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00:00Today we have a fun little package from Ben and Cody over at Sounds Like a Drum.
00:06Well, actually, I don't know if you would consider the package itself fun,
00:10but what we're gonna do with what's inside the package will be fun.
00:14Hey everybody, you're probably not expecting to see me here. My name's Cody and Ben and I at Sounds Like a Drum
00:20have been dying to do a partnership, a little collaboration with David for a while.
00:24We've been friends for a bit and today's finally our opportunity to do that. On our channel
00:28we focus on drums, drum tuning, drum tone, getting sounds, and also a lot of DIY hacks and things like that,
00:35which definitely kind of dovetailed in with finding something we could do together with David.
00:39My favorite drum head from Evan's Drumheads is G12. It's a one-ply coated head, and we've experimented a lot with them.
00:46We've modified them a little bit, but there were a couple of things we wanted to try out that were a little above our
00:51skill set in terms of what we could do here at our studio.
00:54So we decided to hit up David, see if he wanted to get into it with us, because we definitely know
00:58that he knows how to do, among other things, drilling holes in just about everything.
01:03Now Evans has been doing drum heads that have what they call dry vents in them for a long time.
01:08They're primarily for snare drums. The vents are very small, and the idea is to release some air from inside of the drum
01:14to kind of dry out the sound, alleviate some overtones, and sort of focus the attack and the clarity and everything.
01:20But we wanted to know what would happen if we did that to the toms as well, and they don't offer anything like that.
01:25So it was down to us to pick our favorite drum head and then figure out how to put some holes in it.
01:30So here we have a brand new set of Evans G12 coated batter heads, and we're gonna fire these off to David, see what he comes up with.
01:37We're trying to figure out if we can get holes all the way around the edge to make it even response and even distribution of the venting, and we're gonna see what he comes up with.
01:44So that is my job for today's video. I need to figure out a way to put a bunch of tiny little holes in all these heads.
01:52And then for part two of this video over on the sounds like a drum channel.
01:56The plan is to test these against a regular factory set without any vent holes and see what kind of effect we've managed to achieve here.
02:02For the 10 inch head, we're gonna use a 16th of an inch hole, and we're gonna do 16 total of those, which just so happens to be the size and number of the actual HD dry.
02:17This is a 16th of an inch drill bit, and it fits perfectly inside the holes.
02:22For the 12 inch, we'll go with an eighth of an inch hole, which is a 16th bigger than 1 16th.
02:28And again, we'll go with 16 holes.
02:30Then for the 16 inch, we'll go with 3 16ths of an inch, which is a 16th bigger than an eighth.
02:36And again, we'll go with 16 holes.
02:38So with this plan, we're scaling the size of the hole to the size of the head and leaving the number of holes the same.
02:45I thought about doing the opposite and leaving the size of the hole the same and just adding more holes in the bigger size heads.
02:52But I think by scaling the size of the hole, we'll see more of a difference.
02:56And also laying out all of the same number of holes in each of the heads will be a little bit easier.
03:01So now let's test how to put some holes in some heads.
03:06I'm gonna use these leather punches and see if they cut through the head.
03:11This one's 3 16ths.
03:14Let's try that again.
03:17All right.
03:18Here's a 1 8th inch hole.
03:20And here is a 1 millimeter hole close to 1 16th.
03:26All of those punch through fine.
03:28But if we flip it over, you'll see that it leaves sort of a raised edge, which we don't want.
03:34And if we switch to a harder surface to punch on, that might help a little bit.
03:39The 3 16ths is clean on both sides.
03:43The 1 8th inch is a little mushed up.
03:45And same thing with the 1 millimeter.
03:47Not the cleanest.
03:48So let me try a few different things.
03:50I feel like I'm hitting too hard on the smaller ones.
03:53So that might help a little bit.
03:56All of those did really well.
03:58I just need to make sure not to hit it too hard.
04:00Now the 1 millimeter.
04:02And not so much luck with the 1 millimeter.
04:05So I'm happy with these two sizes.
04:07Let's try actually drilling the head.
04:10Drilling the holes wasn't the cleanest.
04:15But I tried a couple more things which were actually worse.
04:18So for the actual one, I decided to use the drill.
04:21So I'm sure there's a better way.
04:23But now let's move on to laying out the hole pattern.
04:29First up, I'm putting some tape around the edge of the head so I don't mark it up.
04:33And for the layout, I'm using this mat which I bought.
04:36But you can easily find free ones online you can print yourself.
04:41So I'll just center up the head and put some clear tape on the center so I can see through it.
04:46And then mark the center.
04:48Then I'll go around the head marking out each line for 8 evenly spaced holes.
04:57Then I'll just turn the head so that the marks we made are spaced in between the layout lines.
05:01And go around and mark again.
05:03Leaving us with 16 evenly spaced marks.
05:09From there, I'll take a straight edge.
05:11Line it up with the center and outer marks.
05:13And extend those lines.
05:23Then I took a set of calipers.
05:25And measure the actual HDDry and transfer that measurement onto the heads.
05:39Then you just go around and punch out all the holes.
05:42Making sure to remove the plug after each one.
05:44And there you go.
05:53That's how you turn any drum head into an HDDry.
05:56Let's go ahead and keep it moving to an HDDry.
06:21so i'm really proud of the 12 and the 16 those holes came out really clean and really nice
06:34the small holes on the 10 they look good from afar but they're far from good so i'm sure there's
06:40a better way to do those so if you have any ideas i'd love to hear now before i send these back to
06:46sounds like a drum i found these oval punches so let's grab an old head and make some funky
06:51shapes for them
06:52that should be interesting but as far as practicality goes making these isn't that hard
07:12laying out all the holes definitely takes the most time but if you think about it you can make these
07:18one time use them and then once you need new heads you can use the old ones as a template
07:23and that'll save a bunch of time since punching out the holes takes like a minute per head
07:27and then you can just keep the old heads as a template or just continue the cycle
07:31but sadly for me and luckily for you it's time for me to pass on these heads back to ben and cody
07:37over at sounds like a drum so they can do a proper comparison with these heads with the holes
07:42and the stock g12 so be sure to head over to their channel so you can hear how good or how bad these
07:49drum heads sound or if they'll break as soon as you play on them i hope they don't so that video will
07:55be linked in the description as well as in a pinned comment and should be popping up on the screen
08:01right now so be sure to head over to their video to see how these sound so that's it for this one
08:06that's not it for this one i need to give them the heads duh that should do
08:12hopefully that made it to them without any extra holes in the heads
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