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Originally Posted by smithy269  Jeff Ocheltree has a DVD called "Trust your ears" where he talks about his experience teching for Bonham. Haven't seen it in a while, but from memory on the kick drum, I believe it was was basically a 2 ply coated on the batter, and 1 ply coated on resonant side for the maple kits. They also used a felt strip under the resonant and batter heads. The resonant side was tuned higher than the batter head. |
This is EXACTLY correct-
Remo Emperor on the batter side, single play medium weight head (Ambassador coated) on the resonant side. Tuned tighter than you'd expect with felt strips to mute the resonance just a bit.
You are correct sir!