Man, thanks for posting this. So much insight into managing a hum. Having your channel really provides a repository of information about these magical and elusive hunks of metal. I watch your channel like some people watch football.❤😂

This is thoroughly fascinating.

Dude, you are KILLING IT with these videos!! Any drummer not watching yet, will be. In 2yrs time you will be one of the top channels for drummers, cymbal enthusiasts, and anyone else interested in percussion. Great job, wow!!!👍

Utterly amazing how the overall sound of the cymbal was improved!!

Tim, you truly know the ins and outs of cymbals. You know your stuff!

From a beast to a beauty! You totally saved that cymbal and I couldn’t be more impressed.

You really did fix that hum! I'm impressed, another great job, Timothy. Thank you, look forward to your next post.

WTH!!!.....and with NO cutting or lathing. You pretty much eliminated the honnng honnng!, and left it with beautiful clear tone and definition!. So it's really "massaging and compressing" the metal. THIS, is craft! 😉👍

This is pure wizardry my friend... The "hum" literally disappeared like it was never even there... Bravo.

What an excellent channel I stumbled upon!

I've made some comments in the past about your mods of Spizz and old K's, but this is really good. Excellent job, and very informative. Thank you..

Great mod! I’m definitely sending you some ailing cymbals. I have an amazing old 22 that sounds great live but I can’t bring it into the studio because the hum drives the engineers crazy. Yet all I get is compliments when people hear it live.

Some of the best content of the whole internet. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

Unbelievably - I had a look at a new-ish Meinl Sand Ride that I got in the cheap a while ago - always felt that this cymbal sounded weird in a bad way (explaining the low price point). After watching this video I played it & looked at it and SURE ENOUGH… there is a dip adjacent to the bell!! I put a moongel on it in various places and was able to change the sound drastically as a function of its placement relative to the dip zone. So - wow - I am super impressed with your deep knowledge…

To my ear, that's an excellent mod! Well done! And thank you for your explanations. 😃

Very teachable❤❤

Hard to believe it could change the sound of the cymbal to that degree.

I am amazed how a quality cymbal sounds in note, no matter what chord/note is played. I was told a long time ago that, it was due to a phenomenon called "sympathetic overtones". What have you been told ? 🤔

That was good.

100% improvement

before and after, wow!

I picked up a Zildjian Z Power Ride cheaply of late and found out that it had a serious howling overtone that would sing well beyond the fundamental and persist beyond any other tone. Until considering the notion of doing anything permanent about it, I was able to locate the area of the cymbal that was responsible and applied a couple of padded 1/8" thick 3/8" circumference rare earth magnets the completely knocked out the racket. I basically dampened areas of the cymbal with my fingers to see what sections made what part of the tone and went from there. Nothing fancy, just hardware store items and some felt. Not a fix, but certainly some stitching to hold things together until the cymbal can be properly healed. After watching your video, I'll spend some time trying to figure out exactly what is going on, whether a profile/deformation issue or something beyond my capabilities to quantify.

It's a bummer that the pitch has to go up, but at least the hum is gone. I mentioned in another video of yours that I have an old K that has a hum (more like a howl). I assume the problem area is the somewhat misshapen bell, but I'm not a cymbal smith. I just put some gaff tape on the underside of the bell and on the transition. The hum is still audible to me, but it's not as obvious as it was before. I have three other cymbals that all have what I would consider a slight bit of hum (perhaps I'm being too picky with a couple of them) - an Istanbul Agop hi-hat top cymbal, a Zildjian splash, and believe it or not, a Craig Lauritsen custom crash/ride cymbal. I don't worry about them too much - the hi-hat hum is only audible when I hit the cymbal by itself, the splash hum is pretty quiet, and the CL hum is low-pitched and only comes out when crashed a certain way - but just knowing they're there is a bit annoying nonetheless. If I could stand to be without them for a length of time, I'd send them to you.

just getting into hammering my own cymbals and i have a basic question: due to the shape of the cymbal, it seems much easier to hammer the underside with a solid hit on the anvil compared to the top side, where the bow of the cymbal makes it tricky to get the cymbal firmly on the anvil. Any advice for getting a solid hit every time?

Crs and cympad helps some

I have a first gen Dry Complex thin that’s just too loud. Could this tone it down?

these vids are great! Q: Would you be able to make 2 very different cymbals and play a demo of each as you make them, then check in on each one after they rest for a day or two, then a week, then a month, then 3 mos, then every 3-6-12 months thereafter? Would be interesting to see how each cymbal changes over time, as well as if they change consistently together, or if the changes diverge from one to the other! Suggestion: Take /make some sort of stiff shape that mimics the present shape of the cymbal and then show the new proposed shaping, and how its impacted. Cymbal shapes are hard to see in vids, and your palm profiles are just ok. Maybe flexible metal or plastic that mimics pipecleaners?

One thing that drives me crazy are the higher whistles tones you get on bright thin cymbals. Does this have the same cause?

What size is the motor you use??

Hum... I have a modern K (Pre Aged Dry Light Ride) It has a hum that is the wrong tone. Just like a 1/2 tone off. It sounds great by it's self!!! But when I play with musicians it sounds bad. I have tried all kinds of tapeing, and even put stuff on it to rattle and cover the hum. it never works...

I want to be a cymbal smith!

That's a pretty thin one, yes?. the crash is very short, which is a good thing 😉👍

Well done

Hi Tim! Thanks so much for the awesome idea and your wonderful workmanship. I have a set of meinl byzance medium (but heavy) Hihat cymbals that somejow little wobbled so they do not fit flat enough but have some visible(2mm) gap so I have to press tje top cymbal down to make tight sound and eventually it sounds too dead because i have to press them down too much..is it possible to fix this problem??