Re: Floor tom tuning
Originally Posted by
Pearl MCX Man
I like the sound of my floor tom no matter what head I use. The trick is to have to batter loser than the reso. I finger tight my batter plus 1/4 turn and that gives me the lowest pitch and the I do the reso the same but with an extra 1/8 to 1/4 turn more. Try this and if you like then leave it or add some mongel to the batter. Good luck and let me know what happens.
I had the same issues, I can get the other toms to my liking but that floor tom is a PITA. I switched to the Aquarian super2 w/pwerdot and it helped a great deal, but still wasn't happy, after lots of trial and error I got where I'm satisfied by doing exactly what you described here but not 100%. I'm still using the single ply reso heads, would it help further to change to a thicker reso head? It's only the floor tom, 16" btw.
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