what is the head of the kick drum?
Tuning and Tone. Tuning the kick drum is hugely important before you start recording, and there are a lot of different sounds that you can get from any one kick drum. The resonant head is what gives a drum its tone, if you take the resonant head completely off to only hear the batter side. You will get a lot of beater attack from the kick pedal and in turn, youâll lose some of the âbloomâ.