long story:
bought huge catalina maple kit a couple years for my kid who now needs minimalist kit to fit in small station wagon to play jazz in small clubs, the operative word being small so have been messing with it to achieve a small kit suitable for such. The huge bass drum is in the garage, replaced by the 16" tom which has a trick drums conversion whoojoomagigger. It doesn't sound so great, possibly due to emperor batter head and ambassador resonant. With some moon gel on batter head and reso head way loosened pitch is okay but muffled.
short:
Looking into heads I'm thinking of gifting a set of remo skyntone for the batter heads -- it has been a couple of years of lots of practice -- but think the converted bass drum might be better off with the renaissance fiberskin 3 since it is specifically designed as a bass drum head. There is a 16" skyntone but I don't know how well it would wear being beat on by a bass pedal. Still, it seems that keeping all the heads consistent might be good for some reason or the other.
Any advice?
bought huge catalina maple kit a couple years for my kid who now needs minimalist kit to fit in small station wagon to play jazz in small clubs, the operative word being small so have been messing with it to achieve a small kit suitable for such. The huge bass drum is in the garage, replaced by the 16" tom which has a trick drums conversion whoojoomagigger. It doesn't sound so great, possibly due to emperor batter head and ambassador resonant. With some moon gel on batter head and reso head way loosened pitch is okay but muffled.
short:
Looking into heads I'm thinking of gifting a set of remo skyntone for the batter heads -- it has been a couple of years of lots of practice -- but think the converted bass drum might be better off with the renaissance fiberskin 3 since it is specifically designed as a bass drum head. There is a 16" skyntone but I don't know how well it would wear being beat on by a bass pedal. Still, it seems that keeping all the heads consistent might be good for some reason or the other.
Any advice?