Venting

[Tiki]

Hello Gang, I'm looking for input on venting a bass drum.  I have ordered a new bass drum shell and was thinking about the hardware needed to complete it. Looking at the variety of vent fittings/grommets ect.. I was wondering what is really needed. After spending some time looking through MD to see what was being used I came across an ad for Monolith drums. I noticed they use slots for venting.
So does anyone here have a theory on this subject? The rest of my kit uses .5 inch vents and work well but with the new BD we are looking at moving a much more substantial amount of air. The new shell is 26X16.

Also any head recomendations? I like the powerstroke 3 on my current 22 inch BD so I was going to go with that but the larger size is new territory for me.

Thanks for sharing any info,Tiki out.........!

[drummer1202]

http://community.drummercafe.com/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=15323;start=msg171825#msg171825

Some info in this thread- I don't know nothin about it.

[felix]

Well my opinion on this is you probably don't need any venting on a bass drum if you like a port on the front head.

Now maybe you like a closed front head.  Is your kick a virgin?  If not maybe take out the tom arm mounting plate and see if you hear a difference with the larger hole in the shell.

Personally, even with a 26, I would NOT vent the shell or even worry about extra vents.  And personally I don't like the drying out effect that vents enhance.

I'm sure monolith has a good reason for their vents and if you like the sound of their drums go for it!  But I basically let the front head port and different sizes there of do the job of vents.