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Matt Bo Eder
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I wonder if this has happened to anyone else. It has only happened to me twice now.
On my new Ludwig Signet Gigabeat kit, for the life of me, the 14x14 floor tom only sounded good with both the stock heads and when I replaced them with a coated emperor on top and clear ambassador on the bottom, with a high jazz tuning. No problem going for that tone. But I had a helluva time getting it tuned down low and meaty - and for a couple of days I was pondering if I inherited a lemon drum. Literally, that whole first week I had it, I de-tuned, removed heads, started over, and it would only sing tuned up higher than I'd like.
Today, after I let the kit sit for a couple of days because I was working and couldn't play them since I get home really late, I went at the floor tom again, and surprisingly, it tuned down. Now it tuned to a nice meaty pitch. I dropped the tuning of my rack tom too, and now the kit is displaying to me what it should be able to do: be tuned at any range and sound good.
Like I said, this only happened to me once before long ago with a bad set of drums, so I expected it there. But I was kinda' disappointed my new Signet floor tom wouldn't tune low, and thought I'd be limited to a Elvin Jones sound (not a bad sound, just not good if you want to play Eagle's music). Now, it suddenly tuned and went to where I wanted it to go. Am I crazy? I know how to tune, so it couldn't be that. Gremlins, perhaps? I dunno.
On my new Ludwig Signet Gigabeat kit, for the life of me, the 14x14 floor tom only sounded good with both the stock heads and when I replaced them with a coated emperor on top and clear ambassador on the bottom, with a high jazz tuning. No problem going for that tone. But I had a helluva time getting it tuned down low and meaty - and for a couple of days I was pondering if I inherited a lemon drum. Literally, that whole first week I had it, I de-tuned, removed heads, started over, and it would only sing tuned up higher than I'd like.
Today, after I let the kit sit for a couple of days because I was working and couldn't play them since I get home really late, I went at the floor tom again, and surprisingly, it tuned down. Now it tuned to a nice meaty pitch. I dropped the tuning of my rack tom too, and now the kit is displaying to me what it should be able to do: be tuned at any range and sound good.
Like I said, this only happened to me once before long ago with a bad set of drums, so I expected it there. But I was kinda' disappointed my new Signet floor tom wouldn't tune low, and thought I'd be limited to a Elvin Jones sound (not a bad sound, just not good if you want to play Eagle's music). Now, it suddenly tuned and went to where I wanted it to go. Am I crazy? I know how to tune, so it couldn't be that. Gremlins, perhaps? I dunno.