randomrod
Junior Member
Hi Drummerworld,
I'm new to this forum, having spent some considerable time on VDrum Forum.
I gig my A-Kit regularly and have equal love for both A and E-Kits.
With yesterday's local gig pending, I decided I'd had enough of my current Kick Drum ported front head arrangement and promptly treated my 22"x16" to the latest Evans Emad/Remad combination. The heads went on easily enough and tuning up was a snip!
I immediately applied an Evans Clear Patch and achieved a great sounding bass drum in no time. We mic'd up the Kit, soundchecked and I was good to go.
It was at the end of the first set, (45min) I got up and checked the front head and port hole.
To my dismay the foam port ring I'd earlier fitted, had come appart either side of the port hole and it had rotated 180 degrees - the EMAD logo was more or less upside down to where I had placed it. I assumed some clod had knocked the kick drum mic and this had torn my fragile new foam port ring (this reso head alone cost £46.00!!)
Undaunted, and with two further 45min sets to go, I replaced the torn foam ring with the other, softer ring and we continued with the second set. It was during a fast Rock'n'roll number I noticed the guitarist looking at my kick drum...
My foam port was rotating on its own whilst being sucked in and out of the port hole during play! My Kick drum was in effect, EATING the foam port ring!
Surely Evans have field-tested these products? - which do work really well at giving you a great sound - but what's the use if the thing that fixes the crappy port hole noise doesn't last longer than 30mins?
Has anyone else experienced the same reso BD head malfunction?
I could get the shop to FOC me a replacement pack of foam port rings, but what's the point if after only a few minutes of normal use, they go into self-destruct mode?
Have I now got to fork out for a 'Kickport'? Are they all that secure either?
yours in dismay,
randomrod
I'm new to this forum, having spent some considerable time on VDrum Forum.
I gig my A-Kit regularly and have equal love for both A and E-Kits.
With yesterday's local gig pending, I decided I'd had enough of my current Kick Drum ported front head arrangement and promptly treated my 22"x16" to the latest Evans Emad/Remad combination. The heads went on easily enough and tuning up was a snip!
I immediately applied an Evans Clear Patch and achieved a great sounding bass drum in no time. We mic'd up the Kit, soundchecked and I was good to go.
It was at the end of the first set, (45min) I got up and checked the front head and port hole.
To my dismay the foam port ring I'd earlier fitted, had come appart either side of the port hole and it had rotated 180 degrees - the EMAD logo was more or less upside down to where I had placed it. I assumed some clod had knocked the kick drum mic and this had torn my fragile new foam port ring (this reso head alone cost £46.00!!)
Undaunted, and with two further 45min sets to go, I replaced the torn foam ring with the other, softer ring and we continued with the second set. It was during a fast Rock'n'roll number I noticed the guitarist looking at my kick drum...
My foam port was rotating on its own whilst being sucked in and out of the port hole during play! My Kick drum was in effect, EATING the foam port ring!
Surely Evans have field-tested these products? - which do work really well at giving you a great sound - but what's the use if the thing that fixes the crappy port hole noise doesn't last longer than 30mins?
Has anyone else experienced the same reso BD head malfunction?
I could get the shop to FOC me a replacement pack of foam port rings, but what's the point if after only a few minutes of normal use, they go into self-destruct mode?
Have I now got to fork out for a 'Kickport'? Are they all that secure either?
yours in dismay,
randomrod