Evans G1 TT18G1 Genera Clear Drumhead 18"

Evans G1 Clear 18-inch Tom Batter Drumhead (TT18G1): Massive Resonance, Open Tone, and Dynamic Sensitivity

The Evans G1 Clear 18-inch Tom Batter Drumhead (TT18G1) is a versatile and expressive option for drummers seeking a deeply resonant, expansive, and highly sensitive sound from their largest floor tom. As a fundamental drumhead in Evans' popular G1 series, this single-ply head delivers a balanced attack with immense, vibrant sustain, allowing the drum's natural voice and thunderous low-end to shine through with exceptional clarity. It's a favorite for drummers across genres who appreciate an articulate response and a broad tuning capability, particularly for emphasizing the powerful, booming depth of an extra-large tom.

Key Features for Expansive Sound and Versatility

The TT18G1 drumhead is engineered with specific attributes to deliver a consistent, high-performance sound:

• Single-Ply 10mil Film Construction: The G1 Clear features a single ply of 10mil film. This lighter construction provides an open and expressive sound with a bright tone, excellent sustain, and high sensitivity. It allows for maximum resonance and responsiveness, making it ideal for nuanced playing, quick stick response, and capturing the full, unadulterated character of the drum shell, especially on a large floor tom where deep, resonant low-end is a key characteristic.

• Clear Film: The clear film finish ensures a bright, immediate attack and allows the fundamental tonal characteristics and resonance of your drum shell to project clearly. This contributes to a crisp, articulate, and vibrant drum sound, perfect for adding punch and clarity to your rhythm section.

• Balanced Attack and Massive Resonant Sustain: The G1 series is renowned for its versatility. For an 18-inch floor tom, it produces a balanced attack that is clear without being overly harsh, coupled with an expansive, resonant sustain that truly emphasizes the natural ring and powerful, fundamental low-end depth of the drum. This makes it suitable for a wide variety of musical contexts where an open and full, booming sound is desired, often bordering on bass drum-like resonance.

• Wide Tuning Range: This head offers an exceptionally wide tuning range, allowing drummers to achieve diverse sounds from thunderous, almost subterranean rumbles that highlight the drum's natural depth, to bright, singing tones when tuned higher. This versatility is particularly advantageous for a large floor tom, enabling it to fit various musical contexts and provide strong, foundational rhythmic elements.

• 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, a wider tonal range, and optimized sound quality and response across all tension points, making precise tuning simpler and more efficient for drummers of all skill levels.

• Versatile Application: Its open, expressive, and sensitive characteristics make it exceptionally versatile for various musical styles, including jazz, pop, gospel, fusion, studio work, and lighter rock, where an open, deeply resonant, and articulate tom sound is desired. It also functions exceptionally well as a resonant (bottom) head due to its single-ply, highly resonant nature, making it a popular choice for both batter and resonant applications, particularly for larger bass drums or auxiliary toms.

• 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 G1 Clear 18-inch Tom Batter Drumhead (TT18G1) is a dependable and popular choice for drummers seeking an open, expressive, and highly sensitive head for their largest floor toms, providing a bright, resonant sound with excellent clarity and a wide tuning capability, truly maximizing the drum's natural low-end and depth.