I've heard that you should,..because when you come out of a fill,thats usually where you end up..........on the FT.........
Then,you don't have to reach above your mounted tom(s) to hit a crash.........
I've been doing that ever since I read that...........
Yeah, figured out myself that that's very handy!
especially cause i play a lot on my ride it feels logical to end on the right after a fill!!
Have one on the left aswell, but hey, you can't have to much cymbals right? ;)
I have a 17" 2002 thin above my FT. That way for 20 years. Just kind of happened that way.
B
18" crash over my rack tom, 19" crash over my ride, 16" crash just to the right of my ride, slightly above the floor tom. I find that set up handy, because I do a 3 hit combo with the cymbals often (16 with RH, 18 with LH, 19 with RH...). Also, when I play the ride or end a fill on the low tom, I have the option of crashing the largest or the smallest crash on the right side. Works for me.
I use an 18" Rock Crash over my 16" floor tom, as well as a 15" Lampshade cymbal (china/splash-ish sound) over my 18" floor tom.
I have two crashes; a bright A.Zildjian thin 16" over the rack tom and a dark sounding 18" Istanbul Sultan crash right over my two floor toms. My thinking is; the 'bright' crash over the 'high' tom, 'dark' crash over the 'deep' sounding floor toms. Just sounds good to me set-up that way. Good spread on the pitch of the cymbals, lots of contrast. Gish, goosh.
John
Got a 16 black label medium Paiste over there......
16" thin, 18" medium, an 18" china and a 28" gong. If you going to end it, end it big.
...I got a stainless steel pot lid over mine...:p
