JimmyM
Diamond Member
From what I'm reading online, not much if you play enough. I got these old CB 700 drums a buddy of mine had for his first set, stepped up with Premiers, then went to Yamaha, and he gave me two toms and a bass drum for helping him record a song for his wife's college project on the digestive tract with lyrics she wrote and I tweaked a little to sing it in rhythm, and got her an A
But being a kid with not much money in those days, he broke thru the batter bass drum head and was using a piece of drum head held on with double sided carpet tape cut to fit the resonant head, and I don't know how long he used it before scoring the Premier kit but it's held on for decades now and nary a dent in the head. But it was for a single pedal and I want to use this double DW5000 I got last week after I get it cleaned and new beaters put in. So I was think of doing the same thing, but wanted to know what the big advantage of commercial protectors over a piece of head is, because I'm not seeing the downside, especially when so many people say they don't last long at the rate they use them..
But being a kid with not much money in those days, he broke thru the batter bass drum head and was using a piece of drum head held on with double sided carpet tape cut to fit the resonant head, and I don't know how long he used it before scoring the Premier kit but it's held on for decades now and nary a dent in the head. But it was for a single pedal and I want to use this double DW5000 I got last week after I get it cleaned and new beaters put in. So I was think of doing the same thing, but wanted to know what the big advantage of commercial protectors over a piece of head is, because I'm not seeing the downside, especially when so many people say they don't last long at the rate they use them..
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