MATT HERRON: Matt Herron. I’m with The Fervor.

The snare is a Ludwig Superphonic that was a gift that I picked out, that somebody else bought for me, which was a really good deal, and this one I have several friends who use Ludwig snare drums, and it’s kind of we’re all big John Bonham fanatics so naturally we gravitate toward the Ludwig.

This one has got pretty much all the punch that I was looking for. I played a Superphonic before I bought this one on our album and just fell in love with it. It’s got a lot of depth but it’s got a lot of crack and it sounds really good when you play rimshots, and it’s got a really good live sound. Especially in situations where it’s mic’ed, you can’t ever not hear this drum live. Recording, if I want to -- I’m a pretty hard hitter but in the event that I want to play light, it still responds, it still gets picked up. It cuts through in the mix, so I’m a pretty big fan of it.

I’ll probably have this drum forever. If I get another one, it’llprobably be a variation of this one.

This is a 14 x 6. Is it a 6? Let me see it right there. Yeah. It’s a 14”, so I played a 13” factory Pearl drum for a long time and I wasn’t too happy with it, and like I said just I like listening to a lot of the old Led Zeppelin drum tracks on songs like “Fool in the Rain” and stuff like that, and so I wanted to get a Ludwig and take it out for a ride, and so it’s been good to me ever since.