Heads
Hi All,
I know this topic has to have been addressed a million times already, but I must just be doing an awful job of searching for it. In any event, here are my questions.
I am wondering how many folks play Remo clear Ambassador batter heads and Remo clear Diplomat resonance heads. Some of you may recall that I recently got a brand new DW cherry drum set a few months back, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 inch toms with a 22" bass. I have been very happy with the stock DW heads and had gotten them tuned just perfectly. Of course, never being happy with leaving well enough alone, and the idea of trying some heads that would be significantly more muffled, I tried a set of Evans EC2 over EC resonant heads. I was not pleased, and honestly, contrary to what I'd been led to believe about these types of heads, I was not able to get the toms to tune with those heads in place.
So...I've decided to try a fully 'unmuffled' sound, given that the cherry shells have a deep fundamental, anyway. I am getting several sets of heads, figuring I'll try something similar to the stock heads (i.e., both the batter and reso being single ply). I'm getting a set of Remo clear Diplomats for the resonance side, and clear Ambassadors for the batter heads. I seem to find very few posts about people who play this combination. It seems that Emperors over clear Ambassadors are a pretty common combination (similar to the Evans clear G2 over G1 combo that I had on my old DW maple kit). Do any of you have experience with the Ambassadors over Diplomats? I'm also getting the 2 ply Emperors, too, so I'll have that as an option. I also will have the Evans option, G2 over G1 available.
I'm sure that many of you will just suggest putting the stock heads back on, which I could. But I'm just really interested in exploring new sounds with my new drum set. I do have the option of putting coated Ambassador X batters on (with the exception of the 18" tom, which does not come in an 'X' version, so that is just a regular coated Ambassador).
So what do you all think of the clear Ambassador over clear Diplomats? I'm kind of anxious to see what these will sound like on these cherry drums.
Last edited by cabasner; 08-29-2015 at 11:55 PM.
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