I have an Acrolite that I am having trouble placing a manufacture date to, but it's a pre-battleship with a 222 serial number. It came to me with Rockers heads on it so I'd like to assume they are originals from the era but not original to the drum. Anyway it sounds pretty good, just gave it a nice rehab and changed the heads etc. The snares that came on this are 12-wire. I was having trouble dialing in a good sound after the head replacements (was basically getting a lot of drum with not enough snare, if that makes an sense - like when you make the snares way too tight) so I was considering swapping them out with a set from Puresound. Will I gain anything cool by doing that?
I think a snare "sounding better" with different wires is subjective..What one person hears, another might not like.. I have a '71 Acro, that i'm using at a gig tonight in fact, and i put a set of PDP wires on it, and the snare is crisp and sensitive.. It also depends how loose or tight you tension them.. I like to keep mine, just slightly below tight, but i would say slightly on the looser side.. Hope that helps..
