Floor Tom Tuned Flat

6ply 5mm bass drum.

Floor tom tuned flat.

When tuning most toms you ll find a level where the head will sound warm and bright across its surface. 4ply maple 2 outer ply lacebark pine 5mm bass drum. When trying to tune the batter head of a floor tom try to do it in its natural environment. I know my drumming room isn t a acoustic heaven but i can t get a good sound.

Never force a drum to play a note out of its best range or you will have an uneven so. Some kits have more and others have less any number of tom toms in any size can be added to any any kit it s just a matter of the player deciding what they need. As stated tom toms are the support drums you add to your kit. I like deep booming sounding toms that cut.

If you re lucky you could come across this at one or two levels. These intervals chords and songs provide numerous tuning options that work well for just about any drumset and type of sound you want. Then you can determine a tuning scheme using notes. I ve been tuning my toms all day and for some reason i can t get the sound i want.

First you must determine where each tom sounds best. Hopefully this helps here s the most important thing. I ve been tuning the top head tighter than the bottom which usually works for me. Right now i m getting a somewhat flat sound with not a lot of attack.

A floor tom or low tom is a double headed tom tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs however they can also be attached to a cymbal stand with a drum clamp or supported by a rim mount it is a cylindrical drum without snare wires and tend to produce a booming resonant sound which can vary in pitch. For the same four toms call to the post would be c2 f2 a2 c3 or c 2 f 2 a 2 c 3 or d2 g2 b2 d3 depending on the pitch you want for the 16 floor tom. 6ply maple 2 outer ply lacebark pime 7mm lacquer and unicolor wrap finishes tom tom floor tom snare drum. 8ply 7mm our highest priority in producing the superstar series of drums was sound.