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Drum Set Accessories Cymbal Ching Stainless Steel Tambourine with Double Row Jingles Replacement for Hihats Crashes Rides Stacks
Maxime Olivier
Reviewed in Canada on January 9, 2024
I decided to get this product because it’s been a while since I wanted to have one to add variety to the kind of sound I can get out of my drum kit.The product is made for 14 inch snare or tom and has 8 double rows of jingles. The product is very easy to use. You put it on the part of your choice and that’s it. If you use it on your snare, It might sound better if you turn the snare off. If you use it on a tom that the ring fits, it can add an extra sound on top of the original one. Be aware that it will remove a bit of sustain and a lot of overtones.It’s my first time using it and here’s what I think about it. The product, in my opinion, adds a subtil sound to your drum. It is not very loud and will be better for certain styles of music that are softer, like folk, indie-rock, etc. In the description, it is said that it can be used on cymbals. I tried it but didn’t like the sound. Some drum accessories are better for cymbals, like sizzlers.All in all, I would highly recommend it if you plan on using it with a snare or floor tom.
T Bruce Wittet
Reviewed in Canada on December 21, 2023
This is a well-meaning product that makes a superb gift. You are giving a drummer a true accessory to modify his/her sound. By “true” I mean it's not a gadget. It's a useful tone-altering device that can be slipped easily into a cymbal bag, or atop a snare drum in its case. But every silver cloud has a dark lining.The problem is obvious from the get-go. You read the sales pitch here and it seems that the product is some sort of replacement in tonality, as per: “Cymbal bells can replace old drum cymbal bells”. But, well, this is clearly not a cymbal bell and there's precious little similarity between the frequency of steel jingles and thick bronze bells.It's easy to trash a translation and thereby trash a product. This was not my intent. I quickly recognized this as a version of the old product I reviewed 20-years ago in Modern Drummer magazine. And nowadays, there are a few companies making these.Here's the reasons to consider this product for a drummer of any age. First it's a professional-level item priced accordingly but not over-priced. It's well-made. In fact, it's very well made. To keep the drumstick from targeting the jingles and breaking one or two, there is a generous space you'll see where there are no jingles. The stick is free to strike a rimshot here without coming near a jingle.Alas, this is the first, and possibly only, problem with the jingle ring. It is meant to jingle away when you strike a snare, or as I discovered, a floor tom.On snare, however, the plastic circumference ring material is so thick it muffles the drum and mutes the frequencies that might otherwise have generated a bright, chiming tone. As it is, you can barely hear the jingling. I'd recommend placing it on a snare drum that's tensioned fairly loosely. I used it with the snare wires disengaged. The high frequencies may be taken out of the equation but the lows promote another sort of jingling, this one audible.I'll get right to the point. I tried it on a cymbal, as (I think) the manufacturer suggests. I just hung the ring off the center rod of the cymbal stand and it made an American cymbal sound more like an old Turkish one. But, drum roll please, this thing sounds great on floor tom. You can get that “Come Together” Beatles vibe going, you know where Ringo's riding on his floor tom (keeping time on that drum) and it's actually got a tea towel covering the drumhead/skin. I've always been into riding floor toms for rock and for singer-songwriter styles and this works: the jingle while still not tambourine-like is the sort of contemporary tone drummers are seeking. Thus the suggestion as a gift for any drummer. Pardon the mess in my studio but you can see I put it through the paces. Tbw
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