EVANS Hydraulic Black Tom Batter Drum Head 14 in.

I recently purchased a hardly used set of Pearl Forum Drums. Replaced the 10" tom with Evans Hydralic head. I use Evans on all my drums. They tune perfect and sound great.

Perfect heads for Blues and Blues rock,

Wanted a deep bass sound for this 18" DW concept Tom. I believe the hydro was just too thick. Was hoping for a good low end response, but it was flat.

Very easy to tune and produces excellent tone.

I couldn't be more disappointed, after spending hours trying to get a good sound from these heads I have given up. They sound like the are completely covered in duct tape.

I knew I needed a two-ply head in black. I emailed customer service at Aquarian, Evans and Remo. Aquarian never bothered to get back to me. Evans and Remo did. What I learned from my research, was that ALL of the Remo two-ply heads that came in black, were manufactured with the black ply on top, clear ply on the bottom, whereas ALL of the Evans two-ply heads that came in black, were manufactured with with the clear ply on top, black ply on the bottom. Why is this important? Just this: many end-users' feedback strongly advised against using drum heads with the black ply on top. Reason being as the drum head naturally wears out, the black finish will transfer over onto the sticks, then over to the snare drum batter head and cymbals. If you are ever required to employ brushes on the snare drum, maintaining a pristine white batter coated surface may be important to you. Additionally, since both sheet bronze and cast style cymbals are actually made up of dozens of tiny grooves, you probably don't want this black finish clogging your cymbal grooves. Just a thought.