[COLOR="DarkRed"]I'm asking for a reso head which wouldn't require a lotta tension, for the sake of the health of those B & B lugs more than anything else. I would feel very "walking on eggshells" if I ever used a regula Amb on there.....it would be asking for trouble. I feel prickly enough using clear 1-plys...I still think they are too heavy.....[/COLOR]
Well....it would be "walking on eggshells" if you tensioned the bottom heads really high......I've tried the Bonham/bigband method of tuning, the bebop method of tuning them up as high as they will go, and found that my drums sound best with the heads tuned the same top and bottom and at a moderate to low tension......that shouldn't kill the B&B lugs I would think.....its not the head thickness that kills them, its the high tension.