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A new level of excellence! This head features a unique aramid fiber/polyester lamination process, resulting in superior performance. It delivers high durability, yet promotes a softer, more traditional snare drum feel with superior tone
Instrument: Marching-Snare
Finish: Gold
Attack: Very Defined
Tone: Warm
Sustain: Very Focused
Feel: Moderate
Durability: Extreme
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Evans Snare Head Aramid Fiber Batter
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Registered: March 2008
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yoyojack
Registered: March 2008
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Review Date: 8/23/2005
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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EXCELLENT Feel, Great look, warm tone, great for soloing
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Ringy, window for good sound is small, high maintenence, durability issues
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My line used these heads with Evans MX7 resonant head on 14x12 Pearl FFX Championships. These are great looking heads. The rich gold color looks vintage and classy, and it doesn't show blemishes anywhere near as bad as white or black heads. This head's feel is Golden (har har). This head has pretty much the best feel on the market. The head has a warm tone, so it doesn't sound overly thin and harsh.
This head does have its drawbacks. Even though it doesn't have an overly thin sound, it can sometimes be really thick. This head isn't really good for a line to use. This head also rings a lot, but the fact that we used MX7s may have contributed. The window to find a good sound is rather small, and requires a lot of cranking to make it, so tuning it properly and not letting it sit for a while may lead to a broken head.
The Feel, look, and sound are excellent for Soloing, and I wouldn't use anything else for that purpose, but I wouldn't use it in a line.
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Review Date: 10/9/2005
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 8
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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NIce sound for solo, COLOR, good articulation
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Not good for a line, you have to crank it like a tabletop,
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I really like this head for my personal snare. If you can crank it, it sound really good and has nice articulation. You can combine it with a mx5 or mx7 to get the best sound. But, another negative is that you absolutely NEED an Evans staccato disk for your bottom head or you will get a ring like crazy.
I gave this a recomendation. But only for solo/personal use. They have a demo of it on the website.
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AlabamaDrummer
Registered: April 2008
Location: Alabama, United States
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Review Date: 5/20/2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $35.00
| Rating: 9
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Great feel, great sound if tuned properly
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Really has to be cranked, too thick sounding on a line if poorly tuned
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This heard has many positve aspects, as well as negative ones.
In order to really sound good, they need to be cranked up to a pretty high level, and if tensioned quickly they have a certain tendancy to pull. It's much better to tune them to a reasonable tension and then play on them for a few rehearsals before cranking. Another thing about tuning...if you don't tension these heads a lot, they can sound really thick, and rimshots especially will have this nasty, "chlop" kind of sound (NOT GOOD if your line isn't together). However, when you take them up to that really risky high tension, they have a nice, dry, yet still slightly warm tone that is very full. The best way I can describe it is that you dont hear a top and bottom head and a hollow shell, but the drum is full of sound.
Durability wise, these heads are phenomenal. We marched basically a whole season with the same ones on (the end of 04, and up until the first competition in 05). Why? They held up. Our center snare's drum had a little hole in the top head, and it still sounded great. Before competitions though, we changed them. They were beat to hell and looked like they had been run over by a steamroller 50 times, but I think that if we left them on the drums, they'd still be playable today.
The feeing of these is really nice. Its a softer, more mylar like feel, much like the max series heads. Overall, if you're going to be soloing and want a different sound, you won't be disappointed. Id say go ahead and march these too, but you have to be very parient with them. We use them at my school for the whole fall season, except when we go to regionals and nationals in Indianapolis (RCA Dome). We switch to MX Whites for more projection.
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"I wonder if a classical music composer ever intentionally composed a piano piece that was physically impossible to play and then stuck it away in a trunk to be found years after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." -George Carlin
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Review Date: 7/7/2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Positive aspects of the product (pros):
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Great Sound, Durable, Good Feel
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Ugly Color
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I don't think there is a head that sounds better on a Pearl 13" than this one. I have been using these for about two years on my personal snare, with one pulling on me after it was almost past the rim. (It's time had come) Bushwackers also used it in 05 on their line for possible one of the crispest sounding snarelines I have heard.
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