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Ok, I've purchased new snare/tom/bass heads for my kit. Response 2's for the toms, power dot for the snare, SKII for the bass and all the reso's for everything. I read somewhere that you do not need to "crack" aquarian heads (specifically the coated heads). Is this true? I thought "cracking" the heads was a typical mounting technique  ? Thanks! |
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2005, 08:01 PM » |
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No! If you read about 4 or 5 modern drummer issues back, The representative from Aquarian wrote a special response suggesting strongly not to do this, it can damage the film, and even the bearing edge.
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2005, 09:12 PM » |
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"Cracking" drumheads is usually only a step when using 2-ply Remo heads, if I'm not mistaken. It helps loosen the glue between plies to break it in faster.
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2005, 09:31 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2005, 10:19 AM » |
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I've never been a proponent of "cracking heads" for ANY manufacturer. Like percussionmonkey said, that can damage the bearing edge and/or head. Why in the world would one want to torque down the head so tight anyway? It's true that a new head may take a couple days to "seat", but SO WHAT! As the tension/sound changes over time (as any head will do), just give the lugs a tweak, as required.
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2005, 10:29 AM » |
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The "cracking" is in reference to Remo, for the most part. All it means is that you tension the heads to the point that you get all the pops and cracks out before you setttle on a particular tension. For Remo, this is needed because of the glue loosening around the flesh hoop of the drumhead. If you don't do it, then at any point in time, the glue can loosen and your drumhead will immediately be out of tune.
All of this isn't a big deal; the process isn't hard. You don't have to tighten the drumheads super tight. Just mounting the drumhead and applying a little pressure to the center of the head, using the heel of your hand, is enough to get most of the pops out ... if it's going to loosen easily. Anything needed more than that ... well, you are asking for trouble ... and the drumhead is defective in my opinion.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2005, 12:54 PM » |
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Thanks for the input all...that helps a lot!!!  |
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2005, 04:04 AM » |
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Read my procedure here: Basic Drumset Tuning Concepts - Stretching / Mounting NEW DrumheadsHere I explain how I seat a drumhead. It's in no way the same as cracking. You simply mount the drumhead, apply a little pressure to get a good seat ... and you are good to go. |
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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2005, 09:00 AM » |
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According to Bob Gatzen's tuning video, the best way to seat a head is to quickly run a blow dryer on hot around the edges of the head after tightening it.
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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2005, 05:13 PM » |
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What they said. You don't need to crack Aquarians.
That's only needed for Remos, which may have some excess glue in the rings that needs to be broken loose, so your head won't go out of tune unexpectedly while you're playing.
With Aquarians, you only need to get the head to conform to your bearing edge. You can speed up this process by overtightening or using the hair dryer procedure. Or, you can simply tune the head. If you do it this way, it'll be a week or so before the head conforms to the bearing edge.
In my experience, Aquarians tune up easily and well. No special tricks are needed.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2005, 08:33 AM » |
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With Aquarians, you only need to get the head to conform to your bearing edge. You can speed up this process by overtightening or using the hair dryer procedure. Or, you can simply tune the head. If you do it this way, it'll be a week or so before the head conforms to the bearing edge.
In my experience, Aquarians tune up easily and well. No special tricks are needed.
I bought a hi-energy for my acro, and it took about 4 days until it sounded nice and that was just with normal tuning. |
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2005, 12:41 PM » |
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I just reheaded my whole kit with Aquarian performance 2's and a hi energy and it sounds sweet. I've had to do a bit of tweaking as I've played on them, but no hint of cracking as I tuned them up.
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