Mastiff
Senior Member
I have an Acrolite aluminum snare and finally got around to replacing the reso head which was on it since I bought it (used). It was a Ludwig "x-tra light" (or something like that). It looked fine on, but looked quite worn out when removed. I replaced it with an Evans clear 300. Now I notice that the snare is seemingly 10 times louder than before. It's super piercing and swamps out the rest of the kit. Any ideas on this? Is it a worn head thing, or something about the difference between the ones I chose? Maybe tuning? I haven't really played with a lot of gear in my drum life thus far.