Vic Firth Rute-X Synthetic - Anyone tried these?

[David]

These look interesting:

 

I have been using the something similar that Stagg make which are great, every much a cross between hot-rods and brushes:

[Sean]

I use the Vic Firth 505 rute which are a nylon brush type thing absolutely awesome piece of kit , now i've seen these i might need to get me a pair of these too!!

[Sean]

These would give you a tighter sound with a shorter attack I would suggest whereas the vic firth 505's  you can role the band up and down the shaft of the white nylon bit to alter the sound you get from them as the nylon bit is longer than this type.

[David]

505s are great. I like the stagg ones because of the long shaft, they almost behave like a stick but softer attack. I expect the Rute-x to be tighter still. Quite expensive though, the staggs I got for about 12quid I think

[David]

I think if I get a bit of hose pipe I can make the Stagg sticks a lot more adjustable 🙂  All I need is some hose, a time machine, some Turkish delight and my axe!

[Sean]

1 hour ago, David said:

I think if I get a bit of hose pipe I can make the Stagg sticks a lot more adjustable 🙂  All I need is some hose, a time machine, some Turkish delight and my axe!

And a small 10mm nylon washer.

[David]

1 hour ago, Sean said:

And a small 10mm nylon washer.

And a flux capacitor 

[Bob]

3 hours ago, David said:

And a flux capacitor 

I run my metronome through a flux capacitor.

[Sean]

I knew I'd seen you before Bob you're that fella from back to the future with the car!!!