Gaffers Tape
Drum Kit Tuning,what You Need Too Know
Firstly I am going to assume your drums have two skins on them. A batter head(top) and a bottom skin.
Firstly turn the drum over and loosely do up the bottom head,working diagonally across the drum,from tuning rod to tuning rod. Place two or three fingers in the center of the drum and push down lightly.
From here go to a tuning rod and about three centimeteres in tap the skin with a stick(whilst keeping the centre pushed down) You should hear a note,this is a harmonic.Now go too the tuning rod diagonally opposite and tap and hear the harmonic.
The two harmonic notes should sound the same. If they down adjust the tuning rods until the two harmonic notes "sing"in harmony with each other.
Repeat the process for all tuning rods,working diagonally. Note the overall tension of this bottom skin should be tighter than the top skin,or batter head.
Now repeat the process on the top head,or,batter head. It,s exactly the same as for the top head,nut the skin tension will be looser than the bottom head.
The aim is to get the drum "IN TUNE" with itself.Please dont expect to get a big sound out of a little drum,or a small sound out of a large drum.
You will notice when you strike each drum as you tune them,ther will almost certainly be a ring,to the drum,lets get rid of the ring.
This is done by dampening the drum.There are internal dampeners,clamp on external dampeners,these I,m afraid all tend to stop the skins vibrating naturally.
Here I recommend using Gaffer tape and a felt patch,about,as big or as small in size as it takes. You wil have too experiment. A nice natural tone with little ring should emerge.
The bass drum apply the same method.Too dampen it use drum wool,or get a heavy pillow and push it against the batter head,and,hold it in place by a gaffer covered house brick.
Finally assemble your drums,and kick the bass drum pedal if you get no ring,your a natural,and a champion,most of us get drums ringing. So try by making minor adjustmaents to decrease this ring.
Dont get to upset if you dont get "the"perfect sound.It takes many years to get that,and after all what is it?
You will hear much arguing about methods to tune your kit,pick one method like this one and perfect it.
Thank-you for reading,stephen Thorne,5/01/2010.
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wrapping mics in tape?
for anyone else who tapes the mic cable to the mic, where can i get gaffer tape? i tried walmart and lowes and i dont think they have it. and since i cant find gaffer tape any other suggestions for tapes n stuffs like that would be helpful. like what do you guys use? thanks ppls.
Here you go:
http://www.northernsound.net/Sales/Tape/tape.html
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