The DIY Trick to Double Your Floor Tom’s Resonance | Complete Method for Tuning a Cheap Floor Tom
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We’ve all struggled with getting a cheap floor tom in tune. It’s hard to get it to resonate properly and still have a nice, tone-filled low end. Today I’m tuning two different floor toms side by side to show you how I approach tuning a cheap tom versus an expensive one. We’ll see what the differences are and what the specific challenges are associated with a lower-end drum. We’ll tune both heads in realtime, and I’ll share tips for maximizing resonance and tone as well as handling sympathetic resonance from the kick and snare. There are very clear differences between tuning a nice drum and tuning and cheap drum, and these differences are VERY apparent with toms, especially floor toms. An expensive drum is much easier to tune, and it tends to tune up quickly and easily. You have a work a little harder at tuning a cheap drum, but you can still get a good sound. Sometimes you just have to find the tuning sweet spot. Once you find it, though, you’re good to go.
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I was going to tune my drums today, but I decided to do something simpler: change the transmission in my car.
Thanks for making this video! Floor toms are tricky, when they are right, it’s such a great sound that can shake the room you’re in. But it’s quite hard to make one sound good, with enough tone, enough low end, without sympathetic resonance, and more. This video had some great practical advice!
remember the days of old catalogues that listed "select hardwoods" for shell material on the cheap sets. like cb and harmony
I like my reso head pretty tight, to keep the bottom hoop and lugs from rattling, and it forces more air movement from the batter head. I try tuning it an octave higher than the batter side, then use 2 pieces of moon gel to kill sustain and overtone. Gives me the classic Gene Krupa "Drum Boogie" sound.
I felt like the fundamental tone at 21:00 was the same. Impressive! My cheap floor tom and the kit is made in Eastern Germany out of pressed cardboard. I'll go and try to get some tone out of it) I have EC2 as well.
Excellent video.... I’m struggling with this exact issue with floor tom to rack tom resonance... lots of great ideas... your final tuning is the sound I’m going for... thanks again!
Steven, Good Video. Question, why did you use an EC2 Clear batter head on the cheaper Tom? Why not use the same on both Drums?
Thanks for putting this video together. It was very helpful.
I'm like your cheap vs expensive concept but then you have different size drums ...not to mention head types. So there's that. I do appreciate much of your content...The best for me so far was your loose chain on the snare tip. Thanks for that one!
Great video. I like more the sound of your "cheap" tom. :)
Floor toms sometimes are hard to tune and control specially affordable ones but this helped
Awesome tuning lesson
I have a maple 16”floor tom and found if you place a big enough piece of wood that is close to the size in diameter will help with resonance.
Loving how the cheap one sounds!
nice tone, i like the cheaper one TBH lol
The cheap one sounds amazing after he tuned the bottom head. The expensive one kept sounding worse and worse as he tuned it higher
Great video. I think 14" floor toms are a pain in the ass to tune.
Through my experience, a 14" Tom sounds better if it hanging or mounted
haha. my floor tom is even cheaper. your drum at least has 6 lugs. mine has 5. ☹️
Evans heads make any drum sound amazing compared to remo. That’s just my opinion though. I have tried both and the Evans came out sounding the best on my maple kit. I also have a 13” rack tom that is a Tama rockstar with Evans black chrome head and a Evans reso head and it sounds great.
EC2 on the resonant head too? You choose some weird stuff to compare lol
I see you used the EC2s on the resonant side as well?
Been using large cymbal felts under each leg for years.. snare legs as well.. no patent lol
Have you checked Rob Brownes Channel on tuning? This wouldve taken quarter of the time
Dude Rob's tuning videos have changed my life. So much frustration gone.
The overall volume of the video is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooo low. I don't mean the lack of close mics, I mean the overall volume of the voice and the overheads, of the whole "mix".
The comparison is a bit unusual: why the size/head difference? And the EC2 on the resonant side as well? Hmmm
If you say finger tight why do you use the key at the same time? Isn't finger tight means only use the fingers.
so far its gone from Gong sounding to something evil sounding out of the devils workshop lol
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How to tune a floor Tom: coated top and bottom, finger tight, done
The cheap drum actually sounds better...maybe because of size, but do we get carried away with price and brand hype.
Not exactly a successful tuning guide 🙄
You can always muffle a live drum. But it's very hard to make a dead drum live. With that said. Yes. The cheap one sounds better in the video.
It seems like I'm the first
ehm, congratulations?... but commenting that you are "first" have nothing to do with anything.
Turning so many screws like this, without checking what happens with each turn, is like traveling from one city to another without having a single look at the landscape.
This channel never teach you any drum skills but many snake oil thongs.
what?
D’aww, having trouble following instructions?
Idk about u dude but I’ve never learned about thongs on this channel 💀💀💀
I fucking love snake oil thongs!