Hi everyone:
I just received a DW Performance Series kit, and this being my first kit and all, my instructor is going to help me with setup, but since he's currently away on vacation, I'm getting started on my own. So this is a newbie setup question.
The kit came with a rack-tom mount that mounts on top of the bass drum. It looks like a dwsm992 which you can see on this page. So here's the question. Does it go on with the auxiliary clamp facing back (toward the drummer, between the 2 rack toms) or facing forward (toward the front head of the bass drum). If I put it on facing back, the bolts on the auxiliary clamp stick out dangerously between the 2 rack toms, just asking for a disaster. If I put it on facing forward, then the rack toms end up positioned (what seems to me to be) too far back, encroaching on top of the snare drum.
I've looked around the web for pictures to help, but all of the pictures that I could find always show the Performance Series kit with the rack toms mounted off of cymbal stands. I can't find any pictures of a Performance Series kit with the rack toms mounted on the bass drum. That my kit came with the rack-tom mount on top of the bass drum came as a surprise to me.
Anyways, thanks for any help.
-- Bobby
I just received a DW Performance Series kit, and this being my first kit and all, my instructor is going to help me with setup, but since he's currently away on vacation, I'm getting started on my own. So this is a newbie setup question.
The kit came with a rack-tom mount that mounts on top of the bass drum. It looks like a dwsm992 which you can see on this page. So here's the question. Does it go on with the auxiliary clamp facing back (toward the drummer, between the 2 rack toms) or facing forward (toward the front head of the bass drum). If I put it on facing back, the bolts on the auxiliary clamp stick out dangerously between the 2 rack toms, just asking for a disaster. If I put it on facing forward, then the rack toms end up positioned (what seems to me to be) too far back, encroaching on top of the snare drum.
I've looked around the web for pictures to help, but all of the pictures that I could find always show the Performance Series kit with the rack toms mounted off of cymbal stands. I can't find any pictures of a Performance Series kit with the rack toms mounted on the bass drum. That my kit came with the rack-tom mount on top of the bass drum came as a surprise to me.
Anyways, thanks for any help.
-- Bobby