i dont know if its my playing or if its the way i tune (im pretty sure i tune it correctly, i tune timpanis at skool all the time and they sound awsome) but i'll play at home on my kit and play along to some of my favourite songs and ill have to retune every half dozen songs around one knob (the same knob all the time) ill have to crank it 1.5-2 full turns to restore the sound. so what? style of playing (i play a lot of Muse and Blink songs), tuning or is it my snare drum its self (yamaha snare that came with the basic rydeen, with remo ambassador heads). HELP ME ITS ANNOYING!!!