I'm not too familiar with Paiste..since hands on the particular brand was pretty much slim back in the 90s until now. RJ carried so little of the Paiste line that as a newbie back then, I thought Paiste's suck..until I found out Eric Kretz uses them! And I forgot what line made up his cymbal set, but Core and the rest of the STP catalogue, along with the Gin Blossom's two album, Paiste blew me away with loud and full and washy cymbal sounds.