Finally!!! I already try to convince people from the fact that there's NO oil in these heads for more than 40 years. I write for a Dutch musicmagazine in the Netherlands and did an article about different type of drumheads a couple of years ago. After publishing the editors got emails from several readers because I didn't catagorize the pinstripes under "hydrolic heads"....😁 I didn't, because they are NOT! What you see (the rainbow colors) are so called Newton rings, caused by light through the two thin plies. BTW, maybe next time take an older head! 😉
Evans Hydraulics have the oil between the plies. Remo Pinstripes only have the treatment around the edges. The Ebony Pinstripes have a thicker top ply and a thinner bottom one.
That’s explains why the Ebony Pinstripes have a different feel. I always suspected they were thicker overall. My drums sounded like cardboard boxes with the Ebony Pinstripes. Great for a practice kit and tuned low for a low noise kit.
Around 1999 Remo changed the construction of the PinStripe to have a more open tone. This is when they stopped adhering the plies together, and started using what they called a "dry layer" of "ring reducing agent". This info is in the Modern Drummer with Thomas Lang on the cover. I want to say it was some time in 1999 or 2000.
Yeah I preferred them when they were less resonant before the change. I tried them recently and was confused as to why they were so resonant and my friend said they changed them but didn’t tell me how so I am glad I seen your comment.
I had old Pinstripes made before 1999, and my cheap Sonor Force 507 with that heads sounded like a Ludwig. Now, with new Pinstripes sounds like a cheap drum kit.
I also always thought that there was some kind of oily substance in there. The wording by Remo is also a little misleading, as they state that Pinstripes have “an overtone reducing agent applied between the 2 plies”. Based on your experiment, it looks more like there’s an overtone reducing agent applied to the bottom of the top ply. If you could do Ebony Pinstripes next, I’m curious to know if the thicker ply is on the bottom or the top. The other interesting thing is that clear Emperors don’t refract light in this way and produce oily colours. So it’s that rough surface coating on the bottom of the top ply that’s doing it. Thanks!
The ring reducing agent is around the perimeter. It's sometimes on the top or bottom ply. I even had one come through where the fuzzy stuff was on the outside, under the playing surface.
Remo must have changed the specs on Pinstripe heads. I used to hate Pinstripes but the newer versions sound very similar to Emoerors. I have a set of Ebony Pinstripes that truely sound like cardboard boxes. Pinstripes always felt very “thuddy” to me, even the clear ones. My suspicions are that at some point Remo stopped gluing the 2 heads at the perimeter. I never throw used drum heads away but I DO have a 22” Pinstripe that I removed one ply from to use as a reso head. I’ll have to dig that head up and see if the edges are glued.
@@icomedia1 Hi again, after we spoke I got a skapel and carefully cut the top layer off completely leaving me with a 7.5 clear reso skin. I got the idea from your video, the top skin when cut on an angle with a sharp tool cut easily without harming the bottom layer.Then I just cut the little pieces around the hoop with scissors and ripped them out by hand little pieces. . Thanks anyway bro , you should try it....I did it on Remo Encore, cheaper pinstripe. 🥁✌
for anyone who may not have already know this... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ot31HbyOlWE.html - the whole video is really interesting and informative, but :38 to 1:08 is where the focus is
Thank you for the upload and the good explanation you made, but sorry brother... It is big sin to sacrifice brand new drum head... For some people like me that drum heads are not very accessible... Instead to do that video, you can easy show how the drum heads are made in the factory of REMO. Anyway, thank you for the video, cheers!
