Update: my marching snare is DEFINITELY much louder than my other drums, it just doesn’t seem like it when I’m sitting at the kit, and the DIY insulation soundproofing job I did on the underside of my garage door works so well. I recently found out that the resonant head could be tighter, so I now have it as tight as it will go, and the result is a much livelier response. I had a friend play a few songs on it while I listened from across the church sanctuary, and the tone carries much further and sounds much richer and fuller than my other snares with high dynamic playing. With softer playing, it is still only slightly louder than my other snares at its current tuning, so as long as I detune the batter head by about a quarter-turn, I should still be able to use it with my jazz band. Even with the cranked up tuning on both heads, it still has by far the most flexible dynamic range of any snare drum I have ever played.