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1978 14"x6,5" Super Sensitive snare bed... Last viewed: 5 hours ago

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Hey guys.

I Wanted to put another snare head on my SS and notices this, when I put the drum on a flat table: It has a smal 'dip' in the bearing edge on both sides, where the snare would be.

Is this normal, or is my shell out of shape...

The first two photo's are from the edge on both sides where the snare would come. You can clearly see a dip.

The third photo is from the badge side of the drum. The edge is flat on the table. The same is at the other side. So no dip on these sides...

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Posted on 7 years ago
#1
Guest

Those are the snare beds, which were the same on the supras as on the super sensitives.

Posted on 7 years ago
#2
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So it's normal that the bearing edge of the reso side is not flat on the table?

Posted on 7 years ago
#3
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Yes,without snare beds the drum would choke in terms of sensitivity and response.

Most snares have them in varying degrees of width and depth.

Some drum corps style marching snares do not and use special zero collar snare side resonant heads to work correctly.

Posted on 7 years ago
#4
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From jeebee

So it's normal that the bearing edge of the reso side is not flat on the table?

The way the snare beds on most modern snare drums are designed is to "fool" the snare head into thinking it's flat. In other words, they're very gradual and wide, sometimes not even noticeable when the head is tensioned properly.

Drums like the Rogers Dynasonic, while it's said that they have no snare bed, but they actually do, and it's only (barely) visible when checked on a flat surface, without heads on.

Posted on 7 years ago
#5
Guest

BTW, the drum in your pictures looks like a Supraphonic, rather than Super Sensitive. The difference would be that the strainer mechanism

on the SS would have a different drilling pattern, with holes to allow for the parallel mechanism rod to pass all the way through the shell (above the bead). Otherwise, the shells are the same.

Also notice that the snare beds are (or should be) centered where the strainer and butt side are drilled.

Posted on 7 years ago
#6
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It's not a super sensitive. The snare beds are factory and perfectly normal looking...

John

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Posted on 7 years ago
#7
Posts: 170 Threads: 107

Thanks for the info!

I'm sure it's a super sensitive, here is an extra photo when the SS strainer and all are attached. The third and fourth hole for the rod are not visible on the photo's I have already send. They are slightly higher, and didn't make it on the picture.

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Posted on 7 years ago
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I apologize for my mistake. Nice drum.

Posted on 7 years ago
#9
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Another question sorry...

Is it normal that the rim of the reso head gently touches the strainer mechnism (steel part attached to the shell)?

Posted on 7 years ago
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