I prefer the coated but we're about to get colored floodlights and one shining up from below might be coolest with a pinstripe to let more light through. Thoughts?
Waaaay back in the day, I used clear black dot CS on my snare batter. Really didn't care for the sound as I recall, but I've gotten a lot better at tuning over the years, so....?
They sound shrill as fuck. I use a bronze snare, though, so...
I'm sure I have an opinion laying around here somewhere. Just can't find it.
Colored Fleshlights, you say?
*activates priest-signal*
If you aren't using brushes (which none of us are) the coating is mostly useless. People have just grown accustomed to that as a snare head.
Quote from: RAGER on September 25, 2014, 03:08:36 PM
I'm sure I have an opinion laying around here somewhere. Just can't find it.
Quote from: mutantcolors on September 25, 2014, 05:49:31 PM
If you aren't using brushes (which none of us are) the coating is mostly useless. People have just grown accustomed to that as a snare head.
Oh, there it is. Yeah, there's no sonic difference, especially in "our" kind of music
I use a clear mylar marching head on my snare. it's a 2 ply reinforced jobby with a 1" 7 mil dampening ring on the underside of the head. It's actually the total opposite of what Jake described (dead-ish, warm sounding, with an seemingly inherently lower pitch) but that's because it's purpose build for a 1970's marching snare, being played in a line with other 1970's marching snares. For recording I'll take a coated emperor every time, but they die (or "bowl out") too quickly for me to use for regular practice.