Remo ambassadrs white coated on top, clear ambassadors on bottom, powerstroke 3 smooth white on batter side, logo original gretsch head on the front.

It could depend on the kind of music you play.

I play strictly modern jazz on my RBs, with fairly high tuning and no dampening.

For me nothing beats calf heads all around, or, at least, on batters, but they're expensive and require proper seating and constant retuning for humidity changes.

Fiberskyn batters with coated Amb resos and Emperor snare reso come closest to calf to my ear, especially on the bass drum.

Ron

You can't go wrong with Remo Ambassadors but I'm also a big fan of Aquarian American Vintage heads. I have them on my Gretsch RB kit and they sound fantastic. Good luck.

I just put Aquarian American Vintage heads on my Slingerlands and boy do they sound great!

cool guys thanks for the help on this one!

this gives me exactly the info i needed!

holy cow, is this an original 3 ply bop kit? original bass drum or converted floor tom?

either way, what a georgeous kit! congrats!

Thanks, It's a delight to play, though in the in the year I've owned it, it hasn't yet left my music room as I haven't had a gig worthy of the pack & schlepp!

I've been gigging lately with a 1969 Premier bop set... also a delight to play and much lighter to schlepp than my former gigster... a beloved, but heavy Sonor Phonic 18/12/14 set.

It's a totally original 3-ply 'Progressive Jazz' with 20" b.d.

I don't play the matching 3-ply 4" s.d. in the pic... opting instead for a 6-ply, 5.5"(below)... though I have other snares that I prefer. (pics below)

Ron

hey royal, awesome kit.

and clever want to mount the 12 tom!

That way of mounting the ride tom is the solution to being a lefty and making no new holes in the b.d.; with the added advantage of bringing the tom closer to the center axis of the b.d.

Ron