Man these suckers are amazing.

Why no one thought of this before is beyond me, and also the reason why the person lucky enough to have patented it is probably retired at 30!

The Evans Emad head is truly a work of simplistic beauty. Back in the day you had to stick towels, sheets, pillows or whatever else inside your bass drum to get a good sound- or maybe one of those annoying Remo muffle rings or any number of other muffling systems- but now all you need is an Emad bass drum head.

The muffling system is built into the batter side of the head, in which you can stick one of several sizes of fitted rings made of foam (of varying degrees of width each). Want a more muffled sound? Just stick in the widest foam ring. Want a more open, long sound? Simply replace the widest foam ring with either the middle width foam ring or the smallest width foam ring- or go without a ring and play the head by itself.

Playing the head by itself gives a great sound too, as the mounting that the foam rings fit into helps to dampen the head a bit by itself. I generally play this head without any of the foam rings to get a big open sound.

This drum head is sure to make any bass drum sound awesome. I play the clear Emad on my twenty two inch bass drum and it gives it an unbelievably deep, fat sound. This really is the quintessential head for funk and R&B in my eyes. It also works great in louder rock and roll and metal situations.

Evans also makes a coated Emad head that works very well for jazz- although they don't come in sixteen inch which irritates me slightly. The coated Emad heads also work well for Motown and lighter R&B situations as it gives a mellower sound and still offers the great controllability as the clear Emad.