ok...so on the snare side, do you have the "rods" tensioned evenly, or the pitch at each lug even...the problem I am running into, and its not really a problem more of a nagging question is that I just put on a new emperor snare side head on my Geo. Way 14x6.5 snare drum and I think the snare beds are so deep and well made that in order to have the pitch be the same, the rods next to the bed have to be much tighter than the surrounding rods. So I don't know if I should ignore getting the pitch the same and focus on having more or less the same tension...or get the pitch the same and have the tension tighter around the bed...hmmm....orrrrrrrr, I could do the method of loosening the rods adjacent to the bed as stated in a previous thread, (I even heard that a very prominent nashville cat...name escapes me right now...completely removes the tension rods next to the bed)...im at a loss....hmmmmmm....(BTW I want a super fat snare sound...i.e. Steve Jordan)