Floor Tom Resonates Too Much

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Floor tom resonates too much.

My floor tom now resonates more freely sounds louder and just has a better overall tone. Conquer one handed hihat 16ths in 5 simple steps. Another benefit that i like from these is that the floor tom is about a half inch higher than before. In a rock r b pop scenario with 5 10 pieces one of the issues may be that you need bigger drums.

My band noticed the difference and said that my floor tom sounds much better. Put a pillow or jacket or pile of fluffy fabric or whatever under the floor tom. It shouldn t touch the head and you can play around with how much of it is under the drum and how far away from the drum. This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty.

Ultimately how you eq and place each instrument has to work within the song the instruments and the record as a whole. As i mentioned in the video i like to think of the bass drum as the root note of a triad chord with the floor tom as the 5th and the rack tom as the 3rd. 8x12 and 14x14 will have certain sonic limitations in a traditional ply shell kit like yours. I guess these work by decoupling the drum from the floor as much as possible.

I was getting too much sympathetic resonance from my old yamaha 14 floor tom every time i struck the bass drum. The higher toms and bass drum i take the reso s up a notch but with the floor tom i prefer same tension. Switched from a clear amb to a clear emp and that did the trick for me. As the bottom head is parallel with the floor the floor will reflect sound back and reinforce the resonance of the drum.