Choosing heads

[dagosto]

My new roomate uses the Evans G2 Genera on his gibralter snare. It sounds great. They rims on that thing are made of some sort of ceramic.

[McLean]

i used a marching band head from premier on top of my snare and got awsome duability and great sound, even really good action with the sticks on it. but now i use a fiber-sink head from remo (i think) and it sounds the absolute best to me.

[McLean]

that is fiber-skin head not sink head

[lukedavo]

Whoopysnorp wrote: "No way do drums with no bottom head sound better! They sound dead, flat, and lifeless. If a tom is properly tuned with the bottom head on it, it can sound anywhere from high and jazzy to deep and rumbling, Bonham-style."

Not sure what drums you've recorded without bottom heads, but if they are nice drums, they shouldn't sound dead flat and lifeless. From my personal experience and what I learned over the years, give it a try and then tell me different.

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by lukedavo

Whoopysnorp wrote: "No way do drums with no bottom head sound better! They sound dead, flat, and lifeless. If a tom is properly tuned with the bottom head on it, it can sound anywhere from high and jazzy to deep and rumbling, Bonham-style."

Not sure what drums you've recorded without bottom heads, but if they are nice drums, they shouldn't sound dead flat and lifeless. From my personal experience and what I learned over the years, give it a try and then tell me different.

Friend of mine's drummer had this old Mapex kit that pretty much had no shells. It was like a Rototom kit, with the shell depth being only like 2", but the toms sounded HUGE. I was shocked. Also, it was the best kit to pack into a car ever.