Members skinthrasher Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 I just installed an Aquarian "Focus X" on my COB Slingerland snare and it really made that thing sound pretty damn good! Really nice pop at the center and no harsh ring at the edge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gremson Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 Every snare drum (other than a POS) deserves to be tried, at least, with a coated ambassador. More recordings have been made with this head than all the others combined. You can get a lot of sounds out of it. A coated G1 is a close second. Just as good, just different. If I really can't get an ambassador to work, I try a CS (reverse dot). For some snares that really does the trick. If you need more muffling than that on a snare you either need to be sent to the drummer re-education camp or get a new snare. Sounds familiar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stark Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 HD Genera Dry. PERFECT for my Tama Metalworks. .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thomas G Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 Coated Ambassador all the way for me. I can't picture myself ever using a different head on a snare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cross Eyed Mary Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 Coated Amby or Modern Vintage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shawn76 Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 Genera HD Dry Same thing I am using.Has a nice pop to it.Sounds good on the new OCDP snare I bought a month ago. I have tried other heads on my old snare and was not impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zeromus-X Posted September 23, 2009 Members Share Posted September 23, 2009 Most of you guys will think this is blasphemy, but -- I don't even know what my snare head is. It's old. We play 2-3 gigs a week, three 1-hour sets. The head is probably two years old. I know it's an Evans head, it's frosted, and has a reverse dot. I had EC2 frosted heads on my toms, and if there's an EC snare head, that's what this is. So why haven't I changed it? It just sounds good the way it is. It's got a ton of "pop" to it still, and if I need more crack, I turn up the bottom snare mic. But most important of all -- it's QUIET. I don't know if I can attribute this to the fact that it's old and worn out, or the fact that there's been so many shots of Jager spilled on it that it's just swimming in the rim. The head has all kinds of stains, some blue from the Blue Curacao, some brown from the Jager, some red from the bleeding from flailing around while drinking Blue Curacao and Jager. But it's so quiet that we get NO noise complaints at all. I could probably set up next to an old couple eating dinner and they'd say "my, what a quiet snare drum that is." With a mic right on the drum head, it sounds like a snare drum. I'm using custom-molded IEMs, and we're running everything through a top-of-the-line (Meyer Sound) PA system. And in my earbuds, and out front, it sounds like a snare drum should sound. So... why "fix" it with a new head? Then I'll be loud again, and I'll be out fifteen bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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