TONY WILLIAMS rides

[Johan VDS]

I re-hammered a number of Zildjian, Paiste and Ufip ride cymbals to get the tonality of the legendary ride cymbal Tony Williams used during his Miles Davis years, which was a 22" old K. A very exceptionally sounding old K actually.

A typical feature of this famous cymbal is that it can produce different pitches and seemingly independent tones.
When Tony just plays a ride pattern, the "ping" sounds fairly clean and bright. But when he "shanks" the bow of the cymbal with the shoulder of the stick or crashes the edge, the wash is of a much lower pitch and is of an almost oriental nature. One would not expect these two very separate tones to be coming from the same cymbal.

If you're interested you can check out soundclips and pictures of the cymbals I re-hammered to approach Tony's ride. Most of them are 22" because Tony's ride was that size, but I also tried to capture that sound into smaller cymbals (21" and 20").

They're on my webspace in this map:
http://users.telenet.be/cymbzdrumz/1_RE ... d_related/