bullfrogger
Junior Member
It seems a lot of peeps on this forum (and just generally) quite like the ring produced on a completely open snare, e.g. no dampening. I'm guessing because it allows the complete character of the drum through?
I'm learning to like it purely because I haven't found a happy medium when dampening - it's either too dry/thin or still allows ringing. I find I quite like it live to a degree but if there's a prominent ring on a recording I just find it horrible as the overtone itself isn't in tune with the music - really distracting!
I suppose it's all very personal - just wondered if anyone here uses dampening or a pre-dampened head to control it. I might play around with an evans dry or remo powerstroke at some point. I saw Gadd uses the remo quite a lot but his sound seems quite dry on most recordings I've heard.
I'm learning to like it purely because I haven't found a happy medium when dampening - it's either too dry/thin or still allows ringing. I find I quite like it live to a degree but if there's a prominent ring on a recording I just find it horrible as the overtone itself isn't in tune with the music - really distracting!
I suppose it's all very personal - just wondered if anyone here uses dampening or a pre-dampened head to control it. I might play around with an evans dry or remo powerstroke at some point. I saw Gadd uses the remo quite a lot but his sound seems quite dry on most recordings I've heard.