Floor Tom Tuning For Recording

If the floor tom has an undesirable basketball type after ring try this.

Floor tom tuning for recording.

Yes let it be in a position where you could easily play it. Hopefully this helps here s the most important thing. Loosen the bottom head. 2 the ubiquitous rock kit.

Then you can determine a tuning scheme using notes. Watch a free lesson today. Support sounds like a drum on patreon. Hi everyone i do some home recording stuff for myself and my band and have been doing it for some time now.

Grab those toms you ve been having trouble tuning forever. Have the bearing edges checked and recut as required. This is the kit for loud edgy rock music. Available with seamless streaming across your devices.

My set up is drum mics saffire pro 40 interface macbook pro with logic. A fascinating yet possibly surprising idea for tuning a drum kit is to tune its various different pieces to suit the key of a specific song. There is one problem i am having at the moment that never used to be a problem but has popped up. Get started on your creative journey with the best in creative education taught by world class instructors.

Headphones recommended for workshop the title is pretty self explanatory. Tuning a floor tom of studio pass with tommy rogers and jamie king on creativelive. Check the evenness of tension all around on the top and bottom heads. I use three primary kits for recording.

1 a bebop kit with its toms tuned up high 10 tom tom and 14 floor tom. These toms are suitable for jazz and not much else as they have a very distinct sound. When trying to tune the batter head of a floor tom try to do it in its natural environment. It s even possible to use chromatically tuned toms and cymbals by choosing appropriately pitched cymbals or buying pre matched sets so that the drums become a pitched instrument.

Join jamie king tommy rogers for lesson 2. Never force a drum to play a note out of its best range or you will have an uneven so. When tuning most toms you ll find a level where the head will sound warm and bright across its surface. We re gonna get them.

Toms tuning tips check the top heads for dents and replace as necessary.