Can some one please describe on the kick drum the actual placement of felt strips when used??
the more surface area of head that comes in contact with the strip, the more muffled the head becomes.
while I've never used an actual "Felt Strip", I did use strips of bed linen at one time (basically does the same thing).
Someone had once left some linens with me and I was looking for a "bigger" sound out of my BD.
At the time, I used to fill my BD with old clothes, about 1/2 full.
The sound was a bit thuddy, but awfully quiet (and I wanted to be LOUD, back then).
I figured I needed to get rid of that stuff in order to gain the volume, but I still wanted to quell the heads, so I took one of the linens, tore two strips from it, about 3" wide and about 2.5-3 feet long.
I set the drum on end, took one head off, and laid one of the strips across the middle of the opening.
I evened out the strip and taped one side to the shell, then pulled on the strip and taped that other end to the other side of the shell.
This put a pre-load on the strip and made it stiff.
I then put the head back on and tightened it, almost as tight as if I were tuning one of my toms.
I did the same thing on the other end.
The end result was a
HUGE sounding BD, with almost no ring from the heads.
Its a great way to get a really big, loud sound our of your BD.
No more thump for me....I had found something better!
Elvis