[Oogadee Boogadee]

http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/

he needs to go there and learn and practice. tuning practice is a total bitch... but essential.

tune a lug up to pitch, not down to it. It's just like guitar. if a lug sounds lower than the rest, then bring it up. Sometimes, it has to come way up. if a lug is higher than the rest, of course, bring it down; but after that, and after giving it a good press with the hand to eat up any slack, then raise the tension on the surrounding lugs to bring them up the the lug that was higher. Basically, try to meet in the middle.

that's the general jist for me... mute one head while tuning the head that i'm focusing on, using the general stuff above. but start with the tuning bible in the link.

the hardest part is knowing if what you're hearing is 'right' or 'wrong'.

Achieve uniform pitch at all lugs on a given head first. Then do the same on the other head, achieving the same pitch. Then worry about whether or not that overal pitch is too high or too low, then go from there.

once you learn how to tune and what to hear, then you can pretty much get a lug-uniform pitch at a very low note, then gradual add tension to each lug till you get the note you really want.


also, since the smaller the drum, the shorter the sustain, i tend to have uniform maching reso/batter head pitches on my small toms, and tight reso / looser batter combos on my larger toms. The former combo increases the sustaine of my smaller toms, while the latter shortens it on my big toms. Plus, on the big toms, i'm hoping the higher tones on the bottom head carry out more to the crowd, while the lower note of the batter head that's picked up by the close-mic is then projected to the crowd via the PA system. I'm trying to achieve a balance in the sound characteristics of my drums from high to low, when it comes down to it... but always keep live-show projection in mind, even if the sound is not what i want when it comes to studio recording.

[Sebastian]

Great....

[metal_pandaa_x]

Tama are pretty fucking sick. I also find that sonor are pretty good too.