JimmyM
Gold Member
The Aquarian Super Kick 2 gets the love from drummers online but rarely does anyone talk about the Super Kick 10, and I recently got a couple with a set I bought, and got to wind them out for a few days on my DDrum 20 x 22 Diablo and my CB700 14 x 22 with watchface lugs and no reso head. Nothing but the finest for my tests! 
First the important thing...these are the ugliest heads with the ugliest garish logos I have ever seen in my life! Nobody buys them but metalheads because they're ugly and loud looking. If I didn't get them with the kit, I'd never consider them based on ugliness alone.
They have extra thick plies and are designed to not require muting, and they don't if you're looking for basketballs on the gym floor with greatly enhanced sub lows. They're also very low pitched so you can tighten them up tight and do 16th note bass drum paraddles at 400 BPM. That part I actually like. But I had to tune them so tight to take a little edge off the sub frequencies that it took away the attack, and they were still too subby, and taking off the reso head did nothing to help.
So I tried them with a blanket inside. Finally the sub lows calmed down to a more trad level, and so did any semblance of tone when you run them headless. All lows and attacky highs. Adding a reso gave it some tone back, though, and backing off a little with the tuning gave it a good solid sound with some definition and a decent amount of high end that's approaching usable for me. Still not where I want them to be but I think I may actually be able to use them after I get the look toned down. I don't even want to take them out on a gig.
But they were free and I'll use them. I have the belief that any gear I'm using should be able to get a good sound as long as it's in good working order, and I won't let a doofy looking metal-only bass drum head stop me. I'm pretty close to getting a good sound out of the Diablo bass drum that doesn't make my head swim, and I'll complete the job tomorrow. But of all the muted heads of this nature I've used and heard before (Powerstroke, EMAD, SK2), this is by far my least favorite in every way. Then again, I'm not their target audience for this head and that's cool.
First the important thing...these are the ugliest heads with the ugliest garish logos I have ever seen in my life! Nobody buys them but metalheads because they're ugly and loud looking. If I didn't get them with the kit, I'd never consider them based on ugliness alone.
They have extra thick plies and are designed to not require muting, and they don't if you're looking for basketballs on the gym floor with greatly enhanced sub lows. They're also very low pitched so you can tighten them up tight and do 16th note bass drum paraddles at 400 BPM. That part I actually like. But I had to tune them so tight to take a little edge off the sub frequencies that it took away the attack, and they were still too subby, and taking off the reso head did nothing to help.
So I tried them with a blanket inside. Finally the sub lows calmed down to a more trad level, and so did any semblance of tone when you run them headless. All lows and attacky highs. Adding a reso gave it some tone back, though, and backing off a little with the tuning gave it a good solid sound with some definition and a decent amount of high end that's approaching usable for me. Still not where I want them to be but I think I may actually be able to use them after I get the look toned down. I don't even want to take them out on a gig.
But they were free and I'll use them. I have the belief that any gear I'm using should be able to get a good sound as long as it's in good working order, and I won't let a doofy looking metal-only bass drum head stop me. I'm pretty close to getting a good sound out of the Diablo bass drum that doesn't make my head swim, and I'll complete the job tomorrow. But of all the muted heads of this nature I've used and heard before (Powerstroke, EMAD, SK2), this is by far my least favorite in every way. Then again, I'm not their target audience for this head and that's cool.
