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Heavyweight Construction Balances Heat and Character





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As one half of your custom hi-hat set, Paiste's Signature Heavy Hi-hat top has the speed, attack, grit, and expression to take your drumming to bold new heights. This Swiss-made hi-hat top is sculpted from Paiste's guarded Signature Bronze blend to give you that distinctive Paiste character and plenty of mix-piercing output. Paiste Signature Heavy Hi-hats are glassy and balanced, with a forward timekeep, a defined foot, and a wash that remains pure even at excessive volumes. But that's not to say this cymbal isn't cut out for the studio. Like all Paiste Signature series cymbals, the Signature Heavy Hi-hat top gives you a clean mix of partials and fundamentals across the audible spectrum, with a musical dynamic range that's able to hang with any cymbal set on your kit. Searching for Signature series character with a little extra aggression? You'll find it in the Paiste Signature Heavy Hi-hat top.





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Handcrafted in Switzerland





Like all cymbals bearing the Paiste Signature script, the 14-inch Signature Heavy Hi-hat top is handcrafted in Switzerland from Paiste’s proprietary Signature Bronze alloy. Signature cymbals sound full and bright with a strong presence and projection. They have a crisp, focused character and articulately respond to stick attacks. Above all, Paiste Signature series cymbals are eminently musical, and they’re made to complement the most demanding stage and studio applications.





Perfectly consistent from cymbal to cymbal





Just as the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has the official kilogram under lock and key, Paiste has a master of every Signature series cymbal ? every crash, ride, hi-hat, splash, and china ? against which to compare all like cymbals. This means the cymbals you hear during an official Paiste demo ? and the ones you buy from Sweetwater ? are carefully tuned to sound as similar as possible.





Paiste Signature Heavy 14-inch Hi-hat Top Features:


Top cymbal only


Heavyweight construction balances heat and character


Voiced for stage and studio


Bright, glassy, clean, and cutting


Gives you a forward timekeep, a defined foot, and a mix-piercing wash, as a set


Swiss-made from Paiste’s Signature Bronze alloy


Handcrafted using traditional methods