Well, I've had my B/B kit for about a year now, and I'm going to replace the heads, seeing as the current ones are pretty beat up. I've never bought new heads before, and I'm wondering what sort I should get. I'm only going to replace the batter heads on the toms (unless someone highly recommends replacing the resonant ones too), and I am looking for suggestions on what heads to get. I'm trying to get a full, low sound I'm trying to not spend tons of money, but I'd also like nice quality heads. I am a hard hitting player, so I want some that will also last quite well. I currently am using the Genera G2 heads that came with the kit.

Thanks in advanced!

How much better will the drums sound with good heads? The ones that came on the drums were already a little beat up, and didn't sound that great to begin with. I've been trying to get a good sound from the toms for quite some time, and I can't get exactly what I want. I'm not very good at tuning, and I don't really know how to get the sound I'd like out of them. Overall, they sound much better than my old drums, and they sound good, but I still haven't gotten them to sound 2 grand good.

+1 to what drumsonfire said, those are great heads. I would go with coated emperor myself, partly for the sound and mostly to see that nice wood.

I was actually thinking about the EC2's. They sounded like what I wanted on their website, but I wanted to see if anyone here mentioned them.

Evans G Plus Clear or Coated. That is what I am using and so far they are my favorite heads for the B/B toms.

I'm buying a performer kit pretty soon. The dude at the store says Evans heads might sound the best on them. Is that the case? I dont have anything against Evans but I've been using Remos for 9 years.

I owned a big performer kit for a few years. What I can tell you is that I've tried pretty much every head currently made, and I keep coming back to the coated emperors and coated ambassadors (depending on how soon I feel like replacing them). Evans tom heads always had too much of a 'stick hitting plastic' sound to me, but their bass drums heads are some of the best, I really like the eq3. For the snare, reverse dot heads are always great (any manufacturer), I also like aquarian's hi-energy head. Attack heads are also pretty good sounding too. Anyway, those are just my suggestions, the key is to find the sound that you like. Also, you shouldn't be afraid to mix and match drumheads from different companies.

Coated ambassadors are not near as ringy as you might think, and they have great tone. Derrick Roddy uses them (or at least used to use them) for a lot of his stuff, John Dolmayan also used coated ambassadors to record toxicity.

For the performers I would say clear emperors or coated ambassadors, although it all depends on the sound you like. Birch is a little more contained sounding than maple, so two ply coated heads sound a little too dead (to me at least).

I thought the G2s were the stock heads.?