Zildjian's Pitch Black series is the latest addition to their sheet bronze collection. Falling above the recently released ZHT series, Pitch Black is made of B-12 alloy and designed to be played loud. From Zildjian's website: The formidable sound and look of Rock at its absolute best. Pitch Black™ cymbals were specifically designed to be coated and played loud... We then developed a proprietary coating process which allows the cymbal to be durable and strikingly beautiful yet still ...

We uncover the tangled history between the world's two largest cymbal makers: Zildjian and Sabian, complete with an interview with Andy Ziljdian! The double stroke roll is the rudiment of the week, Manu Katché is the drummer of the week, and we talk about Roland's new gear in the news. Oh, and Carter is ENGAGED!! Show Notes

Proving that the Memphis Drum Shop is a top notch and high caliber establishment, a couple of the drumming community's up and coming players dropped by recently and showcased some of their talent. Ronald Bruner Jr. (Stanley Clark) and Jason McGerr (Death Cab For Cutie) both sat down at the kit in MDS's cymbal vault (which houses the largest Zildjian collection in the world outside of the Zildjian factory itself) and gave viewers a tiny ...

Dave Weckl, noted studio drummer and clinic extraordinaire, is offering himself as drummer/producer/engineer on his website. He has a complete Pro Tools HD3 rig, mic'd up kit, and iso room in his garage! Personally, I'm frothing with jealousy. It's one of my dreams to have a working home studio. Looks like I should take some notes! Check out the video and photos on his site. Pretty sweet! Source: DaveWeckl.com Heard any good garage bands recently? If they ...

In their never-ceasing effort to build up their drumstick line, Zildjian has announced three new artist series sticks: Ronald Bruner Jr (Stanley Clarke), John Blackwell (Justin Timberlake), and Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers). These three names will undoubtably boost Zildjian's street cred for their sticks, not that they needed it. What I think it interesting is the fact that Bruner, who endorses Sabian, uses Zildjian drumsticks. Just seems like an interesting wrinkle in the situation. I ...

Interesting story on Zildjian.com about this year's Grammy's. They list all the acts that were nominated whose drummers play Zildjian cymbals. Pretty big list. It's interesting to see how many bands have drummers that use Zildjian. A couple years ago, I saw a story about how most of the Grammy winners have drummers who use Paiste. I wonder if the overall trend is going back to Zildjian or if it's just a coincidence. Your thoughts? One ...

Looks like ZIldjian has expanded their new A Custom Rezo line at NAMM this year with seven new models. I personally haven't tried these out, but I'm very interested to hear how the blended lathing sounds. Source: Harmony-Central.net The Avedis Zildjian Company, the world's leading cymbal manufacturer has reacted quickly to the success of the recently introduced A Custom Rezo Crash cymbals, by introducing seven additional new models within the A Custom Rezo series. These new cymbals ...

Source: Rhythm Magazine Drum sensation Dave Weckl will be conducting a short UK clinic tour in November to promote the arrival of Yamaha's brand new PHX - Phoenix kit, billed by Yamaha as 'the ultimate drum kit'. Yamaha claims it's their best sounding kit ever and at over £5000 it's also the most expensive and the result of over five years of extensive research at Yamaha's drum laboratory in Japan. Dave Weckl, together with a leading group ...

JABB here with the review of the third part of the Dave Weckl: A Natural Evolution series of videos. Dave Weckl's last offering to the drumming populace is all about getting your sound out of the drums. It's also probably the most valuable DVD in the series because he gets pretty in-depth into mics and EQ, a subjects most drummers (myself included) are pretty ignorant about. This isn't a video about your touch on the instrument, ...

This is JABB bringing you part two of the Dave Weckl trilogy in three...two...one... engaged! The second part of Dave's video series focuses on the practice routines that Dave Weckl follows to stay at the top of his game. If you've seen any of the Thomas Lang DVDs then you have a very good frame of reference to visualize this DVD. When I ordered this video on netflix I visualized it being more about Dave giving some ...