I found a side snare that works great with my 18x14" drum. Now I am trying to get a nice tight thump out of the bottom head while still getting a deep tom sound out of the top head. I can get the bass tone right but I just can't seem to keep the top head from sounding flat.
The bottom head is a coated evans eq3 (like a remo powerstroke) and the top head is a pinstripe. If anyone can give me some advice on how to get the sound I'm looking for I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.
-Joe
looking for tuning help
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fw
The first set of replacement heads I ever bought for my first drumset when I was like 14 or so was a set of pinstripes. In those days, I didn't know much about drums, but I knew I wanted the set to look cool for the audience. So I put the pinstripes on the bottoms of the toms and left my beaten up old Ludwig silver dots or Remo Soundmasters on the tops. My drums had a sub-cardboard sound.
From that experience, I learned that Pinstripes are not very good resonant/bottom heads, and that might be the problem. The Pinstripe would give you good attack and bass on the top, but it can't generate much sustain, and if the air is travelling to an EQ 3, you won't get any resonance from that, either. With two relatively "dead" heads, it will be hard to get much resonance.
My hunch would be to try a coated emperor on the top, or whatever Evans' equivalent two ply head is. You'd still get the muffling effects of two plies of plastic and the added muffling of coating, but you'd get more resonance, too. I don't fully understand pinstripe construction, but that outer cloudy zone of glue seems to keep vibrations from moving smoothly all across the head, which is why the sound is so focused.
Well, time to work!
FW
From that experience, I learned that Pinstripes are not very good resonant/bottom heads, and that might be the problem. The Pinstripe would give you good attack and bass on the top, but it can't generate much sustain, and if the air is travelling to an EQ 3, you won't get any resonance from that, either. With two relatively "dead" heads, it will be hard to get much resonance.
My hunch would be to try a coated emperor on the top, or whatever Evans' equivalent two ply head is. You'd still get the muffling effects of two plies of plastic and the added muffling of coating, but you'd get more resonance, too. I don't fully understand pinstripe construction, but that outer cloudy zone of glue seems to keep vibrations from moving smoothly all across the head, which is why the sound is so focused.
Well, time to work!
FW