Can a Heat Gun Revive Old Drum Heads? - Myth Busting with Drum Dog
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2024
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Every drummer knows the pain of buying new drum heads, it's not a cheap game to re-head an entire kit! But what if a simple trick could bring your old pitted heads back to life?
Drum hackers of the internet have shown us all videos of pits being removed from heads with a few passes of a heat gun, but do they REALLY revive the head? Does the sound come back, or is it all too little too late? Let's find out!
Contents (Quick navigation):
0:00 - Introduction
2:19 - The Heating!
7:43 - Sound Comparison
10:04 - Our Thoughts
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Yamaha Stage Custom Advantage - 22, 12, 16, 14x5.5" Snare
Zildjian Avedis 14" Hats
Sabian HHX Evolution 17" Crash
Paiste Signature 20" Dry Ride
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Ah the perfect video to watch as I boil my guitar strings
LMAO maybe get a second job!
@@duzgud ha ha, nah I have never done that 😂
Pretty damn surprised, to be honest. I've always heard about this technique but never seen it like this. Entertaining as always, dudes. Keep doing the damn thing.
From an engineering point of view, tightening the drum before shrinking it was probably a mistake. Just like window insulation film, it's actually shrinking when heated. So, I'd imagine if you set it on there slack and shrink it, you'd remove a great deal of that bowling, then tune it after it cools, of course.
Back in the late 1970s I used to heat up my drum heads in the oven at 200°F and watch them very close they never went bad I used to do all my single Pinstripe CS dots it saved me a lot of money when you were playing eight Toms it only took maybe a minute or two in the oven
It does work, depending on the material the head is made of. for example it works perfectly with Remo Ebony, but not at all with Evans Onyx.
I don’t have a heat gum, but I have taken the dimples out with a hair dryer. I’m not sure about a sound improvement, but there was visual improvement. It was fun watching your investigation. Thank you.
It definitely worked. They even sound better. Mindblowing!
never tried this technique yet and just discovered this recently, i was wondering if the heat will weaken the skin? or not really?
Better to loosen the head before heating.
Does the head need to be in tune? Or without tension?
They mention just before they begin the process of heating the first head (snare). They weren't totally sure but it made sense to them for the head to be tight before applying heat.
very good video...
Why did you add the ellipsis? lol...
@@jeremysanchez8118 boomers love ellipses
Those heads sounded infinitely better after the heating, I'd have to say this is myth confirmed.
I've tried this twice but I did not put it on a drum, it did a little bit of good work considering I used hairdryer, but I totally destroyed already bad 2ply, also not mounted. Now I want to try once again with 2ply and with heat gun, also mounted this time
Yeah, it needs tension. Needs to stay mounted
@@carsonboi9326 will this also work with 2plys head? My students are cheap and dont want to buy new so they wait for me to change on my gig set instead do they can rebuy for cheap, i mean they are still working fine but sometimes i need to take of the dents and almost all of my batter heads are 2ply
@@jakubsychowski3539 yeah, you’ll be fine
If you really thought it was going to sound like a "brand new head" maybe you are a little dim.....But the heat gun obviously works for most cosmetic blemishes.
And the cost of a heat gun versus a new set of heads is...?
You can pick up the heat gun we used for a grand total of £15, cheaper than a new snare head 😎
Not much, but that question implies a false equivalence (fixed cost vs. variable cost). A heat gun, even a cheap one, is pretty much a once in a lifetime purchase, at least when compared to a lifetime of buying drum heads.
At the same time, one would have to be insane to imagine that by simply heating all your pitted, sagging, battle-scarred heads every time they won't tune up, they'll remain forever good as new (oh, how I wish...)
@@DrMackSplackem Good point!
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Chad Drummer: oh you're right, im glad i was corrected
My kit with 4 toms cost about 120 to replace all the batter heads. Heat gun about 25 bucks. The worst is cracking a cymbal! Drums are an expensive hobby.
Guitar strings: $6
2:04 perhaps try putting it in the oven?
My little nozzle can still cover a full head!
I’ve done this on my heads before. Albeit, mine were never in such bad condition. They were like, had a random pit here and there from where I hit a little too hard and didn’t want to see the dents!!!
A fair appraisal, however, still stretched too buggery. Not worth the time, unless you are flipping a kit. From a musicians point. Not good enough, go buy new.