Best Examples Of Cymbal Decays On A Recording

Nice ride cymbal taps on the intro to I.G.Y., from Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly and throughout Negative Girl from Steely Dan's Two Against Nature.

DMP does DSD, track 3, 4...

The double-stick technique on the long ride of Boston's Foreplay (Sib Hashian) cut ... a rare sonic texture; simple and rich.

Neil Peart's jazzy crescendo of layered cymbals near the end of La Villa Strangioto is sublime ... the skillful master of veiling complexity and nuance.  Miss his energy

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section ... too numerous to mention.  Great question OP ... sorry I strayed a bit 

Tord Gustavson's Karmosin from Being There. The first 30 seconds is the ultimate in soundstaging and percussion delay.

The song "Workin' Man" from the Stanley Clarke album "If This Bass Could Only Talk". Gerry Brown plays multiple cymbal strikes on each of the cymbals in his kit as part of the intro to the song. You can hear the location and decay of each as he moves around the kit.