Bo Eder
Platinum Member
Resonant friendly? To me that means off the bass and either hanging off a cymbal stand (which I don't like) or on it's own stand.
Give that bass shell a chance and remove the mounts and the drum!
Did you hear what Peter Erskine had to say about things mounted on the bass drum? He said he likes how the whole kit resonates when everything is connected, and part of me agrees with him. That's how everybody played their kits back then. Resonance Isolation wasn't even an idea yet, and drummers made their kits ring really good with calf heads!
I'm not so sure the resonance isolationists got it completely right. On the one hand we have drums that sing. On the other hand, we now carry more weight in chromed hardware around. I just listen to my favorite music from those eras, and look at what they played, and deem that as all you'd ever need. Of course, certain improvements worked, like better spurs (which you're not getting on these "new" Gretsch drums), and floating rubber floor tom feet, but that's about it, eh?