hihat wrote:
Thanks for all the nice comments. i made the holes with a 14" hollow punch, very easy to do.
Now I came accross something else. I always had kits with rather thin shells, Lite, SClassix, SQ2 vintage maple, Designer maple light, so the thick beech shells of this SS-kit gave me headaches concerning tuning and sound. Most of the time I use single ply coated heads for the smaller toms and sometimes emperors for the larger.
In my head I have a standard how a kit should sound and always managed to come close to that, but not with this kit.I tried all kinds, Remo ambs coated, emps coated, Aquarians coated, but nothing came close, the sound was dull, muffled untill I tried clear ambs. The kit suddenly opened up. Still different from my other kits, less sustain but great.
Do any of you have that same experience with thick(er) beech shells?
Rob, how thick are those shells?
Generally speaking, the thicker the shell the drier the tone. When Sonor talks about "focus," they mean less harmonics. It makes sense that the thinnest clear heads are going to be more resonant. Of course that goes without saying, but the effect becomes more pronounced as the shells become thicker.
That phenomenon is not unique to beech.
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