Millenium QuiHead 13" Mesh Head

I am using this meshed drum head on a Pearl Midtown acoustic drum. I have to say that it does damper quite a good amount of the sound and it still leaves a bit of the tone for you to realize the difference between toms and so. Perhaps it is not as pleasent with the snare since it does not do as much the rattle noise as it to be nice sounding (perhaps it can be adjusted by adding tension or so, but I have not tried so far). All in all I am quite happy. What I do think is that the mesh heads in combination with the millenium low volume crashes is a good combination, despite I have the feeleng that the cymbals are proportionatlly more noisy than the drums.

I purchased this as a replacement head for my pearl rhythm traveler drum set. Although the drum set already comes with silent practice mesh heads, the key difference is that they are single ply. Whereas this millennium mesh head (apparently thomann's inhouse brand) is double ply.

Double ply is firmer and stiffer and feels just a little bit more like playing on a real snare drum. The important aspect is that the single ply pearl mesh head wasn't good for use with the drum triggers (im using 2box triggit triggers). The single ply was too bouncy causing a lot of machine gunning (i.e. Excessive triggering even when the sticks weren't hitting the head). However this two ply head works well, although one still has to adjust the thresholds for triggering and cross-talk to avoid machine gunning.

This mesh head currently only comes in white, whereas my original pearl mesh heads were in black. i think the black looks sleek, with my wine red drum shells, but white is not bad either.

In terms of noise, these two ply mesh heads are slightly louder compared with striking the one ply mesh heads. However the sound is still reasonable and wont disturb the neighbours.