Bass trouble

Liaztraht

Silver Member
I am having trouble with the tuning on my bass drum. I keep getting a sound kind of like what you hear when you slam a soccer ball against the ground, some kind of weird echo.

If I detune the heads it goes away, but I get to much slap, raising them only makes the sound higher pitched, and muffling either head only deadens the resonance to much for my taste, And if I put a small blanket in with out touching the heads, I still get the sound.

I am using a 2 ply EMAD with the thickest ring, and the reso is a stock Remo ux made like the powerstroke 3, but crimp locked instead of glued.

I'm not sure what's causing this, but it sounded good when I first put the heads on and tuned it. Is it a bad head? Or possibly something else?
The heads are only a little over a month old.
 
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