Gretsch Renown Replacement Drum Heads- Any tips?

rinlow

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Does anyone have suggestions for replacement heads for their gretsch renown kits(or others)? Should I also consider replacing the resonant heads as well or just start with the batters?
 
My Renown did extremely well with Ambassador over Ambassador. Clear on the reso. Coated or clear on the batter.

If you're an Evans person, I imagine G1/G1 will perform almost identically.

The only reason to use a different head is if you experience an issue with, or need to tone down, single-ply/single-ply.
 
I use an ambassador on the rack tom/snare and an emperor on the floor tom. I haven’t bothered changing the resos on my Renown and I find that’s a good setup.
 
I have Coated G2's over coated G1's on the 13" rack and the 16 " floor. Gives me a nice warm tone.
 
I bought an older renown set with slightly-used heads. (The seller may have used something else and put the original heads back on for the sale.)
Anyway, the resonant heads were very thin, maybe 7 mils. The toms were much easier to tune to a lower pitch when I replaced the heads with regular Evans G1 10 mil reso heads.
 
I have tried almost everything Evans, and do best with coated G2 over clear G1
 
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