| On something super-intimate like small combo jazz where a tom is up-front and large... you can definitely hear the difference in the final recording. But is it the wood as much as the construction?
How much difference between woods would be related to all the properties... hardness, curing, number of plys, how it was joined, what was used to finish/seal it, how the hardware is mounted and how the drum is suspended from the mount. I mean it gets just as silly as trying to pin down this question with a guitar builder... sooo many variables.
But in say a hard rock situation, there's much more traffic to deal with and as a result it's a much smaller factor... naturally this all depends on the music/arrangement. |