What's good enough for Karen Carpenter, Hal Blaine, Joe Morello, Nate Smith, etc. is good enough for me! :-) Both 5 and 6.5's are great! Thanks, Mike...good playing! Cheers, Mike. **Edit** I think Joe Morello and Hal Blaine might have rocked a Supra COB.
This was the first drum my parents bought for me in 5th grade back in 1988. I didn’t know what I had at the time - I assumed it was a cheap steel student drum. I stopped playing after high school and it sat in my mom’s damp basement for 20 years. I started playing again recently, and when she moved, I cleaned out my old stuff, and lo and behold, there was a Supraphonic! And I had just purchased a used 6.5x14 a few weeks earlier! The hoops and all of the lug casing mounting screws are hopelessly rusted and the chrome is flaked and pitted. I think I’m going to trick it out: grind and buff the chrome a la Alex Van Halen’s deeper Supra, get brass tube lugs and brass plated die-cast hoops and throw-off.
my mom bought me a drum set for high school graduation in the 80s. didnt know much about drums at the time, all my friends had new pearl export or tama superstar drums, new and shiny! i wad a bit embarrassed by my second hand beater kit. but it SOUNDED fantastic. turned out to be a late 60's or early seventies ludwig kit with a 5 1/2 supraphonic! ive ownef a few other kits, some good, some just ok, but i always played the superphonic with them, still using it 34 years later. still have the original kit in my basement, its my practice kit. finally after wanting one for ever i bought a new 6 1/2 supraphonic this year. two classics. great vid mike, i was digging the md podcast with Mike johnston too.
I love this video series! Thanks Mike and please continue sharing your drums with us. I have a 70's vintage of this same drum. My OCD has me wanting to give yours a good polishing! :)
Love the Supraphonic look-see, but I hear audio artifacts whenever you breathe in. Maybe it's a bit-rate issue due to the video encoding? The breaths are high-frequencies, so the kinda liquidy sounding artifacts may also show up in the high-freq drum sounds.
Sounds awesome. Love the red snare holders too like the dunnett style. Def going to look into some of those. One of my favourite snares I got many years back when they came out is a mapex retro sonic walnut. Just wondering your thoughts if you ever reviewed one or remember it and also if you could do a video on one if you come across it. I find it to be such a versatile drum and it has killer crack in that d-d# batter g-g# reso but I’d love to hear your tuning range style applied to that drum. Some how you always find like 20 tunings instead of the usual 3 ha haaa. Thanks bro have a good one and keep em coming.
How about a side by side comparison with a black beauty ano/or the Stewart Copeland signature snare as I think it sounds like a supra?Thanks, enjoyed this video very much!
Do you have a Keplinger, and have you done a video on that snare?? I have a couple of old Leedy's I should send you to do a critique for your channel on.
Would need to be a seamless aluminum shell. Q Drums has one, Dunnett has one. Drumfactorydirect.com has one. Not sure there are too many others. Most are rolled shells.
It’s pronounced Grow-Gain ribbon, as in grow your vocabulary. If you say Gros-Gain the people at the fabric store will know what you mean but will laugh at you when you leave.
Has stood the test of time and suits everything.
I still think it sounds best unmuffled.
Beautiful open sound.
What's good enough for Karen Carpenter, Hal Blaine, Joe Morello, Nate Smith, etc. is good enough for me! :-) Both 5 and 6.5's are great! Thanks, Mike...good playing! Cheers, Mike. **Edit** I think Joe Morello and Hal Blaine might have rocked a Supra COB.
Truth!
The demo at the beginning is a really great sound, very sample like!
Glad you dig it!
This was the first drum my parents bought for me in 5th grade back in 1988. I didn’t know what I had at the time - I assumed it was a cheap steel student drum. I stopped playing after high school and it sat in my mom’s damp basement for 20 years. I started playing again recently, and when she moved, I cleaned out my old stuff, and lo and behold, there was a Supraphonic! And I had just purchased a used 6.5x14 a few weeks earlier! The hoops and all of the lug casing mounting screws are hopelessly rusted and the chrome is flaked and pitted. I think I’m going to trick it out: grind and buff the chrome a la Alex Van Halen’s deeper Supra, get brass tube lugs and brass plated die-cast hoops and throw-off.
my mom bought me a drum set for high school graduation in the 80s. didnt know much about drums at the time, all my friends had new pearl export or tama superstar drums, new and shiny! i wad a bit embarrassed by my second hand beater kit. but it SOUNDED fantastic. turned out to be a late 60's or early seventies ludwig kit with a 5 1/2 supraphonic! ive ownef a few other kits, some good, some just ok, but i always played the superphonic with them, still using it 34 years later. still have the original kit in my basement, its my practice kit. finally after wanting one for ever i bought a new 6 1/2 supraphonic this year. two classics. great vid mike, i was digging the md podcast with Mike johnston too.
Well produced, demonstrated & presented video. An exemplar for YT productions.
Thank you Mike for the video. It demonstrates the Supraphonic's versatility and as to why it's legendary.
thanks! Glad you dig the demo.
very nice indeed.
definitely one of my favorite drums.
I really enjoy this series.... in this case I have the same drum and it's good to hear it in som many tunings... I have not done that ....yet
Thanks! Yeah, I bet you can't make it sound bad. Ha!
Fantastic as always, great information!
Thanks, brother!
Thank you Mike...definitely my next snare purchase..loving my acro but I hear a Supra calling me
You can't go wrong!
Thanks Mike! I have a ‘73 version (5x14) and it’s my main gigging snare for everything.
That's what's up! Can't go wrong...ever.
Awesome! Thanks again Mike!
Best all-around snare drum ever made. The only downside to it is the p85 throw off. I replaced mine with the trick throw off.
I love this video series! Thanks Mike and please continue sharing your drums with us. I have a 70's vintage of this same drum. My OCD has me wanting to give yours a good polishing! :)
Thanks, Brian! My apologies for the dirty shell...I've never cleaned any of my drums. Ha!
Great drum, great drummer! Looking forward to an upcoming "cymbal of the week" series (maybe starting with rides?) . All the best from Chile Mike
I might have to do some cymbal clips soon. Great suggestion!
That's a great idea
Great demo as always Mike. What was the mic set up for this demo? Didn't spot any close mics
Andrew Rooney Drums just overheads and kick.
Love the Supraphonic look-see, but I hear audio artifacts whenever you breathe in. Maybe it's a bit-rate issue due to the video encoding? The breaths are high-frequencies, so the kinda liquidy sounding artifacts may also show up in the high-freq drum sounds.
Tony Palermo good ears! The problem was my lavalier mic was on the fritz so I had to denoise the heck out of it.
Sounds awesome. Love the red snare holders too like the dunnett style. Def going to look into some of those.
One of my favourite snares I got many years back when they came out is a mapex retro sonic walnut. Just wondering your thoughts if you ever reviewed one or remember it and also if you could do a video on one if you come across it. I find it to be such a versatile drum and it has killer crack in that d-d# batter g-g# reso but I’d love to hear your tuning range style applied to that drum. Some how you always find like 20 tunings instead of the usual 3 ha haaa. Thanks bro have a good one and keep em coming.
A favourite of Hal Blaine..
The recording king..
💞
How about a side by side comparison with a black beauty ano/or the Stewart Copeland signature snare as I think it sounds like a supra?Thanks, enjoyed this video very much!
That would be fun! I'd have to track down one of each though... ;)
Do you have a Keplinger, and have you done a video on that snare?? I have a couple of old Leedy's I should send you to do a critique for your channel on.
Great stuff. Thank you! What sort of tension do you have on the bottom head^ Thanks.
The bottom head is always very tight. I aim for the note G.
What would be the closest snare to these, in other brands ?
Would need to be a seamless aluminum shell. Q Drums has one, Dunnett has one. Drumfactorydirect.com has one. Not sure there are too many others. Most are rolled shells.
It’s pronounced Grow-Gain ribbon, as in grow your vocabulary. If you say Gros-Gain the people at the fabric store will know what you mean but will laugh at you when you leave.
touché.