Best Examples Of Cymbal Decays On A Recording

@bdp24 -

    During the playback of a track (whether in recording or mixing), the engineer will run his tape, A/B-ing the sound with that of a current best-selling song. He then manipulates the sound of his recording with a number of pieces of outboard gear (and of course his mixing board), all in his attempt to make the recording sound as much like a current hot song or album as possible. No references to the sound of live music at all, purely subjective.  

       I have not doubt: there are those following such a practice.      Happily: none I've ever met.

                                                Certainly: not my method!

I totally agree with rbstehno I have found my nirvana with A custom Speaker System using  a heil AMT with a very fast 4” driver (best possible  crossover)  coupled with a pair of open  baffle subs power by a powerful class d amp across the board from symbols to base it is just pristine and involving
 

World class SET of course

Drum solo on Nardis from Patricia Barber Cafe Blue. 

Louie Bellson and his Jazz Orchestra "East Side Suite". Lots of well recorded cymbals. Love seeing T-bone Burnett and Bruce Cockburn both mentioned here. Two of my favorites. I have the copy of Truth Decay from Takoma records and have always loved "Driving Wheel".