what style of music do you play and what is the head set up right now?

pin stripe batter, white coated remo reso, have only recently gone to a full reso (with mic hole) the pin stripe fairly newish addition. been curious about the emad types of heads.

pin stripe batter, coated remo reso, have only just gone to a full reso head (with mic hole) and batter is newish, curious about these emad type heads. the music i play is rock, fairly solid stuff where a shirt fronting kick driving it would be better than this flat slap with no depth that i have put up with for years, i do fear the drums just not up to it as other kicks i have, all be it 20'' seem to have more punch even with dubious head set ups.

I'd suggest going for the Aquarian Super Kick dampened head and something a little heavier on the front, i.e. Aquarian Regulator, Fiberskyn, or coated Emperor, all with a 6" hole offset from center. Batter tuned low-as low as you can get it, maybe even leaving a little ripple in the head. The front head tuned a little higher than that. No other muffling. It's really a matter of tuning the drum and how you play it. I've had this sort of setup before with a puff beater and it sounds great. Round and punchy. A harder beater will be more focused and louder.

You want to make that thing thump dude . i would put a aquarian super kick (ONE) with an aquarian ported regulator reso bass head . with that you will not need to add any additional muffling , pillows , felt stips ect junk like that . i stand by aquarian bass heads i use them and sell them .

My Purewood has the Gretsch logoed Ebony reso and an EMAD batter (18/22) and it is thunder with that nice thud. My new USA Custom 18" bd has the stock Permatone heads.....the batter has the stripe. Man, that little drum rocks! I'm impressed with how it tunes up = low, medium and high.

I've heard good reports about the Aquarian 'superkick' as mentioned above.

EMADS are good because you get two dampening foams (narrow and wide) or you can leave them open....three choices with one head.

...and as trivial as it may seem, changing out the metal hoops for wood cuts out some of the harsh overtones and noise that have always driven me nuts with that era drum.

But that could all just be in my head.

aquarian super kick 1 (single ply) for the batter.

tune the batter head medium loose and have a friend play the kick while you tune the front head for tone/resonance.

I like the superkick 2 also, haven't tried a superkick1.