[COLOR="DarkRed"]I know that anyone who puts Pinstripes on the batter side, and awesome Fiberskyns on the RES side...is a total idiot.

Did this person happen to be wearing their underwear on top of their pants ?Eye Ball

Fiberskyns are awesome heads, they were intended to reproduce the calfskin vintage sound. Not quite, but they are really, really good heads for vintage drums, IMHO. They also feel nice with brushwork.

If they are in good shape, use 'em as batters somewhere. You will be pleasantly surprised at how they play.

Pinstripes I find excellent, too...for use as frisbees......[/COLOR]

My situation is this,

I have a 68 luddy 5 piece kit a 60's teardrop sonor 4 piece kit, a cb700 5 piece and no name 5 piece kit and my tama rockstar 7 piece kit that I play at our jam hole, but so does everyone else. I plan on selling th cb's and generic's. I was thinkin about putting the fiberskyns on my luddys, the pin strip on the ones for sale, Luddys have pin strip on them now

I have been takin inventory on all my heads trying to figure out which heads to put on which drums. WHAT A DELIMA!! LOL Thank for your input jaye

Pop Incidently the cbs and no names are excatly the same color, therefore I have them set up in the garage as a double bass drum kit, for kicks.

lol

Hi,

I like Fiberskyn's as batters, but I use them mostly for brushwork. And I have one on the front of a kick as much for looks as for sound. (Looks deadly)

I have been buying them off and on since they were just Fiberskyns (no number). I got hooked on the original marketing that suggested they were close to a rawhide head.

They are thicker than standard Remo heads, so that an Ambassador weight fiberskyn reacts and plays more like an Emperor. I use diplomat weight Fiberskyns as batters on two of my kits with excellent results.

I have used both kits on rock gigs, and the drums sounded good, but the Fiberskyns tend to bubble (delaminate) with hard use.

I would expect a tom with a pinstripe on batter and a fiberskyn on the reso would be dryer (less ring) than were you to put a clear or frosted single ply head on the bottom. This might work just fine for rehearsals.

Anywho, they play well, and deliver a good sound that I believe is mostly marketed to the jazz and orchestral markets.

Patrick

Fiberskyn's are great heads, but yeh, they do a delaminate after awhile, so if its for a practice set, you might want to go with the pinstripes, also a great head, just a different use, double ply, so very durable.

What is the model # for a Diplomat weight Fiberskyn?? I have had them on a kit that I practice on pretty much every day and they look like new.

Wow, I didn't even know they made those. I have only seen FS Ambs. FS Diplomats, those sound cool. I guess go to Remo website and find 'em (?)

Model number depends on head size, details here:

http://remo.com/portal/products/3/8/52/192/fi_diplomat.html

Though mostly you just refer to a Fiberskyn Diplomat/Fiberskyn Ambassador etc, and whatever head size you need.

Patrick