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Greg_L
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the problem is though, the new heads (g2 coated) sound dead without a reso head, has anyone else found this? The stock heads (Remo UX both batter & reso ) are very ringy when both reso & batter are on, but they seem to cope better with just a batter on (but don't sound great). This is starting to get complicated. Ideally I would have liked a tom range from (low) C# to A to Higher C# but it's well out of the range of the lower tom. Which size of tom would I need for that ballpark pitch?
A G2 Coated is a pretty dry, dead-ish head. They really need the help of a reso head or they will sound flat and lifeless, especially on your tiny sized kit. I can't imagine a 12" tom being your low floor-tom.

Anyway, think of the dead drum sounds of the 70's. Those are heavy coated batter heads with no resos. For tuning to a specific pitch, I think you'd do better with some cleaner, more open sounding clear type heads. Like clear G1's on both sides, or clear G2's on top and G1's on bottom.