Well if that's the case, use an old feather pillow.
Sorry, that's all I got.
But I found my solution, as mentioned in the first post... I'm just wondering what others have done that are a little out of the ordinary/modifications on other ideas.
Well if that's the case, use an old feather pillow.
Sorry, that's all I got.
Realize that when most people say "with the right heads" they mean pre-muffled heads. Something with multiple plys, or rings, or dots, or heavy plies or actual muffling rings or "systems" for removing overtones.
They're still muffling, most of the time. It's far more common to muffle bass drums than not; even most guys who "hate muffling" will still treat their bass drum.
In this case, I was referring to a Powerstroke 3. To keep the bass drum (a PHX 18'') as natural as possible. Tuned both heads quite high, yet loose enough to get a lower note.
Nothing wrong with an open kick sound if used in the right setting.
Yep, if memory serves, that BD head has a ring and a extra layer of material muffling around the outer edge. Maybe more open than some heads, but don't fool yourself into thinking you're not muffling the drum's sound. The head is designed to kill high overtones.
I have a folded towel, maybe 8 layers thick, 6 inches wide, leaning more on the batter side.
It’s held in place by two pieces of elastic which stretch between the bottom lugs. Never moves during transit or gigs, but I can reach in and adjust it if I need to.
Sound guys like the towel for resting a PZM mic on, although I also have a suspended mic in the middle of each bass drum for my own use.
Re tuning, I've used an Emad and unported front head for years now on various sized bass drums and gotten a lovely round full sound out of all of them unmicd. However the moment a drum mic comes into play then you're playing a different game and muffling becomes an element because a microphone half an inch from a drum picks up sounds that the human ear ten feet away also getting several other instruments thrown at it can't hear. Yes maybe tuning to the room is an option but it's not as quick and easy as my hoodie and it doesn't get better results