there goes the mesh head again. yet another frustrated thread...

[Murgen]

ειρηνικό, ήσÏ...χο ...

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ahahahahahaha murgen you are a god. yes ok i have blown out thye steam i have to admit. i am ok now!!! ahahahahahahahaha

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just received the payment.
i have to say that adrian the guy behind playrecord_uk, is as honest as it gets. great communications, he is an understanding guy, changed the description in his ebay product and he refunded me the whole price i paid for the heads. just received them. to sum it akk up, the 12 head fits really difficult in 2box. reeeally difficult. the 14 head doesnt fit at all. these are great heads but unfortunately are not meant for 2box. unless u get bigger screws...
but he is a really great bloke. id totally recommend hin if you want to buy something from his shop.

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i ordered 12 and 14 inch heads from 682. hope they come here soon!!!! anyone tried to communicate with the guys of 682? really slow communications i have noticed...

[Murgen]

Usually one day reply, they are Dutch, prolly watching speedskating and it is a holidayweek over here. I can always give them a Dutch push.

[Drum2]

Beware of pushing the Dutch, our dikes are made of clay and it's wet here

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hahaha. i have sent 2 emails. first got a reply a week later (or even more) second time, i still havent gotten a reply, so i decided to order anyway...ill review them heads once they arive!! and if they are awesome as i suspect i will also buy for my toms as well...

[hemiboy]

I have dealt with 682 drums before and although they are a little slow communicating back, they resolved a problem with my order fairly quickly. The good news is that there meshes are quiet and the rebound is great. I used them only on an a to e conversion but they have been pushing 2 box meshes from the jump. I think most of your angst is dealing with the whole z ed nightmare, but when all is said and done, you will be happy. Good luck!

[hemiboy]

Hey Burnin, got to thinking about the 682 drums thing and now I remember! I think there was one point that they didn't respond to me for almost 3 weeks. I think a guy named Rene finally got back to me with a big apology and then he would respond in a couple of days. I am gonna try a z ed 3 ply for my acoustic snare, hope it fits!

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because the acoustic snare screws are longer, you wont have any problems i am sure. i should have my 682 heads this week. i hope they fit. and then i will compare both heads and post here.cheers

[hemiboy]

Yeah let me know how you like the 682's . You got the black heads , I assume

[Murgen]

For the record and after a PM session with Lustar a word of advice. It is not hard to get the 682 kick head in place but it indeed requires a bit of concentration to get the bolts screwed in. I did the upper ones first and worked my way down. Took me only a couple of minutes but keep your coolness when you work on it.

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ok i got the 628 heads

the strange thing is that lustar mentioned he suffered installing the heads. murgen said it was fine, though they were a bit tight. my experience is a bit different. yes the heads installed easily. much easier than i had expected.
BUT,  it seemed that the rims were sort of narrower (a tiny tiny bit) than they should or, the mesh head doesnt sit evenly on the rim, or both issues combined.
because when i installed the head and screwed it on the pad, it wouldnt get tight equally. on the top right the head was not tight at all while on the other areas it was. i had to remove it from the kick and reinstall it but this time i paid attention to move the head towards the area it wouldnt get tight in the previous attempt. that fixed the issue, but to be honest there shoudlnt be such an issue at all. the kick head installed quickly and evenly but the rim was definitelly few cms narrower than it should. i can see the rim clearly when i look at my 2box kick ....
all these things make me realise that the production of 628 heads is not consistent. sometimes they come out fine sometimes they dont. no 2 heads are the same. and that is bad...

about the performance
first good thing is thet they are way more silent than all the other heads i have used. way more
about the snare head.
all the other heads i ever used, when i cranked them up, really really tight, the rebound got less. this doesnt happen here. if you tighten it too much the rebound increases. so you have to find the sweet spot where the heads are tight but not THAT tight. once you find it, the rebound is amazingly good. i will look into it more tomorrow when i practise properly
about the kick. finally a kick that is perfect
i really really love it. way better than stock head or roland head. way better. i am loving it

about the snare head, while it is really good, i still believe that my drumtechdesign head i used to have, was better! but i was stupid enough to tighten it too much and destroy it...and it was also way louder. hope i helped guys. any question just ask me. i will post more in the days to come....

ps. lustar, when you read this, i will answr you later tonight properly mate

[Murgen]

Good to hear, I like them too but the proof is in trying them.

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one last question (i will laso ask it to 682 but i dont hope to get a reply since they havent answered yet my last email which was about 2 or more weeks ago)...
the mesh heads for the toms, are they more difficult to fit? and also are the mesh heads from different material. because another great member of this forums, says that, and i do believe him. i just want to know if this is a fact or perhaps he got a bad batch of heads?
thank you

cant wait to play with the heads tomorrow, they feel terrific!!!!