One drum, several distinct sounds.
The Mike Portnoy Signature snare boasts a 5-1/2" x 14" maple shell with die-cast hoops. Special design throw-off sets to 3 positions (off, loose, and tight) to give you 3 distinctly different sounds.
The story of Mike Portnoy's signature snare began in 1997 when Mike came up with the idea of a tension strainer controlled by a foot pedal-very cool, but very complicated and too expensive for all but maybe five people in the world. So Mike and Tama came up with an equally cool (but less complicated and expensive) three-way snare strainer which makes switching tension as easy as switching between two snare drums.
Mike Portnoy's Three-Way Tension Adjustable Strainer can lock into three different positions: off, loose, and tight.
