Fritz Frigursson
Senior Member
I have a 2020 model Ludwig LM402 and the first thing I did when I got it was switch out the heads for Control Sound Coated batter and Diplomat reso to save the stock heads. They didn’t sound very good so I messed with tuning and everything and in the end I just put the default heads back on. It sounded great for around 1 hour in the studio and then went back to sounding bad. Now it just has a really annoying overtone that I’m ABSOLUTELY sure is coming from the snare wires. So I tried cranking up the reso head. It just killed the snare sensitivity but the annoying sound almost completely went away. Since I want sensitivity in my snare I tried taking the reso head and wires off and started again, this time with a lower tuning. Nope, this time I had a sensitive snare but with excessive overtones and snare buzz. I tried messing with the strainer, I tried messing with the wires, I changed heads two times, I checked the hoops for warping, checked the bearing edges and nothing is out of the ordinary. I just have a really really annoying snare wire “overtone” that just kills the mood every time I try playing on it. I paid 700 euros for that and I was really excited but now I just play on the house snare which is a Yamaha Dave Weckl maple snare. It has exactly the right amount of snare sensitivity and the overtones are absolutely controllable by moongel. I tried moongel on the Supra, it just sounds like a muted snare. No snare buzz, no character. I tried the batter side tuning, no difference.
Is it really this hard to get a good sound out of my Supra or am I thinking this wrong?
Is it really this hard to get a good sound out of my Supra or am I thinking this wrong?