I use Puresound Custom 20 strand on ALL my Supra's. Depending on the genre of music you play the 30 strand on a 6.5 X14 Supra is awesome. IMO if you want vintage type wires Canopus makes some good ones

Thanks, redneck. I'm assuming the Puresound 20-strand (or 16-strand?) would give me a sound closer to the original 18-strand Ludwigs, and the Super 30's would probably be more akin to the Bonzo/42-strand thing.

Which Canopus do you think would be closer to the Ludwigs - the Chrome or the Dry model?

thanks again,

JohnB

Thanks. I'm looking at the Puresound site and under "Custom" I don't see any reference to steel, brass, etc. I'm assuming that all Custom's use steel wires, and their brass wires are now called "Custom Pro". Is this correct?

I put Ludwig heavy 12 strand on my super 400.

http://www.steveweissmusic.com/product/1106428/snare-drum-snares

http://www.brookmays.com/department.asp?prodcode=nga7&brand=LUD

Thanks for the clarification. Now I see: under Custom Pro you have to use the little pull-down menu to see the steel models. Bad Web page design.

mfry55: I would be concerned that the Ludwig 12-strand heavy's might give me too much "drum" and not enough "snare". I think the COB Supra's came with 12-strand wires. Is yours a COB or Ludalloy?

thanks,

JohnB

It's COB. Sounds good, plenty of "snare" You can also get the Ludwig 20 strand on the links.

42 strand vintage gretch snare wires for the win they simply can not be beat they makes a 402 sing...