Keep in mind the needs of your program. If you have an outdoor line AND an indoor line, you have to change your muffling anyway. With the Evans heads, I use the muffling all the way around for each drum and it makes tuning adjustments easier from outdoor season to indoor season.

i usually use all the felts on basses 4&5 and then i take away 2 for 1,2&3. it sounds really nice. I like how the upper basses have a little bit of overtone and then the bottoms have a lot of bottom end it sounds great.

Do what deadman says. One drum at a time. Each drum company's set of basses are going to have differences in sound character. Get the maximum punch out of each drum without losing tone. So it may require a varied approach to muffling on each drum. I think deadman's right on the money. One drum at a time. Start at the top.

For better or for worse the line I teach is using these. I'd like to get a set of Powermax, but as we all know money is sometimes hard to come by. I'm having difficulty finding a good tuning range where we get good tone and definition out of the drums.

For those that have used them a lot in the past, when you remove a felt or two do you remove adjacent felts, or do you use the recommended pattern of felts across from each other? Have you ever used extra foam in addition to the felt system? How do you place it?

Just looking for some ideas. Thanks!

Evans Bass Heads are the only ones our bass line uses. The tone quality is great and outdoors the volume can really articulate.

ours are mx2's and they have the muffling built in...but you can take some out and put it in different places for different effects