Avenir Cymbals

Avenir Cymbals — The Future Is Now

Avenir Cymbals. The Future Is Now.

Avenir Cymbals are designed by drummers, for drummers who are looking for modern sounds, creative options, and musical performance at an attainable budget. From traditional cymbal voices to dark, dry textures, bright modern shimmer, low-volume practice cymbals, and contemporary effects, Avenir gives today’s players more ways to build a cymbal setup around the music they actually play.

The Avenir lineup spans a wide range of sounds and constructions. Amber cymbals combine raw, brilliant, and lathed surfaces for a rich, dark, versatile character, while Earth cymbals pair a fully raw top with a lathed underside for low-pitched, aggressive tones, quick attack, and fast decay. Expression cymbals use a raw bell, fully lathed surfaces, and a low-tension design for a full, punchy voice that responds easily across different dynamics.

Players who prefer brighter cymbal sounds can explore the Modern series, which blends a brilliant bell and inner bow with a natural-finish outer section for controlled shimmer, projection, and a mix of crystalline 1990s influence and contemporary complexity. Vantage reverses that visual approach with a natural bell and inner bow and brilliant outer section, delivering a bright, controlled sound designed for definition in rehearsals, recording sessions, and live band mixes.

Avenir's professional cymbal range also includes Sentry, featuring alternating lathed and unlathed rings for controlled wash and defined stick attack, and Shadow, with a semi-raw burnished surface, dark wash, strong definition, and fast decay that works especially well for jazz and lighter playing. Spectrum cymbals are fully lathed and hand-hammered for a rich, powerful, versatile sound capable of moving from expressive jazz playing to hard rock and other high-volume applications.

For developing players, Emerge brass alloy cymbals provide a budget-friendly way to outfit a drum kit, with slightly heavier construction for added projection and cut in louder practice and rehearsal environments. For quieter playing, LoVo low-volume cymbals use vented alloy construction and are designed to operate at 70–80% lower volume than traditional cymbals while retaining an authentic metal cymbal response.

Avenir also gives drummers options beyond conventional crashes, rides, and hi-hats. Lion China cymbals are handmade from B20 bronze using traditional techniques to produce dark, explosive, trashy China cymbal tones. WackStack three-cymbal stacks are available in brass, raw B20, and silver alloy versions, producing a fast, tight, pseudo-electronic clap sound for accents, breakdowns, creative percussion setups, and sample-like effects.

Whether you're building your first drum kit, adding a new crash or ride, searching for darker studio cymbals, expanding your effects palette, or putting together a complete professional cymbal setup, Avenir offers distinct voices for different players, genres, and playing environments. Many Avenir professional series also include a 2-year or 2-year limited warranty, depending on the series.

Modern sounds. More possibilities. An attainable way to find your voice behind the kit.

Avenir Cymbals — The Future Is Now.