Cymbal Downloads Zildjian K Sounds

[jamin]

It occurred to me that the best way to evaluate which cymbals I would want to purchase for my acoustic kit is if I could download those sounds to my Crimson II module in order to "trial" the different ZK's that I like. Anyone know of any downloadable sounds that most re-create the Zildjian (or another maker's) cymbals? If not, it seems a huge oversight on the manufacturers part not to have this option available. Most who own an ekit either also own an acoustic or a hybrid of the two. Anyone?

[Jokeyman123]

Even if you could find accurate samples of any particular cymbal-something is bound to be lost in the translation no matter how good the samples IMO-since just one cymbal will have so many colorations based upon where its struck, how it's struck, and even individual stampings and turnings of the same cymbal will be different from one another out of the manufacturer's assembly.

The only way I approximate, in this age of lack of real drum stores to try each cymbal out (how I had hand-picked my original Zildjians in the 60's-from Manny's Music in NYC) is to listen with good sound equipment to demos on Youtube, or other demo video/audios online. Not great compared to a personal in-house test.

Given that-I had purchased a 20" Bliss thin ride after listening to some online demos. Once I got it here, it sounded dreadful-no overtones, more like a Chinese trash cymbal rather than the ride it seemed to sound like on the Youtube demos. Then again, a 16" Wuhan thin crash, through my same process listening/watching demos online-surprised me completely-sounded clean, excellent attack and roll-off, and as full as an 18-20" Zildjian or Paiste crash.

I own and play a Yamaha Custom acoustic kit and a DTXtreme electronic kit with the rubber pads. I currently play a Zildjian Amir 18" medium ride, a ZBT Zildjian 21" medium ride, a 16" Wuhan thin crash, and a Stagg (not terrible) 18" thin crash plus a pair of 13" Zildjian Masterbeat hats and a pair of cheap chinese hats, which upon getting, discovered these are better as trash crash cymbals, my hi-hat stand rejected these as hi-hats, almost unrecognizable for hats, and the online demo made these seem at least passable but they weren't.

[Jesse]

I cann't remember which site it was, but I was able to listen to various weights of the same cymbal I was checking out

That was real nice1

[Jesse]

I was day dreaming looking for a nice pair of 15" hi hat cymbals and I like the sound of these, I can't afford them, but I do like the sound

https://zildjian.com/products/k-custom- ... 4622780708

These Fast Crash cymbals are nice also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwHWlO6QMyU