![]() This means you can practise away in just about any environment without disturbing anyone else - and meanwhile save your ears, reducing fatigue. There is no need to change the resonant heads, and the mesh heads shift just enough air to engage with the bottom heads so that you retain clear pitch differences between your drums. It's natural to tension them quite high in order to get a firmer feel and more bounce, which allows you to play double-stroke rolls and so on with ease, even on your floor tom and bass drum. ![]() ![]() Silent Strokes are single-ply, and as there are double and triple-ply mesh heads on the market for really heavy hitters you have to balance the cost and extra sensitivity against durability. When tensioned fairly loosely the sticks/ beater sink in and you might fear breaking through the mesh. In any case, the touch is more realistic than with a hard practice pad set or rubber pads laid on the batters. This takes a little getting used to, but after a while you realise it is largely the reduction in sound that fools you into thinking they also feel different. "The mesh heads shift just enough air to engage with the bottom heads so that you retain clear pitch differences between your drums" You can though crank them right up and get closer to the firmer, harder feel of a normal head, although it always remains pingy. Although the material is basically the same Polyester, it is floppier, and when tensioned the feel is relatively soft and springy, particularly at low to mid-tensions. Seating and tensioning follows the same procedure as with any other plastic head. As with standard heads, the metal hoops on the bass drum heads are a bigger gauge. Sizes range from 6" to 18" for toms and snares, and 18" to 24" for bass drums. The quality seems excellent - the fine weave of the mesh is perfectly even, and the heads feel strong, like regular heads. You can see the glistening resin in the channel, although it seems to be less thick and you don't get that scary cracking sound you hear when first seating a new conventional Remo. The resulting woven fabric is slotted and glued into the identical aluminium collar hoop as with other Remos. The same Polyester plastic (Mylar) is used, but instead of being formed as a continuous smooth sheet, it is extruded as a fine thread, which is then woven. Silent Stroke heads are made in a similar way to Remo's standard WeatherKing heads.
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