Nice playing Tommy a beautiful kit. Do u gat flack from soundmen for the full front head? I will be going out with a new band soon and going no hole. It`s only a 20``but still. so much better feel
johnnyz!
THANK YOU!, and glad you enjoyed!, also... an excellent question! What I have found as of late is:
Sound companies nowadays are much more savvy with where drums/drummers have gone what with wide open toms, unported front/resonant bass drum heads, etc. But!, there is always that exception. For years "I fought the good fight" and played all unported bass drums, as well as the drums being unmuffled, save a felt strip under the resonant head. But, I would run into problems here and there with a sound company that just couldn't handle the drum without a port. They would literally panic! So, to make things easier for them and for me, I started "micro" porting the resonant head on ALL my bass drums. By "micro" I mean 3" in circumference. Pretty small all things considered. So... when the sound company puts a mike in front of or into the port... it LOOKS like there is no port! The benefits are twofold: The "feel" of the drum is retained as the 3" port is so small, most all the air is still inside the drum.. plus .. the sound company breathes easy as they SEE a port! It has worked tremendously for me with ZERO problems. That all said...
... there IS a 3" port in the bass drum head on this Rogers kit... but the mike placed in front of it blocks it from actually being seen, yet it is just large enough for the mike to sneak inside a taste. ( jeeze, that sentence conjures up some images! )
I'm attaching a pic of my 1997 Ludwig BR set in my practice room as you can clearly see the 3" port, and then one at a gig miked up. I put them all in that same spot. After some experimentation, that proved to be the best place for me. Hope this was of some help!
Tommyp