Floor Tom Tuning For Recording

First you must determine where each tom sounds best.

Floor tom tuning for recording.

Available with seamless streaming across your devices. 1 a bebop kit with its toms tuned up high 10 tom tom and 14 floor tom. I use three primary kits for recording. If the floor tom has an undesirable basketball type after ring try this.

Loosen the bottom head. Headphones recommended for workshop the title is pretty self explanatory. If you re lucky you could come across this at one or two levels. When trying to tune the batter head of a floor tom try to do it in its natural environment.

A fascinating yet possibly surprising idea for tuning a drum kit is to tune its various different pieces to suit the key of a specific song. These toms are suitable for jazz and not much else as they have a very distinct sound. Hi everyone i do some home recording stuff for myself and my band and have been doing it for some time now. 2 the ubiquitous rock kit.

Yes let it be in a position where you could easily play it. There is one problem i am having at the moment that never used to be a problem but has popped up. Hopefully this helps here s the most important thing. We re gonna get them.

Tighten the bottom head. Toms tuning tips check the top heads for dents and replace as necessary. Then you can determine a tuning scheme using notes. This is the kit for loud edgy rock music.

Check the evenness of tension all around on the top and bottom heads. Watch a free lesson today. When tuning most toms you ll find a level where the head will sound warm and bright across its surface. Get started on your creative journey with the best in creative education taught by world class instructors.

Grab those toms you ve been having trouble tuning forever. Support sounds like a drum on patreon. Never force a drum to play a note out of its best range or you will have an uneven so. Join jamie king tommy rogers for lesson 2.

Have the bearing edges checked and recut as required.