dudesikoff
Junior Member
Before I state my question I should introduce myself, my name is Chaz, and I have been drumming off an on for about 5 years. While I have been drumming for that long, I'm not that great, and don't have too much knowledge in drumming hardware.
Now to my question, "Can I use a batter head as a resonant, and if not, what would it sound like?"
I believe the answer is no, but let me get some more background info on why I am asking this.
I bought a set from my friend for $150, not a bad deal, it came with a double bass pedal, three toms, bass, snare, hi hat, crash, and crash ride. Anyways, when I first played these drums I instantly popped a hole into 2 of the 3 tom's heads. The heads hadn't been replaced in over 5 years so I figured it was time to replace the batters and resonants.
So I headed down to my local Guitar Center, and I told the "Drum Expert" I needed resonant and batter heads. He picked out I know for a fact a pack of Evans G2 Coated, which is a batter head. I don't remember off the top of my head what the "resonants" were. Because apparently his idea of what a batter is, is a coated head, which is clearly not true, because can't a batter be either coated, or clear, and he thought that a clear automatically meant it was a resonant.
I was skeptical of his theory, but went with it, just because I assumed he knew more than me...
So back to the issue at hand, I think I could have possibly purchased two packs of batter heads, one clear and one coated, I put the heads on my drums and they don't sound horrible, they sound somewhat bongo-y.
Could I have bought the wrong drum heads?
Are ANY batter/resonant heads interchangeable?
I looking on the Evans website, and they have a G1 under both the resonant and batter category, with the same product number, does that mean that the G1 is interchangeable?
Any info on the subject would be EXTREMELY appreciated.
Now to my question, "Can I use a batter head as a resonant, and if not, what would it sound like?"
I believe the answer is no, but let me get some more background info on why I am asking this.
I bought a set from my friend for $150, not a bad deal, it came with a double bass pedal, three toms, bass, snare, hi hat, crash, and crash ride. Anyways, when I first played these drums I instantly popped a hole into 2 of the 3 tom's heads. The heads hadn't been replaced in over 5 years so I figured it was time to replace the batters and resonants.
So I headed down to my local Guitar Center, and I told the "Drum Expert" I needed resonant and batter heads. He picked out I know for a fact a pack of Evans G2 Coated, which is a batter head. I don't remember off the top of my head what the "resonants" were. Because apparently his idea of what a batter is, is a coated head, which is clearly not true, because can't a batter be either coated, or clear, and he thought that a clear automatically meant it was a resonant.
I was skeptical of his theory, but went with it, just because I assumed he knew more than me...
So back to the issue at hand, I think I could have possibly purchased two packs of batter heads, one clear and one coated, I put the heads on my drums and they don't sound horrible, they sound somewhat bongo-y.
Could I have bought the wrong drum heads?
Are ANY batter/resonant heads interchangeable?
I looking on the Evans website, and they have a G1 under both the resonant and batter category, with the same product number, does that mean that the G1 is interchangeable?
Any info on the subject would be EXTREMELY appreciated.