{"id":1857,"date":"2020-02-02T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:07:50","slug":"music-cutting-a-snare-bed-on-my-mapex-meridian-snare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"DIY\/MUSiC: Cutting a Snare Bed on my Mapex Meridian Snare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Mapex Meridian kit a few years back, with a 24&#8243; bass drum (woah!), for gigs where I needed kick to cut through even if un-amplified. I&#8217;ve hardly ever gigged it, truth be told. In part because the snare had no snare beds, and sounded terrible as a result. It had a kind of sandpapery asthmatic wheeze on every hit; no real definition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1865\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"525\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0773.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0773-1024x767.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1865\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" alt=\"Mapex snare beds\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0773-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0773-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0773-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0773.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a> Marking out and filing down the snare beds.<\/figure>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been meaning to cut snare beds myself, or find someone to do it for me. In the end, as usual, I watched a load of YouTube vids, and did nothing. Until now, that is. I finally sorted it out, and it was a piece of cake. And it&#8217;s totally sorted the snare out.<\/p>\n<p>Pics show the stages, from masking the shell and drawing where the beds go, to filing them down (by hand), and then examining them on a flat slab (marble) with a light inside the drum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1866\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"525\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0774-1024x765.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1866\" width=\"525\" height=\"392\" alt=\"Mapex snare beds\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0774-1024x765.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0774-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0774-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_0774.jpg 1483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a> Checking the beds on a marble slab, with a light.<\/figure>\n<p>Must admit, I&#8217;m dead chuffed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Anyone else ever bought off the shelf drums that don&#8217;t have snare beds but really ought to? I actually got this kit second hand. It seems the previous owner never noticed or was bothered by the issue (they said they&#8217;d had and regularly played it for a couple of years!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Mapex Meridian kit a few years back, with a 24&#8243; bass drum (woah!), for gigs where I needed kick to cut through even if un-amplified. I&#8217;ve hardly ever gigged it, truth be told. In part because the snare had no snare beds, and sounded terrible as a result. It had a kind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIY\/MUSiC: Cutting a Snare Bed on my Mapex Meridian Snare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-tX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}