has anyone ever accidently stepped on one of there cymbals only to find that it has been turned inside out? dude, i did this yesterday with my 16". it is basically ruined. i turned it back the other way by getting 2 friends to help me put weight around the outside. now it has this nasty low end resonance. this sucks!!!!
it was a sabian AA. it sounds like crap now. i dont know how to describe it other than "off balance." (A) is the shape before i stepped on it, and (B) is the shape after i tried to fix it. it did kinda look like a china boy.
Same thing happened to one of my older cymbals and it sounded just the way you described it, so I know exactly what you mean. But I did kinda fix it (and probably could have gotten it better if I wanted to)... I set my cymbal down on a flat surface and saw that there were two edges that were slightly raised up and didn't touch the surface. Then I leaned the cymbal up against the wall of my drum room (which has carpet on it, so I didn't damage the wall) at an angle, with the bell side against the wall and the two parts that were raised off surface pointing up and pointing down (resting on the floor). Then I applied pressure around the bottom edges with my foot, at about the middle between the edge and the bell. Then I flipped that side to the top and put applied pressure to the other raised edge. Then layed it back on the ground to test it, if it wasn't perfectly level (or close enough) then I tried again.
I was surprise how much difference it made, and once I got it pretty flat it sounded a LOT better... But I didn't bother to get it all the way flat again, ('cause it was an older cymbal) so you could probaby get it back to it's original shape and sound if you tried.
thanks dude! i will give that a try tonight when i go home. that makes total sense, cause a shaped edge on a drum needs to be perfect to get the right resonance.
Seriously, that does suck. Kind of an expensive boo boo.
