I’m so glad this video could help you! Thanks so much for your comment!

@@timmorrisdrums welcome! I’m a sound guy by nature so drums are second haha.

It’s a great way I hope more people can learn about! Thanks for your tip!

Same!

Same here!

Exactly people need to learn to see things in different perspectives.

That’s very true! I think a lot of drummers get discouraged by not having some general guide to tuning. Thanks so much for your comment!

Thanks so much for the comment! 🙂

100% inspired by him (:

We were all beginners once. When I was a beginner, I screwed up my snare drum tuning so badly that I didn't play again (in any real capacity) until I bought another snare drum. I thought it was a terrible drum and didn't touch it again until I had a friend teach me how to tune a snare... EIGHT YEARS later. If I'd have had someone say, "Try this way," instead of "Tune randomly until it sounds good," then I might have got it playable again before I was in college.

There definitely are wrong ways to tune drums. You should always aim for even lateral tension. Once that's achieved then you can bring the drum up or down to the desired range.

@@RockerBug17 Yes and you can loosen or tighten the head for the sound you want for the song but I was saying as long as there isn’t a awful wonky ring tuning a drum is up to the ears of the drummer

Setting the heads has nothing to do with tuning. You basically set the heads and then took that away. Tuning means to adjust them to a pitch.

I’m glad you could find something from my video!

Makes me so happy to hear! Thank you for your feedback 😁

Thank you so much for stopping by! (: I’m glad you found some good use from this!

Thank you so much! Also, yes you’re so right!

Yes totally! I'm happy to know I'm not alone in that! Mixing definitely plays a huge part for sure too! It 100% makes sense what you're saying! Thank you so much for your insight! 😃

Great point!

Yes sir!😎

Thank you! 🙂

Me too! It’s a great method if you need a great sound fast! 😃

Let me know how it works out! (:

Glad it was helpful!

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Oh nice! I’ll have to check that out! Thanks so much for your input!

Good news! Snare wire vid is in the works right now! (: I totally get the struggles! Thanks so much for the sub!

Snare wire vid is up now 😁👍🏻

@@timmorrisdrums just saw the notification. Gonna go watch. Sure, after I changed two the past week.🤣 🤘🥁🥁🤘

That’s awesome! I never even thought of that! I’m going to try that out!

Parafin wax is good also

@@technicalitems731 that’s probably a better option

Thank you so much! I hope it was helpful! 😃

@@timmorrisdrums You know, I was taught to focus on the final pitch of the drum more so than the natural good-sounding tension of the head, which caused me plenty of mistakes along the way. I would tune thicker heads too tight, and thinner heads too low. But with your “wrinkle-elimination” method, you basically find the tension that’s right for the head. Very nice!

SJC seems great too!

Ive got a Black Panther Velvetone ! And a Saturn 3 !! Sold a Tama B/B for the Velvetone !

Ouuu never even thought of that!

It’s working out well for me and others. I do use the star pattern for my snare drum if you want to watch that video to make you feel less upset.

Great question! I actually do use a pillow in my kick drum. It definitely makes a difference for dampening! 👍🏻

My first sub named Tim! 😎😁

This is such a relatable comment!! I’m so happy to hear you’re able to get back to drumming again. Hopefully this method will keep you from needing your brother in law to tune anymore 😂

@@timmorrisdrums hopefully, gonna retune once the wife goes to work later will let you know how i do. i was pretty much pushed into gettin back to it by one of my best friends/guitarist haha, just need to refresh myself with fills ect, i'm really sloppy atm

Hi 😃 That is definitely something that happens that can be frustrating. I would recommend checking out my snare tuning video. Sometimes the resonant head on the snare drum not being tuned tight enough can affect the wires buzzing.

Thank you Sir!@@timmorrisdrums

Tim you're the man. Went downstairs took my resonant Head to the extreme and tuned up the batter head as well. All the buzzing stopped immediately and it sounds better and performs infinitely better. I really am so grateful to you. God bless you brother.@@timmorrisdrums

@@dr.p3637 I’m so glad it worked! Anytime brother!

Maybeeeeeeeeeeeee

This is an amazing comment! That’d be so awesome if we did!

Great question! So, I’d say what it all comes down to is if you want bigger sounding toms on your kit and the genere of music you’re playing. My kit came with a 10,12,14,and 16 inch tom. I usually just use my 12in rack tom and 16in floor tom. If I want a smaller sound I’ll use the 10in and 14in tom. I hope this answer was helpful. 😁👍🏻

@@timmorrisdrums yea I ended up buying the pearl export with 14 snare, 12 tom 13 tom, 16 floor tom, 22 bass drum.

my buddy said it was more of a jazz set up but I heard some reviews and both sets sounded great.

You know what, I haven’t yet! Thanks so much for the advice, I’m definitely going to look into it!

Polyester straps are a safer bet. Cord can dig into the edge of a wood shell. I stick to the black poly strap except for my Starphonic snares which Tama includes for the factory and my Yamaha snares which also use a cord from the factory. 95% of my snares have Tama wires that mostly use the black straps so I stick with what works and is the easiest to set up.

@@Assimilator702 Have you ever seen a cord cut into a wood shell? I have heard this myth repeated here and there, but nobody has seen one in the wild. I definitely have not, and I’ve got cord on everything from maple, walnut, birch, cherry, bubinga, box elder, hickory, mahogany, and some I can’t recall. Thin plies, steambent, stave, sharp edges, roundover edges. I think this is a leftover urban legend from the days of metal wires going right to the throw/butt on mahogany field drums. The fact that high end wood drums typically come outfitted with cord is telling. There is no way that a nylon cord OVER a layer of Mylar is going to press through the head and into a bearing edge. You would have to use a ratchet strap to generate that much force, and I’m still not sure if you could cut through the drum head. Cord has several advantages - you have two points of manipulation to get the wires perfectly true and they self-align somewhat (straps may be ‘easier’ to install but they’re easier to get wrong); they pull from both corners of the plates instead of pulling from the middle; they’re extremely light/thin so they’re more sensitive and they don’t dampen the head; they don’t stretch or snap

@Dan G I think it is from the old days when drums were made of questionable woods. No emphasis was given to the types of wood used for drums. You just accepted what the drum maker used. My main issue with cord is that there are 2 points to pull when attempting to get the snared straight. Strap there is one. But you're e ighr one the points where the cord pull from provide a more broad even tension. I don't tighten my wires much so straps have never given me an issue. I do like the white cord that Yamaha uses. The very thin coated wires Tama uses....not so much.

@@Assimilator702 Exactly, thin soft wood + some metal wires and I can see an issue. But quality drums + nylon cord, no way. You wouldn’t see $1000 drums with cord if this were a problem. I used straps for a long time, and then I used grosgrain for a while too (which imo is the best type of strap - far superior to the stiff plastic, and better than the kinda thick Puresound straps). Both are fine, and as you say they are faster and simpler. But over the years I’ve had some drums that are VERY sensitive to the wires being absolutely perfectly square and even - if you’ve ever had a drum where there’s some twangy aftereffect, it’s typically the wires not being perfect. I’ve come to see the 2 strands of cord vs one strap as a benefit because now you can REALLY get them lined up/adjusted with precision. (A quick test to check for “true” - flip the drum and disengage the wires, now watch the end plates as you engage: they should pull straight out. If you see one or both plates kinda wiggle/twist while engaging- they’re not pulling straight) And then there are the ‘cord only’ systems like the old p-83 or the newer Dunnett beertap, both of which I kinda love. To each his own, there’s no wrong way of course. I would just encourage trying them, especially on a finicky drum or a drum whose snare response is not where you’d like it.

Thanks so much for the great comment 😂😁

Hey Ricky, definitely sounds like it is the stock heads and not having any dampening in the bass drum. Feel free to let me know how they sound afterwards 😁👍🏻

@@timmorrisdrums changed the heads and put a blanket in the bass drum sounds sm cleaner bro thanks alot

@@GonzalezDrums Estoy tan feliz de que funcionó! 😁

Of course! So what I mean by “one turn” is a 360 degree turn of the drum key. So wherever the starting position of your drum key is, before you turn it. You will turn it clockwise once until it’s back in the same position again. Let me know if this helps! 😁👍🏻

@@timmorrisdrums thank you. Some people think of one turn as 180 degrees so thanks for clarifying

@@Adam-rh1gf of course!

Exactly! 😎

I tuned them a little lower actually

@@timmorrisdrums oh okay, sounds great!

I haven’t tried your method but, I’m going to try it out now! Thanks for your input!

Woah really?! You just blew my mind! 🤯

@@timmorrisdrums I might post a video of the kit I just recently tuned using that method. It's also a cheap Tama imperial star kit so no high end kit and you'll see how great even a cheap kit can sound.

You got it!

Just uploaded a snare wire vid! 😁

@@timmorrisdrums Thanks!

I’ll check them out! Thanks for the comment!

Only the best 😎

Glad you enjoyed! I’m also glad you found the sketch to be comedic at least 😅😁

Hey, thanks for reaching out! High temperatures cause the wood to warp, which leads to the deformation of the drumheads, which in turn has drastic impacts on the sound.

Great tip! (:

In my experience; crank up the reso on the snare and then give the batter just one turn, slap a folded tea towel on the edge, and voila you got yourself a great sound

Indeed lol

There are tuning apps you can use on your phone, and you can also buy a Drum Dial to ensure all tuning lugs. I personally don’t worry about the key the drums are tuned to. I just go by what I’m hearing 😁👍🏻

I wish I did too 😅 I make many mistakes haha

Me too!

I’ll take it 😁👍🏻

Believe it or not, the base tuning was captured by the drums mics as well.

Bothered me too 😂

Heh heh heh 😁

100% inspired by him! 🙂 I had a section in the video where I mentioned this but felt like it didn’t fit well. Also, I guess you could argue that everyone “copies” a method.

I love the base tuning too! It just goes to show that this way of tuning can get you to a good sound already! 😁 I’m glad you enjoy!

Factual

When you put it like that.. you’re right!

Hmmmmm not the first time I’ve had this kinda comment 😂

100% it makes all the difference!

😂true

Yes

Is anything ever really in tune these days?😂 “Yes. Just not your drums.” Yoooo you’re funny 😂

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