How to Replace or Upgrade Snare Wires

If your snare is sounding a bit too dull, swapping the wires to a fresh set can breathe new life into your drum. In this video, Sweetwater‘s drumming dynamo Nick D‘Virgilio discusses the importance of maintaining and upgrading snare wires over time while demonstrating how easy it is to install new ones at home. Check it out!

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[sweetwater]

Add some snap to your snare with upgraded wires! Nick D. walks us through the install 🥁

[tylerbailey]

Changing snare wires is one of the most mundane things in the world for me; I'm genuinely impressed with Nick just for keeping his cool haha.

[Stealthbich]

Nick is by far the BEST investment sweetwater could’ve ever made.

[CrashnServers]

I could listen and learn with Nick all day.

[shalinpather]

Can't believe I wasted 1, 5 hours of my life that I'll never get back, trying to get figure it out and get this right, for whatever reason. Yet, this video helped me do it in under ten minutes. Thanks so much!

[DrumJunkie-pkoo]

I just had to replace the wires on my snare for the first time. And this video helped me out tremendously. Thank you so much to whoever you are.

[bg]

I've been playing drums for 16 years and didn't know I needed this video ... thank you Nick!

[kimlinn]

An important detail to add, the snares have two sides, the snare bracket soldered side, and snare bracket unsoldered, or smooth side
Typically the soldered side is against the head, however, some bracket manufacturers, have a slight pitch, some are flat

[Psychlist]

I love that classic Jon Lovitz is teaching us how to repair drums :D

[alpal]

Have you ever heard of the close up shot?? Can’t see the important details that I was seeking

[kenkeisler]

Is there a top and bottom of the wire? What side goes up? Not showing someone who never did properly.

[jueslega]

I have this very specific problem, the tensión rod of the wire doesnt work, it doesnt spin

[tendingtropic]

Thanks for this! I have a ludwig acrolite with P85 strainer and the plastic ribbon slips/moves at the butt end (screws are as tight as can be). So I can't put the snares on as tight as I'd like. Known issue? fixes for it?

[monzprod]

Do one with the wires version please. 🙏

[dejulesb]

I'm having a problem when I switch off the snares ther is a buzz when I hit the drum. Is that supposed to happen?

[mrmoon]

Wondering what that piece of fabric/cloth was between the snare wires & bottom head?

[thepluggy]

My favourite wires aren't Canopus, puresounds are just too dark sounding for me.

[spicytuna]

When you say “make your tweak” I wish you would have explained what you are trying to accomplish .

[sparkplugrecs.official]

this guy looks like a dollar store john lovitz..

[tomterrif]

Uh...snare wires have a top and a bottom...this should have been shown.