Anton Fig Signature Snare Drum....PHAAAAAAT! 

I love this drum... i had one and sold it, and regret it now since they are no longer made. finding a used one is difficult and you do pay, but i am about ready to pull the trigger. of all the snares i have owned this is my favorite

90’s and 00’s are the two golden decades of Yamaha signature snares.

Love the Anton Fig drum! I’ll never let it go

Absolutely 💯 - GREAT EVERYTHING BRUH 🥁

Been looping for one in canada, hard to find. Wood sounding snare, perfection

these are crazy nice

I got the Gibraltar wood hoops (80?) And put them on a cherry/bubinga 7x14 pork pie. Nice difference from the flanged and die cast. Good presentation

Yes, excellent. I've had mine for almost 20 years and it pairs so richly with my little Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute kit. I usually go for med - high tuning and can't get enough of those woody cracks on the accents and the amount of body that still comes through on ghost notes. Yes my batter side hoop has the slightest little section of the outside ply splintering off right at one of the tension rod holes, a bit worried about that. The other issue is I've in the past year broken about 3 of the swivel nuts inside the lug casings (basically the hex end that keeps the whole nut from spinning with the tension rod breaks off). I ordered a bunch of generic Yamaha swivel nuts to replace them, but lo and behold the replacements have slightly smaller hex ends so they too can spin in place. I actually reached out to Anton himself if he had any ideas since even the Yamaha US parts website is a neglected mess. In the meantime I jammed little metal tab shaped pieces from hanging brackets to hold the smaller nuts in place. Just desparate to do what I can to keep this drum useable!

I feel your pain I broke a wood hoop (in the place) and still have not replaced it. They are not reliable, but sound great! I use the bottom hoop occasionally on top if I need that sound! But mostly it's die cast hoops!

My school has one

I have two wood hoop snare drums ,One from PDP and another retrofit Yamaha sensitive series. Paid US $30 bucks for the yammie hoops used a few years ago. My guess is that today using a Au dollar it would be more than the cost of a new snare. Their aluminum die cast are just outrageous these days.

I’ve been using it as a deep snare as well! It sounds sublime!

Great demo there my friend! Anton played here in Thunder Bay not long ago with Joe Bonamassa - great show! Our buddy Ronn Dunnett (w/Gibralter) has a wood/ metal hybrid hoop offering which may be a favourable alternative for some.

I feel ya- I had the same thing happen to me with the Steve Jordan Signature snare drum. And I'm NOT a yamaha endorser!

David Letterman had Soul Asylum as the musical guest on his show with their then drummer, Sterling Campbell, on the drums. Sterling was using an Ayotte kit for the gig and Anton loved his snare sound. Sterling's Ayotte kit was made with wood hoops. Anton had complimented Sterling on his snare sound. Sterling had his Ayotte rep send Anton a snare. Anton wanted to hear what it what it would sound like with his Yamaha kit on the show. Anton was hoping that his Yamaha rep wouldn't see the drum thinking it wouldn't be visible in any of the camera views. To Anton's embarrassment, a Yamaha Anton Fig Yamaha signature snare showed up on his doorstep! I think this was the gig: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ei5j-DvqDtI.html

did u add any muffling ? that low tuning sounds awesome

3:50 thanks

These guys see you coming

Definitely one of my favourite drums I’ve ever played, shame about the hoops though.

What are those hi-hats?

I have the anton snare its awsome! I use it as a aux snare still mint i try to avoid rim shots def one of the best snares too bad they dont make wood hoops anymore

Is there a huge difference between this one and the elvin jones signature? Thanks

Wow ... what a phat sounding snare. Even tuned up high it still sounds big. Great snare. Any thoughts on the relatively new UV1 drum heads for use on the snare. I know that you prefer the G1 on the snare batter side ... as do I, with a little muffling.

phat indeed!

What camera 🎥 are you using?

Test out the Yamaha live custom snare pleaseeeeee

Just suggest your can show like bearing edge ,throw off , snare wire those parts zoom in detail and almost every video test snare sound the revreb too more , like you use room mic to record not close mic by the way you show in some rare snare on the internet is hard to find information Good job!