dkerwood
Silver Member
Okay, so I haven't been able to play my kit for a couple months. It's set up at church and the last seven or eight weeks I've been assigned to play guitar and someone else plays drums (we've got three drummers and only one electric guitarist). The last time I played, I noticed that my snare head was getting to be pretty dead and that most of the coating had flaked off (I'll never buy Aquarian again), so I threw a new Evans G1 on there. Tuned it, got it sounding pretty good, and then let the other two guys play it for two months.
This morning I finally come up in the drum roster again, so I sat down at my kit and YUCK. The snare sounds like hitting a paper bag, and it now has an awkward metallic ring that I don't remember from before. I checked around the rim and the head is in tune with itself. Similarly checked the reso head and it is in tune with itself. I thought maybe the snares might be too tight and choking the snare, but loosening didn't fix it.
Now let me clarify- I've been playing onstage with these drums for two months and it hasn't bothered me from out front, which tells me it's a very subtle "driver's seat" issue. Further, it sounds good when hit at a moderate to loud volume - it's just the quiet sensitivity that I'm not getting right now.
The snare is an 80's Ludwig 14x5.5 that's aluminum wrapped around a wood shell of some type - they coated the inside so it's hard for me to tell what kind of wood it is. Snare side rim is just a little bit out of round, but not bad.
I've exhausted all of my tricks besides taking the heads all the way slack and starting from scratch. I thought I'd check in here first before trying that, though.
This morning I finally come up in the drum roster again, so I sat down at my kit and YUCK. The snare sounds like hitting a paper bag, and it now has an awkward metallic ring that I don't remember from before. I checked around the rim and the head is in tune with itself. Similarly checked the reso head and it is in tune with itself. I thought maybe the snares might be too tight and choking the snare, but loosening didn't fix it.
Now let me clarify- I've been playing onstage with these drums for two months and it hasn't bothered me from out front, which tells me it's a very subtle "driver's seat" issue. Further, it sounds good when hit at a moderate to loud volume - it's just the quiet sensitivity that I'm not getting right now.
The snare is an 80's Ludwig 14x5.5 that's aluminum wrapped around a wood shell of some type - they coated the inside so it's hard for me to tell what kind of wood it is. Snare side rim is just a little bit out of round, but not bad.
I've exhausted all of my tricks besides taking the heads all the way slack and starting from scratch. I thought I'd check in here first before trying that, though.