Supernaturals Divine 18" Crash

Group: Crashes
Type: Crash
Size: 18 Inch
Series: Divine
Weight: 1466g
Years of production: ?
Sound file: Divine 18" Crash (download)
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Review: "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. This review covers the Supernatural 18″ Divine Crash. It has a very fast response, and somewhat higher pitch than the Supernatural Universal Crash Cymbal we reviewed a few weeks ago. It is not suited for riding the body of the cymbal, but the bell rides well.

The close-up photo, shown below, illustrates the unique lathing pattern. The bell and two rings close to the bell are unlathed, and the rest of the cymbal has fine, closely spaced lathing lines. Hammering is deep, with small round hammer marks.

Review written by John E. Johnson, Jr. ("Supernatural 18″ Divine Crash Cymbal", hometheaterhifi.com, July 13, 2011)

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