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Recently I purchased a Ludwig Black Beauty. This drum comes with a Ludwig coated medium head on it. In REMO speak, that would be a coated Diplomat. You guys can fill in the Evan's equivalent. Over the last couple of years since getting back into acoustic drums, I have been using heads, with overtone control built into them. Powerstroke X, coated PS3's. It gave me a very controlled sound but sacrificed some feel.
The Black Beaty is a 6.5 x 14, hammered snare. This snare was perfect right out of the box. If was extremely sensitive, and had a beautiful open tone to it. I started to think that maybe the head on the BB was a contributing factor to why this drum was so articulate. Last week, I picked up a coated Diplomat to put on my "Made In China" Mapex Phosphor bronze black beauty. This drum is 6.5 x 14 and also hammered. The drum now is just as sensitive as the new BB, and sings out beautifully like the BB, They both have slightly different tone, but are both nice and open, with a great sensitivity to them.
Someone on here a while back made the comment that you can always take a little ring out of an open head, but you can't make a deadened head sing out. This now makes perfect sense to me. Plus what you hear sitting right behind the snare, is very different than what you hear out front or on the recording.
I have now decided that thinner is better when it comes to snare drums. Let your snare drum run free. Take off those thick heads that will hold it back, and take away the sensitivity form your drumsticks.
The Black Beaty is a 6.5 x 14, hammered snare. This snare was perfect right out of the box. If was extremely sensitive, and had a beautiful open tone to it. I started to think that maybe the head on the BB was a contributing factor to why this drum was so articulate. Last week, I picked up a coated Diplomat to put on my "Made In China" Mapex Phosphor bronze black beauty. This drum is 6.5 x 14 and also hammered. The drum now is just as sensitive as the new BB, and sings out beautifully like the BB, They both have slightly different tone, but are both nice and open, with a great sensitivity to them.
Someone on here a while back made the comment that you can always take a little ring out of an open head, but you can't make a deadened head sing out. This now makes perfect sense to me. Plus what you hear sitting right behind the snare, is very different than what you hear out front or on the recording.
I have now decided that thinner is better when it comes to snare drums. Let your snare drum run free. Take off those thick heads that will hold it back, and take away the sensitivity form your drumsticks.