Newcastle Drum Centre

The secrets in creating sounds are life-long experience, a deep knowledge about sound and sounding alloys, painstaking craftsmenship, and intensive experimentation. Paiste never get accidental results. They meticulously research and thoroughly execute their creations. Paiste guarantee consistency in sound qualities and sound color in every cymbal, percussive sound and gong on offer. Through these virtues they can offer a full range of unique and specific sounds, which respond to the musician's personal wishes. Paiste go on providing you with ever-new sound dimensions. The cymbals give you new possibilities to expand your sound spectrum and to creatively develop your individual musical expression. This helps you realize your musical dreams.

Paiste cymbals come in a wide range of models but their prices are worked out by size only. For a full price list, click on the 'Full listing' buttons featured on this page.

With the Series "101 Brass" and "201 Bronze" Paiste creates a segment that is characterized by the parameters "brand image" and "affordability" - Paiste continues to place great value on sound, quality and looks in this segment in order to justify the trust placed in the Paiste name.

For the manufacture of affordable cymbals with ample quality we use modern, hi-tech production techniques in our German production facility. The decisive objective in this effort is the successful transfer of the spirit and essence of our Swiss knowledge about sound to such manufacturing methods.

Alpha Cymbals were first launched by Paiste in 1992. Since then, the Alpha Series has been highly successful on an international scale. Today, the Alpha brand is synonymous with dependability, and the cymbals are well known for their first-class sound and fair prices.

In 1967 Paiste launches Giant Beat cymbals, which are characterized by warmth, strength and brilliance such as drummers had not known before. Suitable for soft to loud settings - Live and Recording - Country, R&B, Rock, Jazz-Rock.

This range is suitable for many styles. Medium to very loud settings - Live and Recording - Country, R&B, Rock, Jazz-Rock, Progressive, Metal, Grunge, and modern hybrid. A very versatile cymbal.

Created as a response to the extreme developments Heavy Metal and Punk which required extreme cutting power and volume - RUDE was re-launched as 3000 RUDE, then 2002 RUDE and returns to its classic RUDE name!

Musical, transparent, beautiful, rich, colorful - full, bright, expressive sound - Model range features everything from particularly delicate, sensitive to expressive, potent and powerful qualities.

The Traditional range re-creates lost cymbal sounds from the Blues, Swing, Big Band, Cool Jazz, Be-Bop and Hard Bop era of the 1930's to the 1960's

Newcastle Drum Centre
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