wood, plastic or foam beaters?

[Ostia Man]

Hi!
I'm a guitar player and dont know anything about drums, but i need to record some drums.
what's the difference in sound betwen wood, foam and plastic beaters?
I know plastic has more snap that foam, but i've never heard how wood beaters sound.
Thanx!

 

[scrubs]

What style of music? Both plastic and wood are going to have lots of slap/click, depending on how you tune the head & mic them. Felt/rubber will have a softer attack with plenty of punch. Lambswool will be the softest, with more boom.

 

[PhilGood]

Wood has more attack than plastic, but also has more 'thump'.

 

[slidey]

Ya know people have been discussing this around me since I was knee high & I've tried em all except glass & I use felt for everything & I could click a hole in your wall

honest

 

[zacanger]

I've used wood, plastic, and felt, and felt just... feels better, I dunno.

 

[Supercreep]

................Foam?

 

[scrubs]

................Foam?

I put a big marshmallow on my kick pedal. Sounds sweet and gooey.

 

[gbondo9]

I use a flacid penis that I skewered off a cadavar in Anatomy class.....

Works like a charm!!! All my drums tracks sound like Metallica's St. Anger album!!!

 

[Supercreep]

I just kick at the fuckin' thing with my gnarled bare foot.

 

[Supercreep]

Do you have a Nerf drumkit?

 

[ez_willis]

I have Chuck Norris kick it. Sounds sweet. Like thunder.

 

[L mandrake]

I use a flacid penis that I skewered off a cadavar in Anatomy class.....

Works like a charm!!! All my drums tracks sound like Metallica's St. Anger album!!!

Any good taxidermist can get that thing erect for you, gives a woodier type of wump. circumsized is better, to get that separate stalk/head sort of thing. dont want the stalk hitting the skin.

 

[tarnationsauce2]

I've used screwdrivers as beaters before.

 

[Ostia Man]

jaja sorry about the foam, english is not my first language.
felt not foam sorry jeje
thanx!

 

[Atterion]

Felt's for me. They're hell of a lot friendly towards the life of your bass drum heads too.

 

[Elton Bear]

I prefer a decent lump of wood on my bass drum pedal, but I use plastic w/ felt covering (one side obv) on my double pedal for a more forgiving sound.

Felt never seems to have enough attack for me, and I just use gaffer tape or cut cork as a beater pad to save my heads.