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Noiseworks Dark Buzz China Set 11"/18"

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Overview

Extremely dark and bone dry.

The Paiste Noisewords deliver a sound character that's dark, crunchy, and explosive. Narrow, compact range and complex mix. These responsive china cymbals have a medium feel; short, exotic, crunchy crash function, extremely spreading, buzzing and woody ride function. Individual cymbals function very well as dark, complex, trashy splash and china cymbals.


Introduction: 2002

Background: Create Hi-Hats and Cymbal Stack Combos for modern electronic musical applications such as Dance, House and Drum & Bass - Emulate sampled and electronically processed cymbal sounds in a natural drum set environment

Innovation: Created extremely interesting alternative crash, ride, hi-hat and x-hat functions for most modern musical settings - Individual cymbals used are true and useful cymbals in themselves

Alloy: Patented Signature Bronze, CuSn8 Bronze, also known as "2002 Alloy", NS12 Nickel-Silver, MS63 Brass

Quality: Professional

Production: Manual Craftsmanship - Hand Hammering, Hand Lathing, Proprietary Methods

Applications: Soft to very loud > Live and Recording - Modern Electronic Genres and any application that requires a fresh and unusual approach

Users: Working Musicians, Enthusiasts, Specialists - Drummers and percussionists who love to experiment

Sound: Includes articulate, buzzing, hissing, explosive, crunchy, splashy, metallic, gated, chunky, clangy, shattering, fuzzy, crisp, woody, papery, trashy, compact, and strange sounds

Looks: Extremely varied shapes, surface colors and textures, hammering and lathing patterns - Prominent black silk screening

Recognition: Noise Works cymbals have been critically acclaimed by numerous international drum magazines as exceptionally useful even beyond their intended application and highly stimulating to your creativity

Features

  • Weight: thin splash / medium thin china
  • Volume: soft to medium loud
  • Stick Sound: short, fuzzy
  • Intensity: dry
  • Sustain: short
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