So I realized after my studio session that I had incorrectly attached my snare wires on a few of my drums. I had grown used to my stock Sonor snare wires. These have special channels that will allow you to thread anyway you please. However, a lot of my vintage drums and some with Puresound wires require you to thread them a certain way.
Someone else has done the homework and here is a great link that goes into detail:
http://snaredrumz.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-properly-thread-snare-cord.html
The snare and bass drum are really in my opinion the heart of your drum kit and you want these to sound great. I took sometime last night and tonight correcting any snare wires done incorrectly and also took the advice to wax my chrome drums. I thought metal polish would be enough but wow my chrome drums are now mirror finish after a nice coat of wax.
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Now I just have to test drive my snares. Live I normally play my Benny Greb or SQ2 snares. I have a lot of shows coming up so I will be rotating my vintage snares through and getting an idea of their best uses.
Manny