 Supernatural Cymbals is one of several small companies that have emerged during the past few years, who are based in Turkey, and who still make cymbals the way they have been made for centuries (except for the electric motor that turns the lathing machine). The cymbals start out as cast bronze discs, which are heated, rolled, cut into the desired diameter for the cymbal, hand hammered, and hand lathed. There is no machining at all. The results are quite distinguishable from machine hammered and lathed cymbals. It is not that one way is better than the other, but rather, you now have several additional choices in sound, and some of them are due to the old world ways of producing them. Here, we review the Supernatural 22" Universal Ride.
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Carlos Skinfill is a drummer's drummer. An articulate and sensing player needs a set of cymbals that will allow full expression of ideas while providing a blending sonorous tone. Carlos captures that with deft brushwork, attention to detail and a very organic technique that surely will antique itself into the muscial equivalent of a well-worn pair of zapatas; Always comfortable and ready to set forth!