Evans EC2 SST Clear Batter Drumhead  

These heads have more attack than the coated G2's I was using before. Which is better for the music that I play.

High quality all the way.

There a little expensive, but well worn it.

Overall, fantastic heads. No muffling required. Even my snare's vibrate less now, because of the controlled sustain. I'll only use EC2 SST tom heads from now on. Get your own, you won't be disappointed!

First of all, my current drumhead setup is G2 coated batter side, and G1 clear resononant side. I could never find a sweet sound that I felt comfortable with, when it came to my 12" tom.

I would tune my G2's for hours, and hours on end. Sometimes resulting in needing Moongel just to get the sound I wanted. When I got this head I spent maybe 5-10 minutes tuning it before my jaw dropped after finding a sound that was perfect for me. The 12" alone inspired me to buy an alternate set.

Owned the 12" for a little over a month now, so I can't make an educated statement of the overall durability of the drumhead, but so far this thing is amazing. It takes little to no effort to tune, the dampening ring on these drum heads sounds way better than putting moongel on your drum heads.

Not the cheapest, but most definetely worth giving them a try.

Overall, I love this drumhead. Made my 12" tom sound purely amazing. I'm not saying go out and buy the entire set blindly without knowing what they sound like, but I would go as far as to say every drummer should at least give one of these EC2 drumheads a try. For only 10-20$ it maybe exactly what you're looking for to change the way your drums sound.

Replaced the factory Ludwig heads (which sounded good but would not last long) on an Epic 6 piece power kit.

The EC2's are a  good upgrade. They sound great and look good. I am suprised that they have, what appears to be, oil between the plies. The specs listed them as a 2 ply head but I was under the impression that the hydraulics were the oil heads. Anyway, they are very bright and loud for a 2 ply. They are on my studio kit and I had to pick up some moon gels to dampen them. No complaints though. I'll have to wait and see how long they hold up to 2 rehearsals per week and 2 gigs per month of being beat on with Vic Firth Metal sticks.

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I do recommend this product. See comments above.

I Love these heads, period. I don't write many reviews but had to say that these are great versatile, awesome sounding heads. I put a pair on my 13" and 16" toms (batter side) and it totally opened up the drum's tone and gave them both a punchy warm feel. The 2-ply contruction looks great, very sharp looking heads.  I play a newer simple maple shell rock kit and I am very satisfied with the sound and projection of these heads on them. I'll definitely be buying these again when they wear out.

After trying the EC 2 clear batter heads on my toms, I feel compelled to share my satisfaction.

I have tried most others: most all of remo's, aquarian's performance 2s, with dot and without, attack's and others, and they are also top quality, but Evans EC 2 clear heads are the most resonant and loud (some may want to mute them slightly), and satisfactory to my preferences. I am one happy player. Also, the Evans EC 2 coated are really awesome, the coating does mute them a little more than the clear ones so no extra muting, mylar rings, etc. is required, I think I like the clear EC 2s a little better, but both are the best I have tried. They work great on my 2001 Tama Rock Stars and my 2005 Yamaha Tour Customs.  They seem to be pretty durable and long wearing too. Very pleased.