Sabian 18" HHX Xtreme Crash Cymbal  From Sabian

With HHX, we opened up a brave new world of sound possibility by taking dark, musically rich tone, and making it cut. So no matter what kind of music you play, HHX makes it easy to get your dark mojo working. Are you ready to unleash your dark?

HHX Craftsmanship

Sabian metallurgists combine measured amounts of copper, tin and silver to create centuries-old recipe for Sabian B20 bronze alloy

Molten-hot B20 bronze is very carefully hand-poured into pots, and once cooled, yields already-musical B20 bronze castings

B20 castings are meticulously hand-separated by weight and prepared to remove all impurities

Castings are fed through a large rolling oven up to a dozen times, involving a crew of 5 men who must work with choreographic precision under intense heat

During the entire rolling process, blanks must be rotated carefully to create a molecular weave for strength and durability

As castings become cymbal blanks, custom-built machine tools are expertly hand-operated to press bells into blanks, drill holes in center, cut down to size and bump for approximate shape

A combination of hand-guided machine hammering and hand-hammering is used to shape and form each cymbal, adding musicality, complexity, and bright tone

Lathe craftsmen operate specially retrofitted lathes, thinning cymbal to desired gauge while adding crucial tonal grooves

Cymbal must be trimmed to exact size and the edges buffed for smoothness

Each individual cymbal is hand-tested and hand-weighed in the Vault by Vault sound specialists, a critical process

Each individual cymbal is placed on a shelf to age, allowing the frantically active molecules to slow down and stabilize

Each individual cymbal is once again hand-tested by two Vault specialists to ensure they fit the parameters of the series and model