EricT43
Senior Member
This might sound strange, but I want to see if anyone else experienced this. I've been experimenting with different setups with my Sonor SQ1 kit. For a while I was using 10 and 12 rack toms over the bass drum. Now I keep the 12 nearly above the center of the kick, and the 10 to the left, that just feels comfortable to me. I've had issues with my 12 tom sounding kind of dead. I thought it was a tuning issue, because if I tuned it up higher, it would start to sing again.
Recently I got a 13 tom to go with the kit, and I was playing it in front of my snare as a 4-pc setup with the 16 floor tom. It sounds great, lots of body, good resonance, but well-controlled, that's why I wanted birch in the first place. Then I thought, let's try 12 and 13 rack toms together, like everyone used to do. So I moved my 13 tom where my 12 used to be and it sounded like crap. Same tuning, just a different position. I tried raising the tom a couple of inches to give it more room to breathe, but it doesn't help much. If I move it back to in front of my snare, it sounds good again.
Am I losing it? Does my room have a dead spot, or is proximity of the reso head to the kick drum the real problem here? I've never run into this problem with other drums.
Recently I got a 13 tom to go with the kit, and I was playing it in front of my snare as a 4-pc setup with the 16 floor tom. It sounds great, lots of body, good resonance, but well-controlled, that's why I wanted birch in the first place. Then I thought, let's try 12 and 13 rack toms together, like everyone used to do. So I moved my 13 tom where my 12 used to be and it sounded like crap. Same tuning, just a different position. I tried raising the tom a couple of inches to give it more room to breathe, but it doesn't help much. If I move it back to in front of my snare, it sounds good again.
Am I losing it? Does my room have a dead spot, or is proximity of the reso head to the kick drum the real problem here? I've never run into this problem with other drums.