Mastiff
Senior Member
I know there are a lot of people on this forum who like the full resonant drum sound, but I'm after more of the classic rock "dead" sound with more attack and fast decay. I bought some Evans hydraulic batter heads and I like them, but so far have just kept the original resonant heads. I believe the old school way was to have no resonant head at all, but short of that, I'm looking for suggestions on how to tune the resonant head relative to the batter, or possibly what kind of resonant heads to get. My floor tom in particular still has too much resonance and long decay for what I'm after. I've tried loosening up the reso, but it actually makes it much worse and gives it a really deep boom that is all wrong with the rack toms.