Yup Zildjian are bringing back the Z Customs! They are a totally different disk, built upon the lessons learned of the original Z's. They are lathed and thinner to boot, they really dialled them in and are a classic 2000's sound. Nice to see them back! The original Z's on the other hand...
I swear to God, this exact cymbal is my first cymbal! It used to have some tape that was impossible to remove, so before I sold it, I had to scratch it hard! That's why there is a big clear spot near the Z ! i sold it in France in 2020 it's so random i don't have the photos i used to sell it but i still have som random picture on which you can see it !
That Z has what we inside Zildjian called “cancer”, basically some contamination & porosity from a bad melt process. Even at the perfect thickness, those inclusions that break up the pure B20 cut the sustain down a comical amount. For lathed cymbals, once you start cutting, it’s easy to visually sort out, but without lathing you can often only hear it. And I’m betting for this series, it was anything-goes on what the cymbal “should” sound like, given the target market.
So has it been a recurring problem with Zildjian? Because when I was in band from 82-86, I used Zildjian cymbals for marching band and even with softer crashes? I cracked 2 pairs during 83-84 alone. Now they did sound bright and the sound more natural during crashes, but they just cracked and fell apart. We ended up getting Sabians, not as good sounding, but heavier and more durable.
Every original Z crash I ever tried sounded like that. I always put it down to them being way too thick for what they were supposed to do - there was so much bronze there they couldn't vibrate properly.
A cymbal that might take it to the Z is the Peace 12" Disc of Hate that you found at cashie's. I actually think the disc of hate has a use as a very niche effect cymbal though so i think i'd rather have that than the Z
Zildjian had just discontinued the original Z line when I started playing but I found a used one at a Guitar Center and even my young, broke-ass self in desperate need of crash cymbals didn't want anything to do with it once I heard it.
While it is quite horrible, i think it would be perfect for some funeral doom sort of metal project, i have heard some bands wich have this style of cymbal and it fits perfectly with the music.
Yeah, the only use I can think of is in like a big prog kit where you want a ton of different cymbals to add variety. It could be used every once in a while, but certainly not as the main crash cymbal
You know what's sad? I kinda like all of them and can hear uses for each one. Even the dinky steel one, just pair it up with some trem picking and kvlt vocals and record it all in a garage in Scandinavia.
I have 2 of those cymbals. Got them both free back in 2005. One sounds just like your one and the other sounds 10x worse. They sound kinda cool on super dry recordings.
The original Z 12" splash was pretty good. I have two of those and a 1st Gen 12" Z Custom splash. All are quite nice. Had an 18" original Z Power Smash. It was like a really heavy Pang. Not so great. I have an original 20" Z Light Power Ride with no logos. It's pretty nice, better with a couple of strips of painter's tape on the bottom. I wouldn't turn down a set of the new Z Customs they just released this week.
Not using any kind of cymbal sleeve on your cymbal stand? That's metal to metal contact, which is likely to make the cymbal sound harsh and wear it out more quickly. I wonder what the reasoning is behind setting things up this way?
what really makes it so terrible is it... starts out making SOME kind of useful sound, and then just falls on its face. Like someone who kinda has a good voice but no confidence so they just make squeaking noises, which is like, somehow worse than your tone-deaf friend belting it at karaoke, because it's just so damned /awkward/
I would drill holes in the Z and put 8 rivets in it...I would use it as a jazz ride.I have a 13'' Z on the bottom hi-hat..The top is a brilliant K...beautiful hats.ALL my cymbals are K brilliant finish.15'' dark crash and a 17'' dark crash.................Ralph Onofrio.....USA
I've never heard that bad Zildjian cymbal in my whole life. In fact Zildjian cymbals are probably the best ones out there. Heh, not even the cheapest Zultan or Meinl cymbals are that bad!
i love the fact that, even though it’s not a good sound, it’s literally exactly what someone is looking for. someone out there has been searching for that exact sound. that’s what i love most about music and instruments, even if it’s not what you want, it’s someone else’s dream
@@bubbillusionexactly. This guy and everybody commenting is just saying that it's automatically bad because it doesn't work for the context he's using it with. If you aren't the target audience then of course you won't make it sound good. Just look at china cymbals. They sound absolutely ugly on their own but with the right player and in the right context, they can sound absolutely amazing.
Hate to say it but some cymbals are objectively terrible, this is definitely one of them. It may be someone's favorite sound if their goal is to repel entire audiences
"We've used computer assisted hammering and all of our metallurgic knowledge to make this B20 cymbal sound like you closed the lid on a trash can too hard..."
Seeing all the "computer generated" marketing in that magazine ad at 0:32 I am convinced Zildjian would be marketing this as "ooooh AI designed" if these cymbals released today
I like the Paiste rudes tbh. Especially the sound edge hihats… super crisp sound! Best hihat I have owned. Looking forward to buy a new pair when they are back in stock!
It honestly made me laugh. After he said he hated the rude at the beginning I didn’t think it sounded too bad, so I expected the Z to not be too terrible. Boy was I wrong.
The Zildjian version of the RUDE was the Impulse line before they did the Z line. Tim Alexander (Primus) still plays one. I love that the right drummer can make any gear sound good.
They reissued the Z Customs NOT the originals. Those are VERY different cymbals. 🤷 Z Customs kick ass! As a metal drummer first & foremost, I've used a Z Custom as my "main squeeze" crash (the 16" "Z Custom Rock Crash" to be specific) for like a decade now! 🌝 With me only being in the market for a replacement in my "default lineup" just recently due to its "FINALLY just too damn bad to keep ignoring" cracking/splitting. 🤦🤷 And I'm SERIOUSLY considering just replacing it with one these reissues while I still have the chance!... Although sadly the Rock Crash in particular wasn't reissued MUCH to my dismay, but at least the regular one was! (Thankfully the standard & Rock crashes are FAR more similar than different! Although I definitely prefer the louder, higher pitched, and more piercing sound of the thicker Rock crash if given the choice. 🤷 It cuts through the chugs & thugs of a kickass metal breakdown like a hot knife through buttah!!! 😁 It's almost like it has just the sliiiightest bit of quality small size china cymbal DNA in its sound profile that the standard version has less of. 🤷 Aka very loud, bright, and forward in the natural acoustic mix [aka cuts/pierces through], but also somehow without a ton of sustain for how crazy thick it is! 😳🤯 Or at least not for its primary sound anyways! Which again, makes it IMO damn near the IDEAL metal breakdown crash! Hahaha. 🤣 Although ofc on what's usually the most hard hit primary cymbal, the Rock crash's epic thickness which makes all those bits of unique goodness happen also makes it VERY liable to slowly start cracking after a few years, as I've unfortunately gotten to experience first-hand... 🤦 That could very well be part of why it wasn't reissued with the others. 🤷)
@@Cooe. I have seen some of the z custom crashes and such that sound good, but we played a show a couple weeks ago where we all shared a kit and the guy who’s kit I was using had the z custom hi hats and I couldn’t stand them personally, they were super like crashy/washy sounding. I run cheap sabian b8s and to my ear they sounded better and they’re about 400+ dollars cheaper But it’s all subjective, we both played very different styles of music and it fit the mix for what the other band was playing better
@@diezcinco Never heard/used the Z Custom hats, just the crashes & rides. And lol no cymbal lineup, no matter how good otherwise, is impervious from having a dud though. 🤷 Happens pretty commonly actually.
@@Cooe. I know it especially as big as cymbal production is now you’re gonna have duds. Like I said they sounded good with what the guy that owned them was playing, it was like some weird electronic doom type stuff with a bunch of technical drum parts. I’m playing beat down hardcore so I don’t need nothing fancy by any means
Yes! Every time he hit it I was like omg in the right context that sad kinda bonk would add so much tension to a good nu metal song. Even industrial stuff.
Good point. Especially since I actually like a lot of cymbals that go for this sort of sound but now I know exactly what that sounds like when they fail horribly at it.
The decay reminds me more of a dark plate reverb than a crash cymbal. In fact, with a couple of transducers you could probably turn it into a reverb plate like that guy did with the IKEA table.
I turned a cheap Craigslist crash cymbal into a plate reverb in college. Don’t remember what it was, some bottom line Zildjian probably. It’s a fun project. Line-to-speaker amp, wire it a cheap speaker under the cymbal, stick a piezo to the cymbal, mic to line amp, bingo bango. You can throw a feedback line from the line out to the line in with a control knob if you want, pretty easy addition, or you can do the feedback in DAW. Probably cost like $50 plus the cymbal. It sounded GNARLY, tons of character. If it sounds fun to you, it would be.
The 16" Republic Percussion cymbal is made from B20 bronze. The hammering indicated it's a Wuhan district cymbal, just like Stagg. You'd find a lot of those under different names like CB Drums and bundled with entry level kits. To drummers out there, they may be cheap but can sound like something 10x the price!
Its funny that you had TWO of z custom crashes in this video being both... questionable 😂 I had three of them with better results, to be honest, but none survived the test of time and ear
ABSOLUTELY agree. I test drove one of these the first month they’ve were released in-store. It was horrific sounding. At the time, though, not wanting to appear stupid, I pretended like it was going to be a game changer. Which just made me look stupid.
Idk why but this video makes me want to see a CNC cut cymbal. I don’t think anyone would be willing to throw away that much bronze for something that probably sounds bad lol
I'm a musician but I do not have an ear for drums at all, usually when he pulls out a nasty cymbal I'm like "sounds fine to me" until he puts it in context. When he played this thing my jaw literally dropped right away it sounds so BAD
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Yup Zildjian are bringing back the Z Customs!
They are a totally different disk, built upon the lessons learned of the original Z's.
They are lathed and thinner to boot, they really dialled them in and are a classic 2000's sound.
Nice to see them back!
The original Z's on the other hand...
Nice!
Speaking of the new Z Customs I was blown away by the 22 inch ride and 20 inch crash they sounded soo good!
Z
damn finally a video
I swear to God, this exact cymbal is my first cymbal! It used to have some tape that was impossible to remove, so before I sold it, I had to scratch it hard! That's why there is a big clear spot near the Z !
i sold it in France in 2020 it's so random
i don't have the photos i used to sell it but i still have som random picture on which you can see it !
That Z has what we inside Zildjian called “cancer”, basically some contamination & porosity from a bad melt process. Even at the perfect thickness, those inclusions that break up the pure B20 cut the sustain down a comical amount. For lathed cymbals, once you start cutting, it’s easy to visually sort out, but without lathing you can often only hear it. And I’m betting for this series, it was anything-goes on what the cymbal “should” sound like, given the target market.
So they just never played it before sending it out? Should have been caught in QC.
So has it been a recurring problem with Zildjian? Because when I was in band from 82-86, I used Zildjian cymbals for marching band and even with softer crashes? I cracked 2 pairs during 83-84 alone. Now they did sound bright and the sound more natural during crashes, but they just cracked and fell apart. We ended up getting Sabians, not as good sounding, but heavier and more durable.
Every original Z crash I ever tried sounded like that. I always put it down to them being way too thick for what they were supposed to do - there was so much bronze there they couldn't vibrate properly.
The only z i have is a 13" z hi hat bottom with a k top. And i absolutely adore it in that role.
What is/was your role inside zildjy?
When the music is playing it sounds like instead of hitting the cymbal you are throwing a beanbag down a hallway and accidentally hitting a cymbal.
A cymbal that might take it to the Z is the Peace 12" Disc of Hate that you found at cashie's. I actually think the disc of hate has a use as a very niche effect cymbal though so i think i'd rather have that than the Z
Zildjian had just discontinued the original Z line when I started playing but I found a used one at a Guitar Center and even my young, broke-ass self in desperate need of crash cymbals didn't want anything to do with it once I heard it.
While it is quite horrible, i think it would be perfect for some funeral doom sort of metal project, i have heard some bands wich have this style of cymbal and it fits perfectly with the music.
Yeah, the only use I can think of is in like a big prog kit where you want a ton of different cymbals to add variety. It could be used every once in a while, but certainly not as the main crash cymbal
Yeah, this could be useful as an effect cymbal, but it's definitely not a Crash, at all, and it's not going to make anyone switch from Paiste RUDE.
You know what's sad? I kinda like all of them and can hear uses for each one. Even the dinky steel one, just pair it up with some trem picking and kvlt vocals and record it all in a garage in Scandinavia.
I have a cymbal with a huge chunk cut out of it and a huge crack in the process of separating the bell, yet it sounds better than that Zildjian.
Wouldn't have it in my kit. But I could see some possible usage for it as an effect cymbal in some experimental music
That Zildjian Z is just a oversized splash cymbal
I kinda like it. It makes for a nice highlight.
The mega bell was nice, I always liked that one. A buddy of mine still has one of the original ones. I think they only came in 21".
Zildjian literally just brought back the Z Customs lol
the super beat up one sounds cool as a crash, but its a very rough and dirty crash.
Worst sounding cymbal I ever owned was an 16" A Zildjian Rock Crash. Sounded like an aluminum trash can lid.
Ah yeah the zildjan aluminum cooking sheet. Honestly bet one of them with a hole drilled into it and mounted would sound about the same
I have 2 of those cymbals. Got them both free back in 2005. One sounds just like your one and the other sounds 10x worse. They sound kinda cool on super dry recordings.
Those signatures are so nice. Should have never sold mines
I used to use a 20" Z power crash as my poor man's K Custom. Close enough for fusion!
I don't even drum knowing good, I know not good, many laughing
Ironically the rude splash cymbals really work well paired up with the z custom rock crashes ' 18 china
12 z splash and z hi hats not dyno beats
2:21 I didn't know Kevin Sorbo made cymbals.
That’s a real dog
Yay, the drum thing’s back!
The original Z 12" splash was pretty good. I have two of those and a 1st Gen 12" Z Custom splash. All are quite nice. Had an 18" original Z Power Smash. It was like a really heavy Pang. Not so great. I have an original 20" Z Light Power Ride with no logos. It's pretty nice, better with a couple of strips of painter's tape on the bottom. I wouldn't turn down a set of the new Z Customs they just released this week.
Good God, I wasn't prepared for how bad that was going to be when you hit it.
I bought the Scimitar Bronze series back then because I wasn't fond of the Z series carry used them for 6+ years before switching to Sabian.
It sounds like a trash can lid
Not using any kind of cymbal sleeve on your cymbal stand? That's metal to metal contact, which is likely to make the cymbal sound harsh and wear it out more quickly. I wonder what the reasoning is behind setting things up this way?
Agreed, it sounds absolutely disgusting.
what really makes it so terrible is it... starts out making SOME kind of useful sound, and then just falls on its face. Like someone who kinda has a good voice but no confidence so they just make squeaking noises, which is like, somehow worse than your tone-deaf friend belting it at karaoke, because it's just so damned /awkward/
Wow. That's bad.
Pearl Crash Ride, emphasis on CRASH.
I actually love the sound, but it's just not compatible with how a crash would normally be used.
Who turned off the treble?
I would drill holes in the Z and put 8 rivets in it...I would use it as a jazz ride.I have a 13'' Z on the bottom hi-hat..The top is a brilliant K...beautiful hats.ALL my cymbals are K brilliant finish.15'' dark crash and a 17'' dark crash.................Ralph Onofrio.....USA
That Zildjian Z does sound pretty bad. I guess I got pretty lucky with the one I have because it sounds nothing like that.
Most Heavy cymbals sound terrible except rides
I've never heard that bad Zildjian cymbal in my whole life. In fact Zildjian cymbals are probably the best ones out there. Heh, not even the cheapest Zultan or Meinl cymbals are that bad!
Can you use it to stack maybe?
That reminds me of a stop sign...
It bonks and gongs at the same time. It bongs
i love bongs
gonks and bongs
I bong everyday
Load up that swish og
That's a bong I wouldn't be happy to be with.
Zildjian really figured out how to make a B20 bronze cymbal sound like a stop sign huh?
Nah, stop sign is unique.
Introducing the Zildjian Aluminum.
i was so hoping he'd bust out the stop sign
Yeah, good idea for a sheet of metal , even appliances work too. A guy used to make cymbals with sheet metal on youtube!
I mean Wade has done a video on the stop sign symbol... it sounds like you think it'd sound
I never though I'd hear a cymbal that literally sounds depressed.
As someone with 0 musical understanding
that thing sounds like its underwater
Probably because it has a lot less high end presence than a normal cymbal
I too have zero musical sense, and I agree it sounds like a hubcap.
As someone with musical understanding, I agree
@@mrblack5145 funny thing is that hubcaps would probably sound better lol
its strangely quiet??
i love the fact that, even though it’s not a good sound, it’s literally exactly what someone is looking for. someone out there has been searching for that exact sound. that’s what i love most about music and instruments, even if it’s not what you want, it’s someone else’s dream
yeah honestly i can think of a lot of contexts where it would sound really cool!
@@bubbillusionwhat like the boff sound to go with the words from the 66 batman show
@@bubbillusionexactly. This guy and everybody commenting is just saying that it's automatically bad because it doesn't work for the context he's using it with. If you aren't the target audience then of course you won't make it sound good. Just look at china cymbals. They sound absolutely ugly on their own but with the right player and in the right context, they can sound absolutely amazing.
Hate to say it but some cymbals are objectively terrible, this is definitely one of them. It may be someone's favorite sound if their goal is to repel entire audiences
@@jayall00 skill issue
Now you can have that “brother practicing drums downstairs” sound on your own kit!
It literally chokes itself. No grab required. Genius
There are literally brass-stamped cymbals that come included in a drum starter kit for $300 that sound better than the Z power crash.
It’s a bonk but it realizes that people don’t want the bonk about mid way through so it gets self conscious and tries to stop
This is fuckin gold man thanks you gave me a good laugh
haha I swear there's a split second when you can hear how it's supposed to sound but then it just doesn't
i laughed so hard i choked
We need to have a "really that bad" cymbol bonanza. A whole drum kit of skyscraper grade steel.
"We've used computer assisted hammering and all of our metallurgic knowledge to make this B20 cymbal sound like you closed the lid on a trash can too hard..."
Yes! Galvanized garbage can banging on concrete!
I thought for sure I wasn't going to be able to hear a difference, but it's truly awful!
You clearly never heard of a Swish Knocker.
Seeing all the "computer generated" marketing in that magazine ad at 0:32 I am convinced Zildjian would be marketing this as "ooooh AI designed" if these cymbals released today
That's not even a crash cymbal. It's a bonk cymbal.
I like the Paiste rudes tbh. Especially the sound edge hihats… super crisp sound! Best hihat I have owned. Looking forward to buy a new pair when they are back in stock!
The jaw drop I experienced after hearing that first 'clonk' is rivaled only by the introduction of the 20" steel DXP from the egg cymbal video
I had to go back to the egg cymbal to listen to the 20" DXP steel again after this video. The sound of that thing is still special and hilarious.
It honestly made me laugh. After he said he hated the rude at the beginning I didn’t think it sounded too bad, so I expected the Z to not be too terrible. Boy was I wrong.
@@Rand2k1 I actually really like the sound of the Rude.
Even on expensive studio monitors the Zildjian just ... disappears in a mix lmao
You gotta do a whole video about the Rudes, they’re iconic at this point
LMAO that cymbal sounds like its soul died or something. Never knew drums could lose the will to live!
😂😂😂
It sounds like a gong that is rapidly being pulled away from you
The Gonplar Effect
this is so vivid that its all i can think about when i hear this cymbal now
i've never heard a more accurate explanation for a cymbals sound
You have a wonderful way with words
Finally, the cymbal that tosses itself!
The Zildjian version of the RUDE was the Impulse line before they did the Z line. Tim Alexander (Primus) still plays one. I love that the right drummer can make any gear sound good.
If the St. Anger snare was a cymbal.
No, wait, Lars used these.
Because of course he did.
-_-
@@Serris412that's hilarious
@@Serris412 Wait what songs they use that in because there is no way anything rememberable used these
@@nickrustyson8124I would guess it's the select few songs in MoP and AJfA that soundnlike there's no crash cymbals in them
@@nickrustyson8124the mix compensates for many things. That's the upside for playing thrash metal I guess...
Timed it too well because Zildjian just reissued the Z's.
They reissued the Z Customs NOT the originals. Those are VERY different cymbals. 🤷 Z Customs kick ass!
As a metal drummer first & foremost, I've used a Z Custom as my "main squeeze" crash (the 16" "Z Custom Rock Crash" to be specific) for like a decade now! 🌝
With me only being in the market for a replacement in my "default lineup" just recently due to its "FINALLY just too damn bad to keep ignoring" cracking/splitting. 🤦🤷 And I'm SERIOUSLY considering just replacing it with one these reissues while I still have the chance!... Although sadly the Rock Crash in particular wasn't reissued MUCH to my dismay, but at least the regular one was!
(Thankfully the standard & Rock crashes are FAR more similar than different! Although I definitely prefer the louder, higher pitched, and more piercing sound of the thicker Rock crash if given the choice. 🤷 It cuts through the chugs & thugs of a kickass metal breakdown like a hot knife through buttah!!! 😁
It's almost like it has just the sliiiightest bit of quality small size china cymbal DNA in its sound profile that the standard version has less of. 🤷 Aka very loud, bright, and forward in the natural acoustic mix [aka cuts/pierces through], but also somehow without a ton of sustain for how crazy thick it is! 😳🤯 Or at least not for its primary sound anyways! Which again, makes it IMO damn near the IDEAL metal breakdown crash! Hahaha. 🤣
Although ofc on what's usually the most hard hit primary cymbal, the Rock crash's epic thickness which makes all those bits of unique goodness happen also makes it VERY liable to slowly start cracking after a few years, as I've unfortunately gotten to experience first-hand... 🤦 That could very well be part of why it wasn't reissued with the others. 🤷)
Got a 16 and 18 Z Custom hanging out on my kit right now and they are great
@@Cooe. I have seen some of the z custom crashes and such that sound good, but we played a show a couple weeks ago where we all shared a kit and the guy who’s kit I was using had the z custom hi hats and I couldn’t stand them personally, they were super like crashy/washy sounding. I run cheap sabian b8s and to my ear they sounded better and they’re about 400+ dollars cheaper
But it’s all subjective, we both played very different styles of music and it fit the mix for what the other band was playing better
@@diezcinco Never heard/used the Z Custom hats, just the crashes & rides. And lol no cymbal lineup, no matter how good otherwise, is impervious from having a dud though. 🤷 Happens pretty commonly actually.
@@Cooe. I know it especially as big as cymbal production is now you’re gonna have duds. Like I said they sounded good with what the guy that owned them was playing, it was like some weird electronic doom type stuff with a bunch of technical drum parts. I’m playing beat down hardcore so I don’t need nothing fancy by any means
Lars loved these. He was always playing them live back in the day. Fitting....
The "lower quality" cymbals are all EXCELLENT nu-metal percussion...
One of my local nu-metal bands literally uses a trash can lid for an effect bonk. The drummer's nickname is Neil Dirt lmao.
I find that even my least favorite cymbals sound perfect in the right context.
Slipknot?
@@dcurry7287 What a rad nickname
Yes! Every time he hit it I was like omg in the right context that sad kinda bonk would add so much tension to a good nu metal song. Even industrial stuff.
he's adding his custom hammer marks to the cymbals he throws, what an entrepreneur
Ballistic hammering!
It genuinely sounds like you smashed it with a super soft marimba mallet and held the mallet on there
Sometimes you have to have your definition of “sounds good” recalibrated by hearing the things that sound bad.
Good point. Especially since I actually like a lot of cymbals that go for this sort of sound but now I know exactly what that sounds like when they fail horribly at it.
Ive played radiators that sound nicer than this Z
It got to the point that by the end of the video I forgot what a cymbal is supposed to sound like.
I think we’re looking at it wrong. More of a ‘pocket gong’ than cymbal. Now it sounds great.
The no name children's kit cymbal actually makes for a quiet decent splash cymbal.
WAKE UP BOYS NEW DRUM THING JUST DROPPED
WOOO GADIES AND LENTLEMEN, A CYMBAL THINGY!!!!
Only took him two months
@@Miles6400 true, but he’s also managing 3 channels and making a website for his museum
@@mariothedevil1537 yoooo i forgot about that u know what its called (the website)
This gave me “Get up co**suckers, it’s all over…” vibes 😂😂
It has a wonderful "Ehh, good enough" attitude. The bonk of a tricycle crash and the hiss of a wet fart. 10/10
The decay reminds me more of a dark plate reverb than a crash cymbal. In fact, with a couple of transducers you could probably turn it into a reverb plate like that guy did with the IKEA table.
Sounds more like the metal grate that covers the central ac system intake than a cymbal.
I don't know, I suspect it would suck horribly as a reverb plate but could be wrong.
Brillant idea!!
I turned a cheap Craigslist crash cymbal into a plate reverb in college. Don’t remember what it was, some bottom line Zildjian probably. It’s a fun project. Line-to-speaker amp, wire it a cheap speaker under the cymbal, stick a piezo to the cymbal, mic to line amp, bingo bango. You can throw a feedback line from the line out to the line in with a control knob if you want, pretty easy addition, or you can do the feedback in DAW.
Probably cost like $50 plus the cymbal. It sounded GNARLY, tons of character. If it sounds fun to you, it would be.
The 16" Republic Percussion cymbal is made from B20 bronze. The hammering indicated it's a Wuhan district cymbal, just like Stagg. You'd find a lot of those under different names like CB Drums and bundled with entry level kits. To drummers out there, they may be cheap but can sound like something 10x the price!
Dankpods looks like hes on a Las Vegas vacation
That cymbal sounds like a refund.
nothing could have prepared me for how that sounded, that is absolute garbage
The best feature of the Z is the mesmerising ripple it does after being hit
the DXP steel sounds like a frying pan hahaha
Well, it basically is one. It's a frying pan coated in gold glitter paint.
Same materials :P
I never fail to laugh when something you hit with a stick just goes *CLANG*
That was the bonkest sounding pot lid I've ever heard 😂
Wade is looking more and more like the embodiment of "60s/70s" everyday... And im all here for it.
Finally, pre-choked
Well it lives up to RUDE, it had a bad day so its a bit grumpy
That broken tossed around Pearl ride cymbal sounded 1000x better than that POS. Very trashy and awesome
Hearing the first strike of that Zildjian Z has made me laugh harder than it should have. It sounds awful
A garb time and a drum thing? You're spoiling us mate
Zildjan really said, “We are determined to never be satisfied with our quality. Here’s what that feels like.”
Zildjian made a metal table 😭😭
Its funny that you had TWO of z custom crashes in this video being both... questionable 😂 I had three of them with better results, to be honest, but none survived the test of time and ear
ABSOLUTELY agree. I test drove one of these the first month they’ve were released in-store. It was horrific sounding. At the time, though, not wanting to appear stupid, I pretended like it was going to be a game changer. Which just made me look stupid.
just go for stupid, you are better off (but never go full retard)
Idk why but this video makes me want to see a CNC cut cymbal. I don’t think anyone would be willing to throw away that much bronze for something that probably sounds bad lol
If I have some laying around (I always have stuff around), I could try to make one, and try to make it sound good?
@@officiallilsideshow that’s definitely a video i would watch. I didn’t even realise people have bronze just laying around lol
@@Flapjck it's weird, I have like everything lying around, from car parts to collectable toys, weird stuff
it sounds like it's trying to pretend it's painted
yay drum dude is back
7:35 The "EAK, challenge everything" joke awakened some nostalgia deep in my brain
A cymbal that straight up sounds like a vine boom. Marvelous.
I'm a musician but I do not have an ear for drums at all, usually when he pulls out a nasty cymbal I'm like "sounds fine to me" until he puts it in context. When he played this thing my jaw literally dropped right away it sounds so BAD
BELLY laughing when you hit the Z Custom
The zed: "all of those songs are not quite my tempo"
The comments couldn't prepare me for how soul-destroying that sound would be.