The search for style
How Meinl worked a classic shimmer, flexibility and warmth into every Pure Alloy Custom cymbal
Think of yourself as a designer. Color schemes, so to speak, mean everything when picking out your cymbal sound. When the right mix of cymbals comes together, it creates a sense of style and appeal.
It can be a uniform cymbal set that ties your kit’s “scheme” together or a mixed selection, but thats not our call to make.
We have an extensive catalog of cymbals, and we’ve been careful to maintain that each one needs to have its own alluring spark, or it doesn’t belong.
When thinking about crafting a classic bronze cymbal with a clear tone that blankets your kit in brilliant luster, we landed on an idea.
Where brightness meets warmth
What does a classic cymbal mean to you? Would it be fully lathed or have visible hammer marks? Pinpoint definition or a smooth, mellow feel?
What if you could check ALL of those boxes?
This is Meinl Pure Alloy Custom.
A timeless voice with clarity, cut and shimmer, these cymbals have an added dose of flexibility, smoothness and warm wash to give you both a classic shine AND modern mellowness.
Medium-thin weight
The reflective smoked bronze finish top and full-on brilliant bottom adds shine and definition. To get a melt-in-your-stick feel along with that clear tone, we use medium-thin weights to produce these cymbals.
The lighter weight provides the cymbals with more give for a slightly softer attack with warmer body and faster decay, while maintaining the shimmering tone that Pure Alloy is known for.