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22" ROCKETT
I approached the Rockett Ride with a big stick. Neither the 20" nor the 22" is a light and jazzy cymbal. And the notion of “crash/ride” is also tossed right out the window. When my 5B struck the shoulder of the 22", crash-style, the cymbal yielded nary an inch. The sound that came out was not a crash, but more of an industrial accident in the far distance.
But when I laid the wooden acorn tip of the stick into the cymbal face, I heard a big, round, low-pitched and mellow ping wrapped in a sort of aural titanium. Big enough and bright enough to cut through guitars, the 22" isn’t harsh or shrill. It’s an anvil-like tone, yes, but a really polished tone, like a soft metal covered in a thin layer of a harder metal. Under the ping, the body of the cymbal wavers and groans with a mid-range growl full of interesting harmonics. It’s not a cold ping, but a warm ping.
Playing the outer edge of the face, where the cymbal is raw and unlathed, gives you a mellower tone and much more of the underlying wash. But I don’t believe the cymbal is designed to be a ‘dual-surface’ instrument, because the two sounds are not each a distinctly good ride. Only the lathed part gives good ping.
The bell of the 22" Rockett Ride is excellent. It’s loud, surely owing to its large size. But the pitch is medium high, not low like some ‘mega-bell’ cymbals I’ve seen these last few years. This is no ship’s bell, just a classic or vintage rock bell sound turned way up. If you like to play along to classic rock hits from the ’70s and ’80s, this bell will be right at home.
