Re: Broke a reso head this morning
Originally Posted by
crispycritters
It is bizarre that a genuine Remo should fail just by cranking up to 90. I'm not particularly a Remo fanboy - 2 of my snares have hazy ambo snare side, 5 have Evans hazy 300, but I have never experienced failure by tuning to this tension with either manufacturer and I've frequently gone up to a reading of 90 without incident.
Both of these heads seem to have torn away at the point they contact the metal ring - the area where the soldered snare butts contact the head seem to be intact (if it is caused by a sharp snare wire end I would expect to see a tear in this area).
Did you check the calibration of the Drumdial before using? If you started with a false initial reading maybe you were tightening more than you thought. I have previously made the mistake of checking the calibration using a glass shelf of a piece of furniture, after tuning my toms batters by reading they were considerably higher than normal and I was getting lots of sympathetic snare side sympathetic resonance. I rechecked the DD in several places of the same glass shelf and got a different reading in each place - the glass sheet I used was bending in the centre under its own weight! - the reading in the centre of the sheet was 3 points lower than the reading at the edges due to the glass bending. Are you sure the surface you use to calibrate is perfectly flat?
That's a very good point! I've actually never calibrated my Drumdial. I guess I should do that! I assume the instructions to do so are in the box?
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