Re: A lesson on wood!
I have several metal snares and a couple of wood. I like metal- Brass, Steel, Aluminum. I have a Birch snare and a Maple snare. The metal are certainly louder and have a higher/sharper sonic quality and the wood are a little less loud and have a mellower/softer sonic quality.
To get into the specifics of how the different woods create different sounds is almost impossible, almost. Everything about the drum- hardware (flanged hoops vs. die-cast, big lugs vs smaller lugs) wrapped vs lacquer and head choices as well as the room and tuning are going to dramatically have an effect. Even if you have two identical drums with the same heads tuned the same (both wood lets say) they are going to sound ever so slightly different. It is what it is.
Your ear will tell you what sound you will like and your budget will tell you if you can get it.
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