I decided a couple days ago it was a good idea to change the covers on the sticks, the tips stll looked pretty good, so I decided to just change the covers...
I took the tips off, and after tugging and yanking for a few minutes I put them into the oven (as someone suggested to me would be 100 times faster then the hairdryer that ahead recommends) for about a minute at 200 degrees with the new covers staying in for about 45 seconds longer as it was a quick pull the sticks out, cover slides right off gets tossed, and pull out new covers and push them onto the sticks... they went on quite easy, along with the tips...
problem is this... I totally just lost the 'balance' the sticks used to have... with one being a bit more responsive on rebound and making it a bit higher pitched on my practice pad... I didn't spend 25 bucks on them for nothing, but I would like to know if I did something wrong when I switched covers, or if I should go spend the 3 bucks to pick up new tips while I am at it... if that will fix the imbalance... since they were absolutely perfect when I bought them... otherwise I'm gonna stick the lars signatures on the mantle and go back to a set of 5b short tapers like I like... it's just 30 bucks I don't want to spend poor college student and all!
I took the tips off, and after tugging and yanking for a few minutes I put them into the oven (as someone suggested to me would be 100 times faster then the hairdryer that ahead recommends) for about a minute at 200 degrees with the new covers staying in for about 45 seconds longer as it was a quick pull the sticks out, cover slides right off gets tossed, and pull out new covers and push them onto the sticks... they went on quite easy, along with the tips...
problem is this... I totally just lost the 'balance' the sticks used to have... with one being a bit more responsive on rebound and making it a bit higher pitched on my practice pad... I didn't spend 25 bucks on them for nothing, but I would like to know if I did something wrong when I switched covers, or if I should go spend the 3 bucks to pick up new tips while I am at it... if that will fix the imbalance... since they were absolutely perfect when I bought them... otherwise I'm gonna stick the lars signatures on the mantle and go back to a set of 5b short tapers like I like... it's just 30 bucks I don't want to spend poor college student and all!