I use Evans blue hydraulic heads all the way around on my Zickos kit. I love the way they sound.
Sorry... but I believe, perhaps I'm mistaken... but Pinstripes and Emperor heads have no "oil" or fluid of any kind... that "liquid effect" you see is the way the two plies affect light.
a little less 'boingy' while retaining attack and feel.
Sorry... but I believe, perhaps I'm mistaken... but Pinstripes and Emperor heads have no "oil" or fluid of any kind... that "liquid effect" you see is the way the two plies affect light.
And indeed, hydraulic heads are a perfect match for acrylic drums. Zickos and Vistalite (I owned both) drums are especially bright. Zickos came stock with red hydraulics, if my memory is correct.
Boingy is a product of tuning. You can tune out boing. Usually, when the batter head is tensioned tighter than the reso head, you get the boing. Make the batter head tighter than the reso. You can test the theory by turning the drum around and hitting the reso head. It should sound less boingy if it's looser than the batter.
If you saw how little the amount of oil is in an Evans Hydraylic, you would not believe it, its just a tiny wipe of an oil filled cloth over the ply.
I'm sorry, I messed up the wording in that post. I edited it. What I meant to say is keep the reso tighter than the batter. A tight batter and a looser reso sounds boingy to me. A looser batter and a tighter reso sounds much more punchy to me.Sorry, but I don't understand this - I'm still working on learning proper tuning myself - do you get a 'boing' when the batter is tighter than the reso head or vice verse?
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...
I'm sorry, I messed up the wording in that post. I edited it. What I meant to say is keep the reso tighter than the batter. A tight batter and a looser reso sounds boingy to me. A looser batter and a tighter reso sounds much more punchy to me.
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...
HA! Very true. People use the thinnest, ringiest heads on their drums and complain about how thin and ringy they are, then stuff pillows, blankets, mattresses and engine blocks into their drums and duct-tape tampons to the heads to kill the sound as much as possible (don't laugh, there are photos of that somewhere around here). But if you suggest hydraulic heads, they're like, "No WAY would I ever do that to my drums!!"