There's something about that kicking snare sound that all kinds of people find meaning in.

Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" paid tribute to the drums of the funk era, where the loop consisted of various snare sounds.

His main snare is memorable for its distinctive "toonk" sound, reminiscent of Alex Van Halen's snare sound.

To fully isolate the snare drum signal the release rate has to be quite fast which can cause the tail end of the snare sound to be 'chopped off'.

So he got a Yamaha RX5 for the snare sound (the kick was quite tight too) and wrote the album with that.

He sometimes used a Gretsch 42-strand snare wires to fatten the snare sound.

Compared to most of his 1980s contemporaries, Copeland's snare sound was very bright and cutting.

That was my thing, 'cause the dashboard we had had such a cool snare sound.'

Notice the clean, true snare sound that Max gets on his highest pitched drum.

The albums' drum programming started with doing the snare sound, then a kick sound, and a bit of "high-end ssshhhhhh".