Auspicious
Silver Member
Hello, I create this thread today about tuning, some will say that it will be overthinking, I want to study it right the first time and then I'll stop thinking about it after, that's all.
I looked at some youtube videos last evening and so far, I am quite disappointed with most of these tutorials.. I even saw some outrageous things and awe full tuning and drum sounds.
Still I learned some good things and I ended up listening to piano tutorials instead of drum at the end.
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So I have a bop kit, at least it was sold as Catalina club jazz and I bought it to get a jazz sound. It's probably possible to play anything with that drum but I bought it for jazz 10 years ago. it's a 18" bass drum, 10" high tom, 14" floor tom and 14" snare, I don't remember the exact thickness of the shells right now.
I ordered a Tune-bot which I am going to receive one day hopefully. I want to tune my kit higher to get a good fast rebound response, if I don't like it, ill tune it lower the next time. The heads are mainly G1 and the bass drum is a powerstroke 3 which is good but lifeless a bit for my taste. I tried Ambassadors in the past but I don't like them, not going to use them.
I want to tune my shells according to a specific pitch, I learned from a very small (but good) video from Ari Hoening, where he shows his drum and it tuned like the following:
Hi-Tom = F
Floor Tom = C
Snare = A (At the end of the video the snare is moved to A flat)
Bassdrum = unknown
My questions:
What's the perfect sequence pitches to use with my drum? Or if i don't have a clue so far about the venue, the recording, the room, the mikes, what pitches should I simply pick to start with? just for the sake of getting a logical but nice tuning?
And the last time I worked on that (many years ago), I started with the hi-tom and at the end, the head of the snare was way too loose, I had to start all over with the tuning I liked for the snare. all this was improvisation back then.
Finally there is the bass drum, I could not find anything about the pitch for that one.. I would like to have it with some tone but not too much, a bit of muffling only.. I'll publish a sound sample of what I am looking to achieve later for the bass drum, perhaps something like Joe Morello in the old videos. The best example I can describe, it looks like hitting a thick concrete slab with a metal mass.
I am collecting ideas if some of you are interested.
I looked at some youtube videos last evening and so far, I am quite disappointed with most of these tutorials.. I even saw some outrageous things and awe full tuning and drum sounds.
Still I learned some good things and I ended up listening to piano tutorials instead of drum at the end.
***
So I have a bop kit, at least it was sold as Catalina club jazz and I bought it to get a jazz sound. It's probably possible to play anything with that drum but I bought it for jazz 10 years ago. it's a 18" bass drum, 10" high tom, 14" floor tom and 14" snare, I don't remember the exact thickness of the shells right now.
I ordered a Tune-bot which I am going to receive one day hopefully. I want to tune my kit higher to get a good fast rebound response, if I don't like it, ill tune it lower the next time. The heads are mainly G1 and the bass drum is a powerstroke 3 which is good but lifeless a bit for my taste. I tried Ambassadors in the past but I don't like them, not going to use them.
I want to tune my shells according to a specific pitch, I learned from a very small (but good) video from Ari Hoening, where he shows his drum and it tuned like the following:
Hi-Tom = F
Floor Tom = C
Snare = A (At the end of the video the snare is moved to A flat)
Bassdrum = unknown
My questions:
What's the perfect sequence pitches to use with my drum? Or if i don't have a clue so far about the venue, the recording, the room, the mikes, what pitches should I simply pick to start with? just for the sake of getting a logical but nice tuning?
And the last time I worked on that (many years ago), I started with the hi-tom and at the end, the head of the snare was way too loose, I had to start all over with the tuning I liked for the snare. all this was improvisation back then.
Finally there is the bass drum, I could not find anything about the pitch for that one.. I would like to have it with some tone but not too much, a bit of muffling only.. I'll publish a sound sample of what I am looking to achieve later for the bass drum, perhaps something like Joe Morello in the old videos. The best example I can describe, it looks like hitting a thick concrete slab with a metal mass.
I am collecting ideas if some of you are interested.