sbowman128675
Senior Member
Ive been using Remo Pinstripes since 2005. They are a good skin and dont kill the tone of the drum and they are so easy to tune, nut fussy at all. I love them, they give a crazy good bass response.
Ive been using Remo Pinstripes since 2005. They are a good skin and dont kill the tone of the drum and they are so easy to tune, nut fussy at all. I love them, they give a crazy good bass response.
Yup! It's quite a small amount but it definitely does the trick. It always blows me away how some people trash the Hydraulic series, yet when I see what they're using, it's a two-ply with a studio ring, moongel and a duct tape...
Most of my life I have been playing drums and a good part of that time I have also been setting up and running sound in live events. I also do a lot of recording in the studio.
The fascination with drummers having to get the maximum resonance is always a battle with the sound engineers. It’s real easy in a live event and in a studio to add depth and resonance to drums (hydraulic heads are very easy to record) - it’s very hard to remove too much resonance and sustain.
I have had studio engineers want to deaden my toms ...... BTW its very easy to remove resonance and sustain if you really want to or need to just by using a gate....
Gates are a band-aid, I use them more for noisy instruments. If you have ever used a gate on Toms they never work well in all cases, mostly sounding unnatural with pumping during a roll or cutting off the tail strangely.
........., I tune my toms with as much resonance as I can possibly get but tune out and sometimes still need a moon jell on large toms to remove the odd harmonic overtones and have never had a problem. Like I said studio engineers have said they are just way too resonant and want them dead only to add reverb and delay to give them a longer decay than they were originally. Why? Just because they are used to doing it that way and it becomes routine because many times they are working with entry or intermediate kits that are sometimes harder to tune with no overtones.
Back to the thread topic of oil filled skins (many drummers seem to bash them, without owning them). Well in my case - I am the drummer, I am the recording engineer, I am the mix engineer and the producer. I have many kits with different heads on them, side by side in my studio. The easiest heads to record are the Hydraulics, hands down. I spend more time trying to FIX the mix with drummer’s resonant kits than if they were to use the hydraulic set. Usually drums have to FIT with other instruments in the mix of a song, a resonant kit tends to drown out other instruments and vocals IMO.