The Rogers 14x6.5 Dyna-Sonic Snare Drum with Beavertail Lugs - Champagne Sparkle (37CS) features a 5-ply Rogers proprietary maple-ply shell with reinforcement hoops, 45-degree bearing edges, 10 Beavertail lugs, 1.6mm triple-flanged hoops, snare gates, Clock-Face strainer, "choke-free" floating snare rail system with 20-strand snare wires, internal tone control, Rogers logo Remo Coated Ambassador batter drumhead, Rogers logo Remo Hazy Ambassador Snare Side drumhead, Champagne Sparkle finish, fruitwood interior stain, chrome hardware, and Rogers Dyna-Sonic and Script Logo badges. Rogers Dyna-Sonic snare drums feature pinpoint definition, choke-free sound, faster stick rebound, full dynamic range, destinct Rogers tone, and hardware designed for simple adjustments while playing.
This is the drum that “couldn’t be built”. This is the drum that solved a problem that “couldn’t be solved”. Before Dyna-Sonic, you tightened the snares, and the snares choked the head. Rogers Dyna-Sonic changes all that. Because your snares ride on an exclusive floating snare frame. They ride with the snare head, never dampen it. There’s no choking and never any unwanted snare "slap".
With a traditional snare drum, choking results from snare wires being pulled up too tight from the strainer knob when trying to dial out snare vibration and dry up or “crisp” up the sound. With the Dyna-Sonic snare frame, the concept is to allow the snare tension to be controlled on the frame itself, while the strainer knob simply brings the frame up to just “kiss” the bottom head. This results is superior sensitivity over the entire head and allows for all snare adjustment, from “dry” to “loose”, to be controlled from the frame itself. Roger’s product designer, Joe Thompson said it best in his Jan 16, 1962 patent application for the Dyna-Sonic snare rail system: “The goal of this invention is to provide a drum with ‘floating snares’, which can be tensioned without putting pressure on the head, on a drum with no snare beds.”
The Dyna-Sonic snare frame is that same exclusive floating snare frame design from 1962. Made of cast steel, the frame comes complete with snare wire mounted. The single tension screw located at the end of the frame, gives one-point uniformed tensioning with simple hand adjustment. Set it, and it remains in the desired position.
