Buying THE WEIRDEST Cymbals I Could Find

Music used (background & playalongs)

Cymbals:
0:00 24" Creative Percussion Steel FX Ride Cymbal
1:31 18" Sabian Rocktagon Hihats
3:22 11" Wuhan Linear Splash
4:57 Sabian V-Wave FX
6:43 18" Masterworks Blank Crash (my favorite of the bunch)

Yet again we're looking at some weird cymbals! We have some steel cymbals, some geometric cymbals, some weird wavy cymbals, and some blank cymbals.

The 24" Creative Percussion FX Ride Cymbal is made of steel and is fully hammered. This thing is BEYOND DRY, dare I say the driest cymbal ever. It look cool at-least, you don't see too many blue cymbals out there...

The Sabian Rocktagon is a cymbal we looked at in the past, but I found another! What do you do when you have two 18" Rocktagons? Make a set of weird hihats of course! These things are LOUD! Not the most musical, but have a cool sound unlike any other hihats out there.

Similar to the Rocktagon, next we have the Wuhan Linear splash. This is a 5 sided 11" splash cymbal. its pretty bright and trashy and would be one of the least weird cymbals sound wise. I would love to find a larger Wuhan Linear cymbal, but the 11" was all I could find.

Like death metal rides? Hate how big and heavy they are? Try the Sabian V-Wave! I dont even know how to describe this "cymbal." Its a big rectangular plate that has a swoopy do bent in it. Its super thick, really bright and has the sound quality of a dinner bell that the pioneers would use in the early 1800s.

My favorite cymbal would have to be the 18" Masterworks Blank Crash. Usually cymbal blanks sound raw, dry, and quiet. The Masterworks cymbal is the total opposite! Its bright, splashy, trashy, and explosive all while having a quick decay. Making it the perfect crash cymbal in my book!

Buying MORE of the WEIRDEST Cymbals I Could Find

[rdavidr]

That blank crash was👌Which was your favorite?

[whyhatestrangers]

A rare moment of blast beats performed by rdavidr. And he doesn’t disappoint. It almost seems like he immediately figured out the best use for the crazy cymbal, and then executed like a natural? I wonder how many takes of that he did. And is it just me or did those crazy hats sound better and better as the video went on. Almost like he subconsciously learned how to make them sound more musical as he experimented. I dunno, but this is probably my favorite video on this channel lately.

[mexicanmaggot]

This is a historical moment: David playing METAL??? AND A BLAST BEAT?!?! Loved that VFX cymbal, so weird yet so cool!

[daltonidaho]

That last groove was sick! All those weird cymbals worked together to create a naturally crushed, saturated sound. Even that purple ride fit right in. You did a good job at making these things musical!

[Ugrasrava]

When I was younger, I took part in all percussion performance where the instruments were made entirely from junk people threw out during spring cleaning. I constructed a weird, drumset sort of thing out of a washing machine and assorted crap. The "ride" was literally a piece of sheet metal.

It sounded better than that alien egg steel *thing.*

[EMCproductions]

The V-Wave blast beat is the best thing I've seen all year.

[thatdudekyle]

That Linear splash actually sounds really cool

[jaidenamccarroll]

You know it's a good day when David uploads.

[jdub]

I love the roctagon hats! But that crash of mmmwwaah. That's going on my wish list. Everything in this video was very metal!! LOVE IT! ✌️🤟🤘

[paulrevelli]

While I wouldn't necessarily go after any of these myself, I was more impressed by the fact that you grooved and made music with all of them. If you closed your eyes and just listened, they all sounded awesome to me in the context of which they were played. Kudos to you for making that happen.

[flapjack]

Haha, that first cymbal, the steel one, sounded like when I was a small kid and would try to make a drum set out of random buckets and containers around the house, and the pie tins that I would use for "cymbals", sounds just like those tins did!!!

[alsdrumhang]

The CP ride sounded like playing on a traffic sign. I love the trashy Rocktagon hats vibe! The Linear splash is -- unique. But not unusable. Sounds great with the rest of these sounds! The V-Wave makes a very styling hat (not so much an instrument I'd use). I *want* one of those Masterworks blanks! They sound AMAZEBALLS.

This has to be my favorite episode yet. I never ralized the influence of cymbals on a kit‘s character. Thank you for this!

[vintageludwig]

The linear splash actually sounded nice. Also the closed rocktagon hats sound pretty dope.

[sleepwhenimdead]

That steel ride with the bow was EPIC. I bet a sound designer would love that thing

[patrickdudgeon]

😂😂😂😂The rocktagon hats were ridiculous.

[CBRansom]

You always find the most practical applications for the products you test. It's like the manufacturer had the song you chose and your playing in mind when they built their instrument. By the way, your playing just keeps getting better and better! Thanks for sharing your talents!

[Natenick]

I think that bumpy ride would work best as a back beat accentuator. Has kind of a snare-like sound. I’d use it the same way you’d use a clap stack.

[henryspragens]

I have never wanted anything more in my life than to see David play a euro blast 🤤

[mollemannen]

Wierd how everything sounds better together.