Right now it has the heads that came with the kit.I have an Evans EQ pad in my 22" TAMA Silverstar bass drum, but it barely touches the head; the top of it is maybe an inch or two from the bottom of the drum.
I like it, and it does its job on my bass drum, but I'm thinking you should be able to tune and leave a 20" bass drum wide open.
What kind of heads are you using?
Hello, Has anyone tried the evans EQ bass drum muffle pad? If so, thoughts? I am trying to figure out what to use to muffle my 20 inch bass drum. I have coated heads on the toms (10,12,14) and plan to use the kit (Yamaha Gigmaker) on small, quieter gigs.
Thanks,
Sean
I put it the bottom inside of my bass drum not touching either head. I used it to soak up the high frequencies bouncing around inside.
I'm using the pad with light pressure on the front head so it has more of a gating effect than a muffling effect. Evens EMAD Calftones with the smaller of the two rings. It's got a terrific boom, a nice long comping tone and sounds round and warm feathered.The pads are cool - but I haven't used one since I started using the EMAD heads with the built in muffling rings. I might look a new head before I added the pad.
I use a clear EMAD and there's tons of cool variations:
You can get the UV emad - which is a coated version
The Calftone EMA - which is a version that usese the calftone head for that warmer vintage calfskin kind of sound
EMAD Heavy Weight - if you're a harder hitter (it has 2 10mil plies) or want an even fatter punch
I love those heads.
Also the Aquarian Superkick are similiar with the built in muffling ring and those sound AWESOME too - I'm less familiar with the variations of them.