Lunar Satellite Brian
Senior Member
Welp, a few days ago I got a new kit from a friend of mine and I noticed he had the bottom heads tuned lower than the batter head, which didn't surprise me, because I know this is how DW recommends tuning your toms, but something about having the reso looser didn't sound right to me when I was playing (which is odd because I've listened to him play that kit for a while and it sounded perfectly fine outside the kit).
So I re-tuned all of the toms, pretty much to the same note just with the batters looser and the reso tighter, and what I noticed is that it seems that it sounds better to me, inside the kit with the batter heads looser than when the reso heads were looser, but worse outside the kit when the batter heads were looser.
At least that's what it sounded like to me.
Does anyone else have any thoughts about this? Also I'm looking to record some drum tracks soon(with actualy drum mics) and I'm wondering which tuning would sound the best, I'm thinking tuning the batter heads looser might be better but you guys have more experience with recording than I do.
So I re-tuned all of the toms, pretty much to the same note just with the batters looser and the reso tighter, and what I noticed is that it seems that it sounds better to me, inside the kit with the batter heads looser than when the reso heads were looser, but worse outside the kit when the batter heads were looser.
At least that's what it sounded like to me.
Does anyone else have any thoughts about this? Also I'm looking to record some drum tracks soon(with actualy drum mics) and I'm wondering which tuning would sound the best, I'm thinking tuning the batter heads looser might be better but you guys have more experience with recording than I do.