On my 22" 3-ply Gretsch, I use a Remo Muff'l Ring with a Pinstripe batter head. It sounds great -- warm, boomy, and rich.

On my 20" Club Date, I use a felt strip under the batter head. She sings.

I'm rarely mic'ed, so the toms and snare are wide open. I'm trying to replicate the drum sound from "Live at Leeds." My Slingerland bass drum came with a small block of styrofoam taped to the shell and just barely touching the batter head. It provides a fantastic ring-free boom.

On other sets, I have used blue foam packing material (with the divots) on the inside of the bass drum, held to the shell by the tom post and telescoping spurs.

From day one I used felt strips in all my drums on both the batter and reso heads (Ludwig Hollywood kit with a Supra). I guess as a kid I thought I wanted to get rid of all the "ring". (My bass has an Aquariun package that included a ported reso, a batter with built-in dampening ring and a pillow. It has the deep "thud" sound I like.) About three years ago I was giving my kit a thorough cleaning and I decided to replace all the tom batters with Remo Emperors...I kept the original 1963 Weathermasters on the reso sides. I put the toms, and the Supra, back together without any felt strips and...WOW...the kit came alive! Even the Supra's inherent ring sounds wonderful. I can't believe how I was choking down the drums all these years and what I was missing. Now I let'um sing!

Ps3 bass drum batter head,felt strip barely touching and a small piece of mole skin where the beater contacts the head,felt strip on the reso.Snare drum,coated ambassador batter,Ludwig weathermaster snare side.Internal muffler barely touching on on the snare,with a little gaff tape sometimes.Toms,coated ambassadors batter side,clear reso side.A little gaff tape sometimes.

I played a kit one time,and the guy had felt strips on all the drums,batter and reso side.Bass drum had felt AND duct tape,..like playing a cardboard box,but the cardboard sounds better.Just my opinion.

Steve B

Felt strip on both bass batter. Maybe a touch of built in muffler on snare if it has one. That is all.

Thats why pianos have lids that open, brass and woodwinds have bells, strings have hollow bodies. Open and resonant. Dead drums do not project well especially above amplification. Pretty sure that's why most teenage drummers have dimpled heads and broken sticks. Heads are tuned too loose, have to play them too hard to be heard. That and the exuberance of youth!

Felt strip on my bass drum. Depends on the snare, either none or built in muffler just touching or a 2 inch round swatch of leather on the batter. I don't muffle my toms.

felt on everything once in in a while a zring on snare i bought a sonor snare at pawn shop and it has moon gel it sound pretty dam good

Moongel - often cut into very small bits placed on the head between tension rods. Felt strip on the base.

jim

bass drum - felt is my current choice but superkick ii heads or even a ported reso head work

toms - internal mufflers slightly touching the heads or moongel

snare - moongel or a small towel on the edge