drummar-buah said:
AWW COME ON SOME ONE HELP ME!!
Yo buah-drummar, i copied this from my old post SDC, hope this helps abit:
Hi All,
I've been doing alot of drum tuning for friends and members' kit lately and to be frank with you all, most of them did not tune up their kit the correct way.
Tuning up your drum set with new heads/skins is very very important as it'll will determine if you'll get good tone and also, you might damaged your hoops and edges if you tune up the wrong way! YES, it'll damaged your kit.. Why? it's because if you tune your heads unevenly, your hoops will get out of shape and in the long run, so will your bearing edges and you will never get a good tone out of your kit anymore.
OK, personally for me, I'll take off the old head, then I'll clean the bearing edge of the drum and also the hoop(make sure that it's clean and free of residue) with a dry cloth. Next, I'll place the new head/skin on and place the hoop on it. I'll make sure that the hoop sit nice and evenly on the shell I'll start finger tightened the lugs horizontally. Once it's finger-tightened, I'll use both my hands to press the centre of the head gently but firm until the head gives a cracking/stretching sound. The reason for this is to make the new head sit tightly on the bearing edge and to stretch the new head. Don't worry, doing this will not spoil your new head. I'll repeat this steps 2 or 3 times to make sure that the head really sit on the edge and stretched. Once I finish this step, I'll start tuning the head evenly. I'll start at one point with quarter or lesser turn of the key(make sure you apply this to all the lugs to make it even), then I'll tune the rest horizontally and check the tone till I'm satisfied with it. Tune the top and bottom(batter & resonant side) similarly. As a start, tune it to the same tension, this will give you an even tone.
Remember, do not rush changing or tuning your new heads on your set.
Another thing you need to know is that your sticking pattern and the way you hit your drums are very very important too. The correct way is to hit all your drums at the centre to get the full tone, if you hit all around the drums you won't get a full tone, all you get is an uneven tone with lots of irritating sustain.
Hope this help buah!!
Cheers
