Whether you're craving a matching snare for your Performance Series shell pack or a quality maple snare at an unassuming price, you can't go wrong with the DW Performance Series snare from Sweetwater. Its 10-ply HVX maple shell is crisp, sensitive, and cutting, capable of delivering powerful backbeats to your audience or into a microphone. Triple-flanged steel hoops pack a hearty rimshot and a deep pocket. Unique to the Performance Series are DW's low-profile Quarter Turret lugs and a range of specialty wrap, lacquer, and satin finishes.

DW Performance Series Snare Drum Features:

Matching snare drum for your DW Performance Series kit

A quality snare at an unassuming price

Handcrafted and finished in Oxnard, California

Quarter Turret lugs are sleek and recognizable

10-ply HVX maple shell is crisp, sensitive, and cutting

Heat forming/Cool Tempering maximizes shell strength, roundness, and resonance

60° bearing edges favored by John Good

Triple-flanged steel hoops deliver a fat, open attack

MAG magnetic throw off locks snares in the "on" position

Fine-threaded True-Pitch tension rods enhance tuning accuracy

DW's Tuning Sequence batter head with control dot streamlines 

Tech Specs

Type: Snare

Drum Depth: 6.5"

Drum Diameter: 14"

Shell Material: North American Maple HVX

Shell Construction: 10-ply

Hoops: 3.0mm Triple-flanged

Lugs: 10 x Quarter Turret Lugs

Color: Black Diamond

Finish: FinishPy

Heads: DW by Remo USA

Manufacturer Part Number: DRPF6514SSBD