hi guys
I've just been given a Pearl 20" Pro Ride cymbal and don't know anything about this particular brand. Is it B20 or B8? Any ideas about the era when this cymbal was produced?
Some info about my particular cymbal: weight = 2340g; bright-sounding ping; fairly minimal hammering as you would expect from the sound.
Any information appreciated ;)
I am trying to remember what I read about the Pearl cymbals in the
Cymbal Book , as I remember they started offering mid level and pro series in the eighties, some series names had numbers like cz-500,700 etc and a series called Wild.I think they discontinued marketing these series by the nineties.
I think they offered cymbals in both B-20 and B-8.
Some of them sounded like dinner plates ,some like trash can lids,and a few were really nice,I sat in at a friends gig and their drummer had a 20" ride,looked like B-20 to me,he found it in a pawn shop in the late 90's,and it sounded great,I thought it sounded like a cross between a Zildjian and a Paiste,a nice crystaline
ping like a paiste but with some trash like a Zil,with a really nice bell. I had not thought about that cymbal in years until I read this thread,and since then I have aquired a UFIP class 20' ride,and now that I think about it the pearl sounded a lot like it,makes me wonder if Pearl consigned UFIP to make them for them,UFIP has always made a lot of stencil cymbals I have heard,and I imagine tooling up and hiring Labor to make cymbals would be pretty expensive,even if you outsourced blanks.
Hope this helps,I am sure someone on here will post with more solid info.
I think it's B2, and we all know what #2 is! LOL!
This might help, it usually is a great guide for any cymbal with a drum manufacturers name on it, excluding the old Ludy Standard pies that were made by Paiste, some of those actually sound decent.
Bright, annoying pitch = B8
Thick, trash-can pitch = B20
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since then I have aquired a UFIP class 20' ride,and now that I think about it the pearl sounded a lot like it,makes me wonder if Pearl consigned UFIP to make them for them,UFIP has always made a lot of stencil cymbals I have heard,and I imagine tooling up and hiring Labor to make cymbals would be pretty expensive,even if you outsourced blanks. Hope this helps,I am sure someone on here will post with more solid info.
From what I understand, the CX-series of cymbals, CX300, CX500,CX600, Wild series, etc., were made in-house at Pearl back then in the 80's. Again, much like the Ludwig Standard Paiste's.....some were real nice, most were clunkers though.
Responding to OP original question Pearl Pro Series if anything was an intermediate level cymbal that Pearl started putting out in 1996. I don't think these cymbals were made by Pearl. Pretty sure another company made them and put Pearl logos on them. I've heard they are pretty decent but don't compare to the CX 500, 600 or 900 cymbals that Pearl made in the 1980s.
