That is exactly the problem.
The snare basket actually chokes the bottom head and causes it to be outta tune and lose resonance...
Is your snare out of tune because you put it on a snare stand ? no.
having it on a stand will not affect tuning unless you slam the stand into to bottom head.
Also, a snare stand will not choke the tom more than suspension mount, if you don't over tighten it and only let the bottom rim touch it, don't tighten it onto the shell.
pros
-You can keep you bass drum virgin
-You can place your tom independently from yout left sire ride (or crash..) (when you attach your tom to your cymbal stand, it makes it harder to position both correctly)
Cons
- It can be a bit far away if you have a big bass drum
- positionning over the bass drum is also limited, but not a problem if you have a 16"-20" bass drum
- the stand adds weight to your hardware bag
Resonance is indeed choked IMO from mounting a tom on a snare stand..
A virgin bass drum has NO holes drilled into it to facilitate a mounting bracket. If you have a tom mounting bracket on your kick drum, your kick is not virgin..sorry.
Anyways, just to say that I don't think ether one has a greater resonance (basket vs rims mount (the pearl ISS mounts definitely cut resonance)) but the basket allows the tom to be positioned freely from the left side cymbal, and is good with smaller bass drums.
well I don't know about his kit, I was talking more in general, my bass drums are virgin..
when I mount the tom on the basket, I put the basket right under the flange of the rim.
The basket has 3 contact points at the rim and holds it uniformly as opposed to the rims mount that has 4 contact points and does not support the tom all around.. or other mounts like the pearl ISS who has only 2 contact points but puts a lot of stress on that side of the tom.
Anyways, just to say that I don't think ether one has a greater resonance (basket vs rims mount (the pearl ISS mounts definitely cut resonance)) but the basket allows the tom to be positioned freely from the left side cymbal, and is good with smaller bass drums.