mickster
Junior Member
Hello all!
I purchased a Gretsch Catalina Club Jazz CC-J484 in marine pearl last August. Love the kit, but am having a real hard time getting the 12" rack tuned. If I place the tom on my bench I can rather quickly get a sound I like, but when I mount it on the kit almost all of the resonance disappears. I think the problem is the tom's mounting hardware.
If you own one of these kits you know that the tom mount is a "no holes" type. Two of the lug screws run through a grommet and into the lug base. It seems that when the drum is allowed to rest on the rubber bumper attached to the mount...that additional tension is applied to those two lugs...thus choking the resonance. Leaving the drum on the mount, but lifting it up, (thus removing the tension on those two lugs), allows the drum to resonate again.
I'm sorry...this issue is kind of hard to put into words, but if you own one of these kits...maybe you have noticed the same thing,
Thanks in advance!!!
Mick
I purchased a Gretsch Catalina Club Jazz CC-J484 in marine pearl last August. Love the kit, but am having a real hard time getting the 12" rack tuned. If I place the tom on my bench I can rather quickly get a sound I like, but when I mount it on the kit almost all of the resonance disappears. I think the problem is the tom's mounting hardware.
If you own one of these kits you know that the tom mount is a "no holes" type. Two of the lug screws run through a grommet and into the lug base. It seems that when the drum is allowed to rest on the rubber bumper attached to the mount...that additional tension is applied to those two lugs...thus choking the resonance. Leaving the drum on the mount, but lifting it up, (thus removing the tension on those two lugs), allows the drum to resonate again.
I'm sorry...this issue is kind of hard to put into words, but if you own one of these kits...maybe you have noticed the same thing,
Thanks in advance!!!
Mick