Having grown up with Rico and Rico Royal reeds I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Vandoren ZZ reeds remind me of them. The strengths are pretty similar as well with the ZZ's being just a touch softer than a given strength in the Rico's. The cane seems to be slightly better as well. In general I have never been much of a fan of Vandoren products. I have found blue box Vandoren's to be dead playing (at least for me), java's are better and V16's are better still. ZZ's work well for me.
I mostly have been playing ZZ's on tenor with some on alto once in a while and on bari. As I have a pretty large stash of reeds for these instruments I don't see changing over anytime soon.
I mostly have been playing ZZ's on tenor with some on alto once in a while and on bari. As I have a pretty large stash of reeds for these instruments I don't see changing over anytime soon.