DAddario Woodwinds VENN Tenor Saxophone 2.0

I am sold to synthetic reeds since quite a while, having been using Legérè reeds for a few years. Although I love my American Cut reeds, I feel at times that they miss some energy on the upper registry. The VENN reed satisfied that need for more expression and more vibrant, richer tone.

While I am quite happy with them, there are a couple things that I am not 100% satisfied with. First, D'Addario really should sell half strengths (something like: 1.75 and 2.25, while now only 2.0 and 2.5 are available) because the VENN I'm using (2.0) is slightly too soft for me, but the 2.5 is way too hard. Second thing I am not happy with is the reed behavior on the palm keys (which, again, might be due to the fact that I should use a slightly harder reed). With these caveats in mind, the VENN is now my reed of choice: warm tone, responsive, flexible, I feel I can play almost any genre with it!