I'm really liking the Mapex SONIClear mounts. I like the fact that they don't have any contact with the lugs, and they are small but very stable. My Ludwig mounts were big, heavy, and you had to remove them to change batter heads.
I'm really liking the Mapex SONIClear mounts. I like the fact that they don't have any contact with the lugs, and they are small but very stable. My Ludwig mounts were big, heavy, and you had to remove them to change batter heads.
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I really like my DW TOMS mounts. I like the idea that there are no additional holes, and they hold onto the existing round lugs with big rubber grommets. Appears to have limited or no choking on the toms. I like 'em!
Now, just a tiny bit less than an absolute drum newbie
DW Collectors Cherry kit, Ludwig Black Beauty Snare, DW SuperSolid Oak/Cherry Snare, DW Sabian Vault Edge Snare
I have the same on my PDP Concept Maples:
Works well although I find I have to push on the mount to be able to line up the tension rods to the lugs when changing batter heads. That said, if you are wanting to change how you mount rack toms (i.e. off a cymbal stand as opposed to a bass drum mount) it is very easy to move the mount on the tom to enable to badge to always be facing the 'right' way if that kind of thing is important to you.
My preferred options of late would be either the Gretsch - very small and subtle:
Or the Mapex SONIClear:
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this may be a little off topic of the thread, but does anyone know if any company supplies a suspension mount for 6" toms? thx!!!
Well aren't all 6" drums 4-lug? At least every one I've come across has been. Although I'm not sure how much resonance you'd really gain from suspending a 6" tom.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I have a 6" LP micro snare and it has 4 lugs and the various 6" mini timbales all have 4 lugs. When I was in high school there were sets of marching tenor drums and concert toms, and all of the 6" drums also had 4 lugs. I think 8" is where it starts to change.
I just bought a Gibraltar rim suspension mount for my 8" 4-lug tom. The way I see it, small toms are notorious for having a lack of resonance. Anything I can do to help increase the resonance even a little will help. A rim suspension mount on a 6", 8" or 10" tom makes more sense to me than on a 16" FT.
-Brian
"Too many crappy used drum stuff to list"
Play the SONG......not the DRUMS!!!
"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts." ~ John Bonham
I've actually had an 8" tom that had tons of resonance before as well as several 10" ones. But yeah I would agree with you that it would make more sense on these sizes normally because of the lack of sustain. But the problem with 6" drums specifically is that as far as I have heard anyway, they're always cranked very high, so there's barely any resonance no matter how they're mounted just because of the high tension. I wonder if a suspension mount would really change a drum that is naturally very dry sounding?
Smaller the drum...less sound. Faster dissipation of energy. (physics) That's why a bongo drum sounds so clipped. I always thought with those small toms that that was the character. On those long rolls it begins with the tight clipped sound all the way down to the open booming sound.
all the best...
I'm purely speculating, but I would think that the typical L-rod or tube type bracket mount bolted directly to the shell would have a more deadening effect on a smaller shell. On a larger (deeper) shell, the bracket mounting points are smaller relative to the wavelength travelling down the shell. The bolts can be positioned at the nodal points on the shell to have the least effect....like Yamaha uses on their YESS system. That's pretty hard to do when your bracket is almost as big as the shell is deep. Plus, the shell mass is much less, relative to the mounting bracket, lugs, etc.. With everyone going to smaller or single point, low mass lugs and minimizing shell contact, it kinda makes sense that smaller shells would be more susceptible to such effects.
-Brian
"Too many crappy used drum stuff to list"
Play the SONG......not the DRUMS!!!
"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts." ~ John Bonham
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