PP Mguire
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I currently have hydraulics and IMO when recording they aren't that great for tone. Live? The best. Temp differences don't mess with them as bad as regular heads. I also kept set on for 8 years, half in storage and when I brought them back out tuned up like new. Bought new ones for live playing last year, and now that I'm not in that band I'm going to move to G2s for some home recording.Yea, it's a bit ironic they'd bring in a drummer of that caliber to play drums of almost zero caliber. Mike Portnoy was a cool sit-in too, and he got to go pretty Portnoy-y, but yea, Arin could have brought in a 4-piece and would still probably have too much stuff. I agree with your opinion about the coated sound, and I think it would have been good to go with a solid set of clear hydraulic heads. I use those currently, and get a lot of nice res out of them while still retaining body from a combination of the 2-ply heads and the drum shells. I like coated when I started, but it wasn't long before I realized clear was a much better way to go.
Wackerman uses fusion sizes, so putting coated heads on those make them sound like cardboard Otherwise, great drummer and I can't wait to hear what the rest of the album sounds like. Syn just made that song a shred fest lol.