D'Addario VENN G2 Synthetic Tenor Sax Reeds - Tenor Saxophone Reeds with Advanced Synthetic Reed Construction of Polymer Fibers, Resin, Natural Cane - Strength 2.0

Player of over 30 years. I have played cane nearly all of my time up until the past year. Sure, in the past I experimented with synthetic reeds and found that I wasn’t a huge fan of them because they either sounded too buzzy even for jazz, or they were to tough to control pitch wise requiring way more attention than cane. I decided to give them a shot again and looked at the current generation. I have a small selection of most of the major brands in various strengths on Tenor of this newest round of synthetics by established brands as well as newcomers. When I got around to trying the Venn generation 2 reeds on Tenor, I was floored. They immediately sounded great and they were very easy to control. I had no issues adapting to playing them over the course of an afternoon. I immediately bought a total of 4 in to have a rotation in the strength that worked best for me. They run about a half size or more too strong. For example I might normally be around a 2.5, 2-hard even a 3 or 3 soft on some reed brands, I found a 2.0 in the Venn worked perfectly. I read up on this before I bought and it turned out I was wise to do so. I have now been playing these exclusively for about 6 months, same rotation, no sign of wearing out. I couldn’t be more happy with these.

Surprise @ How Well it Plays & Sounds Good Too, Ease of Playing on a 7*JJ 6Yany & 5c Yamaha

After playing synthetic reeds for awhile, I settled with the Legere reeds in 2015. But I decided to try the VENN G2 this last go around. The tone and response of this reed was INCREDIBLE from the time I put it on my mouthpiece!! So I practiced on it everyday from Monday when I got it until it time for my gig on Sunday. When I played it on the gig with amplification, it was simply AMAZING!! But here comes the missing star out of the 4 stars. At week 2, the reed split on me! I was so disappointed! I wanna love this reed and give it that 4th star, but I need you guys at D'Addario to fix that issue. I will circle back around when there is a G3!

I have been playing Legere Signatures for as long as I can remember. Tried many other synthetic reeds, and none came close. Well… these reeds may be it. They combine all the attributes of a Legere reed with the projection of a cane reed. The high register has substantially more body as well. A joy to play.Note of caution: their strength is higher than the number may indicate. I play 2.75/3 Legeres, and a Venn 2.5 is just as stiff as a Legere 3.

I have been a Woodwind Pro for over 40 years. During this time, I have tried practically every synthetic reed that has come down the pike. After playing on Legeres for about a year, I came across the Venn G2 reeds and was immediately impressed with how natural they feel and sound. But I have decided to stop using them on tenor and here is why. The last few tenors that I have bought started splitting within a couple of weeks of playing and at $32 a reed it is just not cost effective. I haven't noticed this problem on alto or clarinet but my main instrument is tenor.UPDATE: D'ADDARIO was gracious enough to send me replacements for the split reeds but one of them split after 3 gigs in 4 days and the other just lost it's life after about a week. I thought I really liked Venn Reeds but splitting after 3 gigs is just not cost effective. Going back to Legere.

Plays well at first, and the strength number matches expectations. However, there is no "character" in the sound. Bland, blah. Poor tone gets worse in upper range. In short, it works, but you might not enjoy the sound of it.

Llego en menos tiempo del acordado, llego justo lo que pedí y en buen estado.

I was very excited to try a new synthetic after years of playing legere, however I might be sticking to legere. I purchased the reed a half strength down from my legere and it was still way to hard and it was a struggle to get a sound. It makes me think it was an error with the manufactuting which is normal with cane reeds but is very unfortunatewhen it is one $40 reed.

Really bad service, I don’t recommend .

BUONA SU TUTTI I REGISTRI, FACILE ANCHE L'EMISSIONE. DA RICOMPERARE.

I use the tenor sax reed on my Bass Clarinet and on a friend's advice chose a half strength lower than a regular cane reed. It doesn't fade or become water logged, has a great tone and it responsive.

Hice caso de otras reseñas y me ayudaron. Compré la 2.0 y me viene genial. Normalmente uso 2,5 o 3 dependiendo de la abertura de la boquilla. Esta caña me recuerda a las fibracell en sonido. Solo la he probado con una boquilla de metal otto link y suena bastante brillante. Se la ve fuerte y durará bastante...eso espero!!!

Excellent produit mais attention à l'echelle de rigidité, elle est très forte. force 2 est trop pour moi alors qu'en Legere American Cut c'est parfait. La tremper dans l'eau bouillante pendant 2 secondes et çà passe.J'ai un son moins brillant qu'avec ma légère. Je la garde comme seconde option.