thats quite odd.

We do black, because it sticks out against the white drum heads. We do white for tenors and snares because they stick out against the black of our uniforms.

It's all visual. =0

thats what im saying!

The line i'm on uses black tape for the bass mallets, I never really knew why though, I'm thinking about going to ask our instructor some time why black tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP4cgThKQTs

look at their bass mallets, they're near invisible.

Yes, but when they're at full extension it's a different story. Look at their heights BELOW the drum. That's why they use white tape. The sweet height extension would get lost with black tape. Crown Bass is rockin' some bada$$ heights this year!

i think tape should be white on any sick/mallet. i dont know about anyone else but we do more than a couple clicks in our shows and the rim shooters eat up the tape. if the tape was black then you would see the "chew" (for lack of better words) spots on the mallets

I tried taping sticks black once. And as A7xDrummer27 said, you can see where the tape is being chewed up more on black-taped stick rather than sticks that are taped white. You could tape them black to go with the theme of a show I suppose. But I think white gives a better look overall.

in the lines i have marched we taped regular mallets white and the puffys black, no clue why? we used black heads, so the puffys disapear when placed over the head. its pretty cool!

^^^thats alittle wierd