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I'm having trouble getting my bass drum to sound good... I was wondering if you guys can help me out maybe...
So on the batter side I have an evans emad. I'm using the smaller muffling ring because I think the big one takes all the boom out of it and I don't like the sound.
For the resonant side, I have 4 different heads I can use. I have an aquarian regulator, Remo powerstroke III (w/ hole in the middle (sounds like piss)), a Remo fiberskyn 3 FA Bass, and the stock PDP batter side painted black with some sick ass jack-knife carved hole in it that sounds so bad its not even worth mentioning i have it let alone actually letting it take up space in my "studio"..
Anyway, the only time I got it to sound halfway decent is when I had the fiberskyn on it.. I finger-tightened both heads, then started tuning the resonant side. I was turning the lugs in small incriments and it actually took quite a bit of tension to get it to really come out and sound good. Once I got it around where I thought it sounded best, i went to the batter side and tuned it in small incriments. I used a bass beater off my pedal to strike the drum while I tuned it up, so it would give me a good idea of the sound, and I didn't have to tighten it very much.. maybe 2 full turns or so.
The drum sounded great on the front side of the kit, but it didn't sound very good behind the kit. Also sometimes I bury the beater and it didn't sound good unless I released it and let it resonate completely.
But anyway, everyone swears that a hole in the reso head is better.. and I was thinking about it, do you think maybe I should try to get a hole-less head like a remo ambassador or an aquarian force II? I think if I'm going to get a different head I want a really thin resonant head to pair with my batter head... I want it to be really boomy with a lot of punch.
I have a friend who has a ludwig kit and he has an emad/stock ludwig holeless batter and his bass drum sounds amazing to me.
Also, I miked it when I had the fiberskyn.. about 2 and a half feet in front of it, and it sounded pretty good.. it really came through in the overheads and I didn't have to EQ it or anything to get it to sound good tracked.. So I don't think I really have to have a hole to mic it.
So on the batter side I have an evans emad. I'm using the smaller muffling ring because I think the big one takes all the boom out of it and I don't like the sound.
For the resonant side, I have 4 different heads I can use. I have an aquarian regulator, Remo powerstroke III (w/ hole in the middle (sounds like piss)), a Remo fiberskyn 3 FA Bass, and the stock PDP batter side painted black with some sick ass jack-knife carved hole in it that sounds so bad its not even worth mentioning i have it let alone actually letting it take up space in my "studio"..
Anyway, the only time I got it to sound halfway decent is when I had the fiberskyn on it.. I finger-tightened both heads, then started tuning the resonant side. I was turning the lugs in small incriments and it actually took quite a bit of tension to get it to really come out and sound good. Once I got it around where I thought it sounded best, i went to the batter side and tuned it in small incriments. I used a bass beater off my pedal to strike the drum while I tuned it up, so it would give me a good idea of the sound, and I didn't have to tighten it very much.. maybe 2 full turns or so.
The drum sounded great on the front side of the kit, but it didn't sound very good behind the kit. Also sometimes I bury the beater and it didn't sound good unless I released it and let it resonate completely.
But anyway, everyone swears that a hole in the reso head is better.. and I was thinking about it, do you think maybe I should try to get a hole-less head like a remo ambassador or an aquarian force II? I think if I'm going to get a different head I want a really thin resonant head to pair with my batter head... I want it to be really boomy with a lot of punch.
I have a friend who has a ludwig kit and he has an emad/stock ludwig holeless batter and his bass drum sounds amazing to me.
Also, I miked it when I had the fiberskyn.. about 2 and a half feet in front of it, and it sounded pretty good.. it really came through in the overheads and I didn't have to EQ it or anything to get it to sound good tracked.. So I don't think I really have to have a hole to mic it.