“The 13” CAKE beech shell snaredrum: One of the most versatile and unique drums around. Thank you, Marcus!"
George Receli (Drummer for Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, James Brown etc.)

CAKE “B.Q.E.-Series”Beechwood Snaredrums
- 13“ x 6,5”
- 4-ply all Beech Shell
- Off Set Lug-Design
- 2 Snare Release Options, Piston or regular snare strainer
- Triple flanged 1.6 mm Steel Hoops
- REMO Ambassador coated white on top,
REMO Diplomat Snareside on bottom
- 45 degree bearing edges
- Deep, “Vintage-Style” snare bed
- Environmently-friendly water based stain & laquer finish
$299.00 with regular snare strainer
$329.00 with Piston snare strainer (des. by Greg Nickel) A good snare drum should make you feel excited. You should say things about it like “it sounds awesome”, and you should just love the sound of it. Without any conditions. The term “good sound” may be always personal since sound preferences vary from person to person, from music to music, and from room to room. But there truly are sound characteristics, such as frequencies, attack, decay etc you are able to determine when listening to a drum, and to alter when building a drum. The point is, when you hit a drum you never met in your life before, and you are thinking about buying it, the drum should speak to you somehow.
A good snaredrum should be also very easy to tune. It should still sound good with old heads on it, with crappy, bent snares underneath and a much too tight snare tension. All things which make a drum sound bad. But anyway, a good snaredrum still performs well even in the harshest conditions.
Then: A good snaredrum should record very well. This means it should have a broad tuning range, a great sensitivity, it has a wide dynamic range, and a great snare response. In addition, you can tune it very quick to different tunings without getting too uptight about the “perfect” and “officially right” tuning method. Even a cheap beginner snaredrum has its “sweet spot”, but it takes a lot oftime to discover it and to tune the drum to that point. A good drum has various sweet spots and they are quick and easy to find/tune. A good snare drum should make YOU sound good sound, not the other way around.
Does all this make sense? Feel free to email us at nycdrums@aol.com with your take!

The following fabolous drummers also play CAKE snaredrums:

Pat Fitzgerald (Martin’s Foley)
Sam Fogarino (Interpol)
Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, Studio)
Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth, Studio)
Levon Helm (The Band)
Artie Smith (Drum Tech)
Bertram Engel (Robert Palmer, Jimmy Barnes)
Ruediger Tiedemann (Germany)

CAKE snaredrums are available at the following fine drum shops:
Washinton Music (Wheaton, MD), Drum Center Cologne (Germany),
Troyan Drums Munich (Germany), MTC-Drums (Brooklyn, NY)

“ We own a CAKE snaredrum and we are using it for recordings 90% of the time. It records real well.“
Mike Caiate
Engineer COYOTE Studios, Bklyn NY

“The 13” CAKE snaredum is our number one recording snaredrum here in the studio. We use it all the time, I love the sound of it.“
Don Long
Engineer Headgear Studios, Bklyn, NY