Evans B16UV1 Coated 16" Drumhead
16-inch UV1 coated single-ply drumhead featuring an extremely durable UV-cured coating for long-lasting consistent performance.





Evans B16UV1 Coated 16" Drumhead
16-inch UV1 coated single-ply drumhead featuring an extremely durable UV-cured coating for long-lasting consistent performance.
Evans UV1 Coated 16-inch Tom Batter Drumhead (B16UV1): Unrivaled Durability, Consistency, and Warm Tone
The Evans UV1 Coated 16-inch Tom Batter Drumhead (B16UV1) is a groundbreaking innovation designed for drummers who demand the ultimate in durability, consistency, and a warm, responsive tone from their floor toms. Unlike traditional coated heads, the UV1 features a proprietary, UV-cured coating that is exceptionally resistant to chipping, flaking, and wear, ensuring a fresh sound and look for longer. Its single-ply construction provides excellent sensitivity and dynamic range, making it a versatile choice for a wide array of musical styles.
Key Features for Longevity, Feel, and Sound
The B16UV1 drumhead is engineered with specific attributes to deliver a consistent, high-performance sound:
Single-Ply 10mil Film Construction: This head features a single ply of 10mil film, offering a balanced combination of brightness, warmth, and sustain. This thickness provides excellent dynamic sensitivity, allowing the natural resonance and low-end punch of a 16-inch floor tom to shine through with clarity.
Proprietary UV-Cured Coating: The most distinguishing feature of the UV1 is its unique coating, applied and cured using ultraviolet light. This revolutionary process makes the coating incredibly durable and resistant to common wear issues like chipping, scratching, and flaking, which are often associated with traditional sprayed coatings. This means your head will look and sound new for a significantly longer period.
Warm, Textured Tone with Excellent Stick Response: The coating provides a warm, articulate attack and a slightly drier, more controlled sustain. It offers excellent tactile feel and stick response, making it suitable for a variety of stick types and playing dynamics.
Enhanced Tuning Stability: The advanced coating technology and precision manufacturing contribute to superior tuning stability, allowing the head to hold its pitch consistently throughout extended playing sessions.
Level 360 Technology: Incorporates Evans' revolutionary Level 360 Technology. This innovative collar design ensures a perfectly level fit on the drum shell's bearing edge, maximizing contact all around the drum. This results in easier tuning, an extended pitch range, and optimized sound quality and response across all tension points.
Versatile Application: The combination of durability, warm tone, and excellent sensitivity makes the UV1 incredibly versatile. It's an excellent choice for rock, pop, R&B, jazz, blues, country, and studio recording, truly fitting into any genre where a reliable, great-sounding coated head is needed.
Made in USA: All Evans drumheads are proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA, upholding high standards of quality and consistency in their manufacturing process.
The Evans UV1 Coated 16-inch Tom Batter Drumhead (B16UV1) sets a new standard for coated drumheads, offering drummers an unprecedented blend of long-lasting durability, consistent sound, and a warm, responsive playing feel, making it an ideal choice for 16-inch floor toms.
Technical Specifications
Feature | Specification |
Model Number | B16UV1 |
Brand | Evans Drumheads (D'Addario Company) |
Series | UV1 Coated |
Drum Type | Tom Batter Head |
Size | 16 inches |
Plies | 1-ply |
Film Thickness | 10mil total (1 x 10mil per ply) |
Finish | Proprietary UV-cured Coated (textured white, exceptionally durable) |
Sound Profile | Warm attack, controlled sustain, articulate, responsive, excellent for brushes; maintains original sound and look for longer due to coating durability; enhances the low-end punch and sustain of floor toms. |
Technology | UV-Cured Coating, Level 360 Technology |
Durability | Unrivaled (highly resistant to chipping, flaking, wear) |
Ideal For | Rock, Pop, R&B, Jazz, Blues, Country, Studio Recording, or any style requiring a highly durable, consistently great-sounding, and visually long-lasting coated tom head with excellent sensitivity, especially for 16-inch floor toms. |
Manufacturing | Designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA |