BigSexyPanda
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I was just wondering what were some good heads that could last getting a good beating and also help give a good deep tone to drums.
I was just wondering what were some good heads that could last getting a good beating and also help give a good deep tone to drums.
Ball-tipped sticks will kill drumheads quickly, but other than that durability has more to do with the drummer than the heads.
If you really do want a "thick head with a good deep tone" I'd try Evans clear EC1s. Single-ply 14mil. Sound great tuned low, very warm, few overtones. Louder than a 2-ply.
Trying heads is expensive; what I do is boil it down to 2 or 3 candidates and buy one head each for just one tom, say a 12". Try them one after the other, you'll see what they sound like on your drums and get a pretty good idea of what a set of them will sound like without spending a fortune.
I have a slight caution: the ec1/ec2 on smaller drums (6/8) really flatten the tonality. On smaller toms I use 2 ply clear with no damping. I prefer using g2 clears to ec-2, just because a dab of moongel may be all the damping I need, and the ring may be more than I want.
I just tried the gplus coated and they slaughter the tone IMO. UGH.