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My observation… if I hit the strings individually with my thumb pad (thenar eminence), the low E, and maybe A make the percussive sound. The other strings offer little.

I would agree with JumpinJeff ‘The thumb is contacting primarily the Bass strings and really it is mostly the E and A string that makes the snare sound’.

I also got more sound moving towards the nut while fingerpicking over the sound hole.