Hi all If you, like I was, have been curious about the Vandoren V21 and V12 for sax and haven't tried them yet I created a little video playtesting them against a regular Blue Box reed. They're marketed as classical reeds but I thought that they might work for someone who plays jazz and pop...

According to the Vandoren saxophone reed chart, the V12's and the traditionals (blue box) are equivalent in strength, however.... I bought some V12's for my alto and tenor classical setups recently, sticking to the same strengths I was using with the trads (3 for alto, 3½ for tenor). On alto...