Hi there,
How's it goin. I'm relatively new to the drums, and I was wondering if someone could help me with these rookie questions. Many, many thanks....
1.) Once I place brand-new heads (resonant and batter) on a drum, how often can I tune and re-tune individual drums to achieve different sounds? I don’t plan on re-tuning every week, it's just that I'd like to be able to change the drum sounds every once in a while. Will re-tuning too often cause the heads to go "dead" and/or lose their "punch"?
2.) Do the toms need to be "seated" using the same method as seating the snare (fist in center of head, put all your weight on it)? Or, can I skip the "seating process" with toms? If I do need to "seat" the tom drum, must I seat both the batter and the resonant side?
3.) I recently messed up by putting on a brand new batter-side head, tuning it, and then realizing that I forgot to put the "half-circle mounting arm" piece on first! Would it mess up the head if I took the lugs off completely, removed the new head, put the "mounting arm" on, and then re-tuned the drum? I haven't played or used the drum at all yet - I put it on last night (Sat. 2/12/10).
Thanks again,
rbracch
How's it goin. I'm relatively new to the drums, and I was wondering if someone could help me with these rookie questions. Many, many thanks....
1.) Once I place brand-new heads (resonant and batter) on a drum, how often can I tune and re-tune individual drums to achieve different sounds? I don’t plan on re-tuning every week, it's just that I'd like to be able to change the drum sounds every once in a while. Will re-tuning too often cause the heads to go "dead" and/or lose their "punch"?
2.) Do the toms need to be "seated" using the same method as seating the snare (fist in center of head, put all your weight on it)? Or, can I skip the "seating process" with toms? If I do need to "seat" the tom drum, must I seat both the batter and the resonant side?
3.) I recently messed up by putting on a brand new batter-side head, tuning it, and then realizing that I forgot to put the "half-circle mounting arm" piece on first! Would it mess up the head if I took the lugs off completely, removed the new head, put the "mounting arm" on, and then re-tuned the drum? I haven't played or used the drum at all yet - I put it on last night (Sat. 2/12/10).
Thanks again,
rbracch