personally: i think that everything that guy told you was wrong. but thats the beauty of opinion, you dont need to be correct. if your looking for a brighter, more projective sound that will mostly come out of you.. DO NOT go out and buy a damn Selmer S80 C*...thats the stupedist thing ive ever heard to gain projection and brighten up your tone.. those things are insanely hard to project with.. theyre almost restricting.. i wouldnt change your meyer.. you can do fine with a meyer.. Claude Lakey mouthpieces are known for thier edge and projection.. i play one and i can overplay the band in any shout section if i put enough air thru the horn. i choose not to though. and the ligature thing is pretty misguided as well. theres absolutely nothing wrong with rovners.. i play on a a Rovner Light for Jazz and Rovner Dark for our legit/concert band and both suit my needs very well.. dont go out and blow your money on a Optimum.. those things are like 80 bucks.. if im payn 80 bucks to hold some cane onto a piece of hard rubber, i better be getting more than just a ligature. gimme some food or somthin haha ya kno? thats a lot of money. maybe this dude is like some closet professional that knows that using the exact opposite equipment of what kinda sound you are going for will eventually lead you to that sound.. but i somehow doubt it lol lata

This is kind of coming in a little late, but oh well. First of all, since your playing on a meyer and ZZ's, I'm going to assume you want a better jazz sound, possibly for lead. Personally, Meyers just dont cut it for me. I played a Meyer 5 M for a while and it just wasnt what I was looking for. So I switched to a Runyon Custom Jazz 8 (the blue one). That and a fibracell 2 reed. This weekend I did a big scale concert with lots of people, and I had more people compliment me on my sound than I ever got with a meyer. I even had some college professors talk to me about 'their school'.... The point is, I hate Vandoren. The blue box... I'm lucky to get two reeds that will play. V16's... same. I think the ZZ's are the best, but they die after about a week or two of playing. Try a fibracell, if you dont like it and perfer to stick to cain, Id go with Alexander Superials. Hands down. Best jazz reeds I've played yet. And theres nothing wrong with a Roverner, thats what I play on... If you want to waste your money on an expensive ligature though, Id go with an Olegature. Anyway, if your looking for a really bright sound, like I said, get off the meyer and go with a runyon and fibracell. Great lead piece!

Does "projective and bright sound" mean louder? Maybe you mean Louder and big as appose to louder and thin? Just tring to grasp what you really want. I am gonna guess that you can't hear youself very well in concernt band and want to sound louder while staying tasteful. First things first, all concert band directors hate saxophones. It's the last thing they want their band to sound like. They would prefer the woodwind sound of clarient, monitone in greatness. The would prefer the French Horn Power. So that leaves you in the sax section waiting to play post 1920's concert music and solo's. A side goal might be to just try to get your section to sound better. Back on topic. The guy that told you to go rob a bank and buy thouse things seems really "my way or the highway" Maybe a better suggestion would be to take about 300 1 dollar bills and burn them in your bell. That might make you sound better too.The green of the burnt ink with make your sound warmer... heh. Louder=Larger Chamber. Brighter=More open face mouthpiece. Brighter can also be achieved by better designed legatures. So Yes a $75 lig will slightly make your sound brighter. Your Meyer 6 has a pretty large chamber(larger then an S80) and an open facing (more open then an S80) so going to an S80 is like going in the opposite direction. Probaby a more accepted legit moutpiece but Meyer is very well respected mouthpiece by all sax players. So to the first guy, I don't agree with the mouthpice suggestion. The ligature ones seem fine, but expensive. Not sure about the whole clarient leg. thing but if it works, good times. I personally wouldn't use clarient parts on my sax for ego reasons. Personally, I don't think other then for solo work or your the lead alto should you be overplaying the rest of your section. That leads back to a better overall section. The lead should phrase and you should copy. If the lead is wrong you should tell him/her.