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A while back I bought a second drumset because it was too good of a deal to pass up. It was a standard 5 piece and came with a beautiful sounding zildjian ride, a nice sabian crash, and not so nice no name hats, as well as another cheap crash. I've been using the nice ride and crash, as well as utilizing the extra drums, but I'm looking for some way to change/modify the sound of the crap crash into something I can use (holes, rivets, hanging chains, melting the whole thing and turning it into a decorative lamp, I dunno). At the moment it sounds like it really, really wants to be a china cymbol, but the sound is very muddy, and the tone is not nice at all. Any suggestions?
The hats are also available to be messed with. When I got them they were pretty dinged up, sounded terrible, and were so bent they didn't sit flat on each other. I don't want to throw any sort of cymbol away, so I need to figure out some use for them.
Any ideas on how to change them so they'll still be usefull from a percussion point of view, or in any other sort of way would be greatly apreciated. Thanks

P.S. Someone on another thread mentioned yet another thread on "reusing old cymbals", but as of yet I haven't been able to find it. However if it is indeed out there somewhere, I apologise for taking up unecessary space
P.P.S. Okay, so I found the thread, but I'll leave this one up anyways as any ideas will be more specific to what I have

Edited by DrumKnut (Sat Jul 12 2008 04:52 PM)

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