Zildjian Scimitar 18" Crash Ride

Group: Rides
Type: Crash Ride
Size: 18 Inch
Series: Scimitar
Weight: 1573g, 1698g
Years of production: 1986 - 1997
Sound File: Scimitar 18" Crash Ride
Scimitar 18" Crash Ride
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Review: "The 18" Crash Ride is also not a bad crash cymbal. Absolutely hopeless as a Ride of course, but then that's almost always the case with Crash Ride cymbals costing three times as much. The crash sound shares many features with the 16" but because there has been some attempt to pass it off as a Ride the cymbal is thicker and it's voice is consequently fuller and more rounded. The sustain is also longer but that didn't present a problem with either of the crashes, there isn't really enough sound produced for the sustain to be intrusive.

I suppose you could use the 18" as a Ride but in all honesty it just doesn't work in that capacity — the cymbal is far too light and ride beats get completely lost in a wash of overtones.

Not a failure then by any means, more a cymbal that definitely has a function, but unfortunately only fulfills one half of its promise. Even so, as I said before that is a common critique of Crash Rides in general and at £45... who cares, basically?"

Review written by Simon Braund ("Zildjian Scimitar Cymbals", Phaze 1, July 1989)

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