The idea of the Mylar plastic drum head goes back as early as 1952. By the end of 1956, drummer Chick Evans had partnered up and founded Evans Products, Inc. It was this new Evans company that made it happen. Mylar heads became the future of drum heads, because they didn’t have the problems of natural animal hide heads. Even so, those first synthetic heads had problems that needed to be worked out over the next several decades. When D’Addario purchased Evans Heads in the early 1990’s, they continued to improve the product quality immensely. Evans acquired several patents in the 1980’s and established even more patents going forward. Evans reasoned that the drum head should effectively conform to a drum’s bearing edge, and they debuted a logical solution called Level 360. Since 2013, all Evans drum heads are exactly that: Level, 360 degrees around. Level 360 is the pinnacle […]

June 2025 Issue