Sabian SBR 18" Crash Ride

Group: Rides
Type: Crash Ride
Size: 18 Inch
Series: SBR
Weight: ?g
Median Weight: ?g (n=0)
Years of production: 2010 - Present
Sound file: SBR 10" Splash, 14" Hats, 16" Crash, 18" Crash Ride, 20" Ride
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Review: "Sabian has cleverly extracted the maximum sustain from what is normally unresponsive brass. Even expensive bronze 16"s sometimes offer little in the way of projection and we were expecting the 16" to suffer, being the smaller crash. But rather than returning a feeble, brittle 'ching', it yielded a proper crash-like whoosh with a modestly rich timbre.

The decay is still fairly rapid, what you'd call a fast crash, but it actually sustained better than the 18", which is a designated crash-ride. The latter description is apt since the wash is brief and clears the path for your continuous ride patterns.

As with the 20" ride, the 18" stick response, while clean, has that peculiar ability of brass cymbals to be both high-pitched and yet rather soft. And that mellow quality transfers to the bell which was less lively than on the 20", a little too spongy to cut through convincingly."

Review written by Geoff Nicholls ("Sabian SBr Cymbals review - Impressive new entry-level brass range", musicradar.com, May 18, 2010) (retrieved February 8, 2025)

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