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Hi all,

Just curious what are your favorite snare sound or sounds?

If posting perhaps it can done as follows;

Drummer:
Album(s):
Song(s):
Band:
Additional Info: i.e. Producer, Engineer, actual drum, etc., and any other pertinent info.


Drummer: Rick Allen
Album: High and Dry, and Pyromania
Songs: All
Band: Def Leppard
Additional Info: Producer - Mutt Lange, Engineer - Nigel Green?, Ludwig Black Beauty afaik. This sound almost set an 80s/90s standard at one point.

Drummer: Mick Brown
Album: Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
Songs: All
Band: Lynch Mob
Additional Info: Producer/Engineer - Max Norman

Drummer: Alex Van Halen
Album: Various but particularly 5150, F.U.C.K., Balance
Songs: Various but particularly Summer Nights, Poundcake, Seventh Seal
Band: Van Halen
Additional Info: Producer - Ted Templeman, Van Halen, and ??, Engineer - Don Landee, Van Halen, and ??.

John Bonham.

Every snare hit he recorded.

Flames1950 wrote:John Bonham.

Every snare hit he recorded.

I hear ya. Sort of why I didn't list Bonham as well because it was just about everything for me too. I think for me as well, his kick drum was bad ass...almost better than his snare.

Flames1950 wrote:John Bonham.

Every snare hit he recorded.

+1 My Fav Hands down

From a guitar players view (clost drummer) I also admired these boys :

Bill Bruford -
Hilacious rim shot and control. {it is because of him I replaced my Snare with the new style wide wood hoop ring Snares that Yamaha and others are currently making.}

Terry Bozzio, Neal Peart, Ian Paice, Cozy Powell, & Richard Bailey on Beck's Blow by Blow.

Monsters with Monster Snares

Always dug the Peter Criss snare sound on the old KISS albums......

One of the most underrated....Ian Paice from Fireball, Who Do We Think e Are, Machine Head and Burn era. Godliness.

Charlie Watts

Bonham

Phil Rudd (OK give Mutt credit for this one)

just about every snare on James Brown records


so many good ones...

VG

It's hard to find much stuff later than '80 that you can guarantee you're hearing the real snare hit instead of replaced sounds.........

Old KISS records...Peter Criss.....good call. Not the flashiest guy out there but I always liked what he did.

phil rudd - both the young/vanda and the mutt lange productions

Steve Gorman, Black Crowes.

The "By Your Side" Album.

Top marks for his Bonham Snare sound on that album. In fact, top marks for his whole drum sound on that record. Just perfect.

ALSO......Denny Carmassi on the Coverdale/Page album, specifically the track "Absolution Blues"

Both great snare sounds. Check em out!