Favorite marching drumheads

[QuadraticBeats]

I'm a remo fan for marching percussion, but have a few evans heads on my drumest and find them to be nice.

Snares- Hard to say, given that there tends to be little difference between the mylar, kevlar, and etc. subtypes. I prefer the Black Max over the others for the reasons that it's a bit darker and is still nice to play on.

For the side head, I think I'd like a somewhat loosely tuned clear marching snare side head- I prefer a drum that still sounds distinctly like a snare drum, and most of this has to do with tuning- ever since our percussion instructor "really" tuned our yamahas, I suddenly found myself able to respect them as a very good brand of marching drums.

Tenors- Renaissance Emperor. All the frickin way. Suede Emperor is pretty nice too.

Basses- Dark but articulate sound is what I like- a combination of "oomph" and definition. As a result, I'd probably go with the new "power-max" bass heads, ebony heads tuned up high enough to have definition, or perhaps the new renaissaince or ebony suede marching bass drum heads- those may be relatively limited to indoor percussion, though.

[G'townPIT]

I actually prefer the Buffalo hide drum heads. The native americans knew what they were doing. I actually find it hard to decide between the more traditional bufffalo and the newer horse hide. The horse hide just adds the giddy-up in your sound for a more crisp and tactful rebound. While the buffalo's are just a classic drum head, either way you can't go wrong. You can have your high tech kevlars, but I'll take the natural choice any day.

[thesnareguy]

Remo Remo Remo.

[thesnareguy]

White Max Snare

 

Suede Emperor Quad

 

Bass.........Ambassador?

[Lustra.exe]

Remo - Snare

 

Evans - Bass

 

Remo?- Tenors

[EODrillDesigner98]

 

 

For Marching Percussion->EVANS

[Keyboard_Countessa]

As a pit percussionist I have no real opinion, but I do know that our percussion director prefers Evans drumheads.

[Disappearer221]

Id say Ludwig Silver Dots on everything. Those heads ROCK.

[TX Suh-nare]

I like the low sound out of drums, so mostly Remo doesn't do that well.

 

If you want the higher, table top sound, then Remo your way up there, but the thick, low drum sound is best exemplified on Evans-equipped Pearl (wood drums, don't go carbon-ply)