00:00that should do and here they are I'm so excited about this
00:14not one of the production heads David having fun sounds like a drum our David
00:33are classic and yeah here they are oh yeah yep exactly what we're
00:44talking about okay if you're not sure what's going on right now that means you
00:57haven't watched part one of this video head over through the link below to our
01:00David RS channel David is the other half of this project watch it first stop now
01:06and go watch that first and then you'll understand what's happening here
01:09seriously here go here watch this video first or none of this is gonna make any
01:14sense all right we've got factory fresh coated g12s on the whole kit right now
01:25let's start out with what that sounds like
01:44so
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02:29now coated g12s are basically my favorite batter head for pretty much
02:49everything they're a little bit thicker than a normal 10 mil batter head the coating mellows them out in a
02:54nice kind of way they're a little more durable than a thinner head tons of sustain
02:58while still having a little bit more mass than your standard 10 mil batter head
03:02this makes perfect sense in terms of the physics of it because we've got more mass
03:05and once we get it moving it's gonna sustain for longer it's 20% thicker than a
03:10standard single ply batter head so there's more room for more sustain and
03:14that's kind of the maybe my favorite thing about these heads you know they match
03:18durability and sustain and tone in a really beautiful way now we do a lot of
03:21experiments here and we have some tools but sometimes you just don't have the
03:25right tools or skills for the job and that's where our friend David comes in he
03:29has built up a amazing channel full of just like wild experimentations a lot of
03:33which are centered around drums and a lot of which are centered around drilling
03:36holes in things and you've seen a hundred rivets in a symbol and his low volume
03:41cowbell it looks vaguely like a cheese grater and we decided to hit him up you
03:47know we've been kind of pals on the internet for a while and wanted to do
03:50something with him and so we sent him a set of our favorite heads to kind of
03:53see if we could adjust the tone and dial him in a bit of a different way and now
03:58you're going to get to hear the result
04:14all right so now we've installed the modified heads that we just got from
04:18David they are tuned to exactly the same pitch as the other ones were in the
04:22exact same place so we're not gonna go through a lot of tunings we're just doing a
04:25straight-up comparison of the behavior of these vent hole modified batter heads
04:55so
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06:53now looking at these heads David had a really great idea which is to
07:19not do what you would expect based on vented heads that exist in the market of
07:24having the vents all be the same size and instead he chose to graduate them
07:27from smaller holes on the ten that are nearly the size you'd expect from a
07:31factory vented head down to fairly large ones like you could almost stick a pencil
07:35through on the floor tom now this makes perfect sense because we're dealing with a
07:38whole lot more air that needs to get out of a floor tom there's tons more space in
07:42there so if we want to have that same quickness we do have to graduate them
07:46similar to the way some people choose different head thicknesses or things like that for their
07:49toms what this results in is really really even response from very differently sized drums
07:55so they still sound like a family even though these modifications have been made to
07:58the batter head where a lot of our tone is coming from now we'd like to do a back-to-back
08:02comparison so you can really hear the difference in the change in the note length
08:06but also you can hear how the sort of tone of it is not that different it's almost
08:10more like a gate or something like that
08:40so you can hear the difference between the ears and the ears and the ears but they know the
08:42that one is so much more like that
08:44so you can hear the difference in your mouth's mouth's mouth on the back-to-back
08:47and when you turn around to the right-to-back
08:52just can hear how the sound is coming from now on the right-to-back
08:56because this is very interesting that there are two parts of the right-to-back
11:23maybe non-drummer or non-musician even,
11:25might not necessarily detect
11:27that there's much of a difference here.
11:28They might not detect that there's a difference at all.
11:30But us as artists and as creatives
11:32who are trying to make music, trying to make art,
11:34and trying to find a sound that we love,
11:36that inspires us to play better or differently that day,
11:40these subtle things really do matter.
11:42And where we end up with our sound
11:44is sort of an amalgamation of the little choices we make,
11:46whether it's the thickness or the ply count of your heads,
11:49the tip on your sticks,
11:51or modifying the heads, taking material away,
11:54muffling them, putting rings on there.
11:56All of this stuff takes us to where we're going
11:58to get the sound that's gonna make us play
12:00and create the way that we want to.
12:02A great way to think about these choices,
12:04and both the individual choices and also the collective
12:07that is greater than the sum of the parts,
12:09is it's kind of like presets.
12:11We could get close to these sounds spending time tuning
12:15in the same way that you can get close with two sticks
12:17that aren't quite the same
12:18or two heads that aren't quite the same.
12:19But on the other hand, we were able to swap out
12:22all these batters and tune them to pitch
12:24and have this sound in about 10 minutes.
12:27And if I was trying to modify the heads in real time
12:29that were already on there and go back and forth
12:32and listen and change and listen and change,
12:33it's gonna eat up a ton of time.
12:35Whereas if I brought a second set of heads to the studio,
12:38which I almost always do,
12:39just like an alternative if we need a different sound,
12:42swapping them out is super fast.
12:43And if they're heads I'm familiar with,
12:45I mean you really can't beat that.
12:46It's really a quick change that takes you
12:49into a whole different place.
12:50It's gonna make you make different decisions
12:52and they sound fantastic.
13:03Now if you're new to our channel here,
13:05this is kind of where we live.
13:07We're going after tone and sound
13:09and sometimes myth-busting and hacks
13:11and occasionally like products that help us
13:13get closer to a certain sound that we're after.
13:15It's all about experimentation and demystifying
13:18the challenges that exist for drummers,
13:20especially considering that this is an instrument
13:22where a lot of the time,
13:23tuning and tone take a backseat to technique
13:26and styles and things like that.
13:28Whereas you can't really take lessons in guitar
13:31without learning how to tune the guitar,
13:32but you can become a professional drummer
13:34without ever having spent much time
13:35thinking about how to tune the drums.
13:37On the other hand, if you are a long time viewer,
13:41this is kind of par for the course
13:42with things that we like to do here.
13:44But more importantly,
13:45I'm hoping you watch the first half of this, right?
13:48And you subscribe to David's channel too, right?
13:51Okay, good.
13:52Because he is one of the people on the internet
13:54that inspire us to do our own things.
13:57So we go and check him out,
13:58we've hung out, great person, exciting ideas.
14:02That's the place that we wanna be.
14:03We're thinking about experimentation,
14:05we're thinking about staying excited and inspired.
14:08And this has definitely done that for us here.
14:23That about wraps it up.
14:24Thank you so much for coming along on this crazy journey.
14:27I know it was a lot of information.
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14:54Love the patrons.
14:55Lastly, I should definitely ask you
14:58if you modify your batter heads,
15:00whether you're drilling holes in them or anything,
15:02but particularly anything permanent.
15:04Like we all put tape and stuff on there,
15:05but are you doing anything that you can't undo to them?
15:08Cause I would love to know.
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