wolfmoon
Silver Member
Also drums tuned beautifully in one room can sound like poo in another room. Standing waves, sound reflecting or sound absoring surfaces in the room, phase cancellation, comb filtering, drumhead choice, ceiling height, who knows even humidity, and many other things all factor in. In a Guitar Center, when you hit a drum, every drum in the general vicinity is subtly adding to the sound with sympathetic vibrations. Not the best place to evaluate a drums sound. A basic understanding of acoustics is helpful when trying to acheive great drum sounds. Guitar players have it easy. Just another unsung thing that goes into a great sounding drum performance, the drummers tuning ability. What is needed is a room frequency analyzer that talks to wireless motorized lugs that tune your drums automatically to compensate for different and changing room acoustics. I'll get right on that one.
100 % true.. This isn't mentioned enough sometimes. I have those heavy blue moving blankets lining the room from floor to ceiling in my basement where my sons drums are set up. This isn't soundproofing but without them every hit on any drum sounds like a gunshot. It's entertaining for a song or so but that's it. With the blankets up, all you hear is the sound of the drum. Big big big difference to actually hear the sound of a drum and NOT the drum and the concrete room. I never have a problem tuning anything down there... it's so easy to hear a clean pitch with no room reflections.. The only drum that gives me any agony is this steel Tama picilo that I bought him for his bday a few years ago. Sorry to say that thing just simply looks better than it sounds.