Bringing twenty years of experience as a luthier, and more than ten years of focus on cymbal-smithing, Ray Byrne has made close to a thousand cymbals and has gained the tactile knowledge earned through experimenting, learning, and iterating in the development of cymbal craft.

That kind of time around cymbals and developing sound profiles led to the question beyond what tooling, construction methodology, annealing, profile, and patina can do to craft a cymbal; but what does vibration itself do to a cymbal over an extended period of time? Not just opening up a new cymbal or letting a newly crafted cymbal rest, but the effect of cumulative hundreds of hours of resonating. It was through that research that Ray learned that there was in fact a well established science of Vibratory Stress Relief within metallurgy. Quite literally, vibratory annealing which is used in industrial applications where temperature annealing is not possible. VSR is the basis of why cymbal smithing professionals, top orchestral professionals, and top drummers all observe the same phenomenon of cymbals settling into maturity over time.

Now there is a tool for you to help move along the maturity process that otherwise may take decades of accumulated vibration.

Cymbal Vivo is that tool.

Accelerated cymbal maturation is now at your fingertips.