Arena ready, Greg! To my ear it has a processed character so it wouldn't be the sound I'd pick if I had to live with just one forever, but it is fat... or what I'd call wet. Sounds like your having a lot of fun playing with the sonic possibilities of your great kit.
Thanks for posting!
To speak personally about head choices, I have realized that a portion of decisions I made were dictated by what I would now call weaknesses in my playing. Because I used to hit the drums quite a bit more forcefully, stripes or double thickness heads were employed to mute out-of-control sonics. Oh, I was pretty pleased with myself for being such a hard hitter!
What I am coming to believe is that stretched membranes produce their most lush, fat and rich tone characteristics at low to moderate impact, just the same speakers; they begin to distort as more power is applied. And that the greatest projection of tone, complete with all its most expressive characteristics, can only be acquired by using the least damped heads practicable.
Volume is relative. Hilariously, once I began playing music that required greater finesse - and after trying lighter heads for about three seconds before ripping them off in terror - I began to use sticks that had less impact, like rods and brushes. So, using Signature drums with Pin heads, I was able to keep up my whacking ways by softening the impact point - and by exploding a pair of brushes in one evening's playing!
My goal now - and it is accompanied by some frustration - is to achieve all the sonic impact (depth, dynamics, projection, power, and general expressiveness) from my kit - that I once thought I was getting by force - through stealth.
My wife's son called drums "... very simple to take up and very difficult to master." Ain't that the truth!
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