Zyn Dark Knight Series - 10" Mini HiHats 2024 - Dark

ZYN MINI HATS

Trashy, powerful and roaring Hihats perfect as an Auxiliary Hihat for those accents.

ZYN PRESENT DAY

Rubix is in a unique position to raise Zyn cymbals from the forging ashes.

Rubix has spent many years working with many of the top Turkish cymbal manufacturers, investing heavily both financially and time-wise into R&D. The only way you can achieve the sonorous characteristics one is after is by pure experimentation. There is no magic formula or CAD program to produce the perfect cymbal.

Experimenting with Alloy composition is a major part of cymbal design. It is common knowledge that cymbals throughout history have been generally made from a copper-tin alloy, B20 being a popular alloy for many high-end manufacturers. The percentages of the base alloy and the introduction of other trace elements even 0.5 percent can have a significant effect on the sound and fatigue life of the cymbal. Heat and chemical treatments, forging processes, and lathing techniques also fine-tune cymbal performance.

Rubix has experimented with all the above (Too lengthy to go into detail here) and continues to experiment with little alterations in every process to create a cymbal with the perfect tonal palette to suit any genre of music.

INDIVIDUALITY

Due to the handmade nature of the product, even in the same series, it would be almost impossible for two cymbals to sound identical adding to the unique nature of the product. Every batch of cymbals is essentially an evolving prototype to suit the end user.

Rubix puts a lot of emphasis on customer feedback and sees it as a priority. The individual nature of music and musicians with their ideas of how they want an instrument to sound means there are no definitives. If they want a darker or brighter sound we can change the design to cater to this. Different sizes, weights, and other detail changes can all be accommodated and welcomed at no extra cost, as it all improves the diversity of the basic product. It would not be financially viable to design and make an infinite range of cymbals, no manufacturer would do this but Rubix has the flexibility, in essence, to cater to this with its bespoke service.

ZYN PRICING

The very nature of making any handmade product is that it is much more time-consuming than a machine-made product. The days of cheap Labour are now gone so there is an attendant increase in cost, increasing the gulf between handmade and machine-made products. Material costs have also gone up significantly adding further to production costs.

Justifiably, you might ask the question, how is it Rubix can offer a handmade Turkish cymbal at a much lower price than the big manufacturers?

Well, the simple answer to that is handmade cymbals are overpriced.

Big manufacturers put large markups on all their products, I accept they have high running costs but their prices are unacceptably high in our view.