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For a while there, I was only using Aquarian drum heads. But lately I’ve been coming back around to Evans. You just can’t deny the coated G2 sound (especially on snares), and I’ve really been digging the newer EC2 model. I’ve got a set of clear EC2’s on my birch drums and they’re basically the perfect blend of attack and tone. Booya.
This is the Risen kit I’m rolling with these days for my “all purpose” gigs (and the black brass snare I’ve had for a while). Some of you might have seen this kit on the main stage at Sonshine last month. I’ve generally used Aquarian Response-2 heads on maple Risens but this time I threw some coated Evans G2’s on the kit and they sound killer.
In other news, the Bill Mike Band plays another free gig in a park tonight, this time in Mears Park (downtown St. Paul, 6pm). It’s part of their summer concert series and should be fun (except Mike has a cold right now so tonight’s gig might not deliver the songbird vocal performance that our band is known for).
If you’ve read my past posts about snare tone, then you’ll like my latest discovery. In an effort to make using the sheets-of-paper-on-the-snare trick a little easier for live playing, I’ve been experimenting with using an old drumhead as my “paper.” It works great.
I cut the collar off a 14″ batter head right on the bearing edge crease, and I just set the floppy head on the snare drum. It fits perfectly within the hoop and sits comfortably on top of the snare… and stays put while you hit it. It also looks great… and by that I mean there doesn’t appear to be any muffling on the drum at all. The collar-less head just blends in with your snare’s real batter head. The tone is the same… nice and deep with no ring… but now there’s no little pieces of paper ripping off while you’re playing.
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