Congratulations! I almost got the same snare! A lot of the time you'll find stickier lugs on different parts of the drum, even straight from the factory. You can get lug lube for really cheap and fix that. For overtones, tuning can only do so much. On a big brass you're going to have to learn to love your overtones. What you can do, however, is get a two-ply head, a snare strand with more snares, and tune the reso head a little bit lower than the batter. Other than that you'll probably have to go with at least a little moon gel.
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