I bought a bunch of good stuff off of craigs list last week. It included a standard cb 700 kit. It has all remo pin stripes an remo fiberskyn on the resonant side. I looked em up on Musicians friend and as far as I can tell they fiberskyn are suppose to be batter heads. They resemble real goat skin or calf skin. Does any one know anything about these fiberskyn heads.
Poppy
Fiberskyn are mostly used as batter heads or Resonant Bass heads. I like them, very warm sounding. I'm mostly an Emporer batter guy, but next head change is going to be Fiberskyn's.
Pull off the Fiberskyns and use an Ambassador for the resonant sides, that way you can experiment with the different heads.
Indeed - These are pretty cool skins for the right application. I put one on a 8" X 14" PorkPie maple shell snare and tuned it down low - Very fat sound on this deep shelled drum.
And I suppose if you wanted to control some of the ring, they would make good (and cool looking) kick reso heads.
[COLOR="DarkRed"]They are GREAT heads for medium to low tuning. I think they actually start losing their quality when you crank 'em tight on toms....although going tighter on a snare is still a pretty nice sound....just not tight as in peel-me-off-the-ceiling-crack-tight.
Beautiful for snares...the brushwork feel on 'em is like butter.
I find them a bit too heavy for res heads, unless as BD says you really are having resonance/ringing problems...but I agree they look smashing as a bass res if the color of the kit is right (i.e. earthtone-ish or black-ish....not blue, purple, or any of that sort).[/COLOR]
