be this:

14" New Beat hats
18" Zildjian A medium thin crash
20" Zildjian A Crash Ride

Maybe swap the crash ride out for my 21" A sweet ride. The sweet ride isn't as pingy, more washy, and it's a little harder to crash on. I usually use a 7a stick, sometimes a 5a which is probably part of it.

 

[scheme]

The Giant Beat Multis do the Crash-Ride thing incredibly well.

 

[LudwigGuy]

Do you have a favorite versatile setup that would consist of hi-hats, ride, and crash?

The ride or crash could also be a crash-ride.

Yup!
All Heartbeat cymbals.
15" Studio hats
20" thin Studio Crash
22" thin Custom Dry Ride that is an amazing crash as well

I've played these with a string quartet at a wedding reception, and I've also played these in front of a couple of thousand people.

How have you mixed and matched your cymbals?

I don't mix brands anymore.

 

[Seb77]

Do you have a favorite versatile setup that would consist of hi-hats, ride, and crash?

The ride or crash could also be a crash-ride.

How have you mixed and matched your cymbals?

Answer would be not too different from the one in this thread:

Name your one and only cymbal setup

Here is the catch: You are asked to choose only one cymbal setup to play for the rest of your life in any situation (small indoor gig, outdoor, studio, etc.) for any type of song. The cymbal setup can have the pieces below in your desired sizes and weight. -1 pair of hats -2 rides -2 crashes...

www.drumforum.org

I like a 20" crash ride as main ride as it doubles as crash. We'll talk again when I play in a band where these are too quiet or washy, unlikely with the gigs I have. Second cymbal should also work as a ride, 14" hats, like the ride, should work for quiet and medium-loud gigs. Various cymbals I have would work.

I think I have no problem mixing brands, but the sounds should somehow fit together sonically, Turkish and USA B20 styles seem to mix well. I have a 20" Paiste Giant Beat that is similar to some other crash rides I have, but I'm hesitant to use it because it seems to have a certain B8 quality that tends to stick out among B20 sounds.

 

[Rick]

Answer would be not too different from the one in this thread:

Name your one and only cymbal setup

Here is the catch: You are asked to choose only one cymbal setup to play for the rest of your life in any situation (small indoor gig, outdoor, studio, etc.) for any type of song. The cymbal setup can have the pieces below in your desired sizes and weight. -1 pair of hats -2 rides -2 crashes...

www.drumforum.org

I like a 20" crash ride as main ride as it doubles as crash. We'll talk again when I play in a band where these are too quiet or washy, unlikely with the gigs I have. Second cymbal should also work as a ride, 14" hats, like the ride, should work for quiet and medium-loud gigs. Various cymbals I have would work.

I think I have no problem mixing brands, but the sounds should somehow fit together sonically, Turkish and USA B20 styles seem to mix well. I have a 20" Paiste Giant Beat that is similar to some other crash rides I have, but I'm hesitant to use it because it seems to have a certain B8 quality that tends to stick out among B20 sounds.

In my early days of drumming, I used a 22" Paiste 2002 as my main ride with all the rest of the cymbals being Zildjians from the late 1970's. It was a decent ride cymbal and I just didn't really pay much attention to cymbals at the time. I figured a cymbal was pretty much a cymbal and didn't know anything about the B20 versus B8. But looking back, that Paiste did sound a lot different from the Zildjians and didn't really fit in. I can easily see that now. Fortunately, I've learned a lot more about cymbals since then... although I'm certainly still learning!

 

[felis]

Small?

12" New Beats
and
18" A or K crash/ride