Snare drum fine tunning.. PLEASE HELP!

Beaner94 · #1 01-19-2010, 06:09 PM

hello everyone, i have been looking for a good snare for over 2 years now, i recently bought the pearl piccolo steel snare, i like it a lot, its pretty good, but i have one concern....

is there anyway to get rid of the bouncing sound of the snares that you get after hitting a tom, or the bass drum?? i dont know if u get what im saying, sometimes ill be hitting my toms, and the snares will be bouncing and i know that a lot of drummers like that, but i dont, i got my snares pretty tight, cause its the sound that pleased me, but i am so tired of trying new stuff, i just need some good advice, also when im playing with my band, and smeone plays certain noteso n the guitar, the snares will start moving, how do i get rid of that..

also when i hit my snare, theres a lot of "after resonance" i dont know taht you call it, after i hit it, the snares will keep on shaking, how do i stop this?? please help

mrmike · #2 01-19-2010, 06:18 PM

Try these. http://store.daddario.com/category/1...&currency_id=1

I put them on a problem snare and they really do cut down sympathetic buzz with plenty of snare sound.

Beaner94 · #3 01-19-2010, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmike

Try these. http://store.daddario.com/category/1...&currency_id=1

I put them on a problem snare and they really do cut down sympathetic buzz with plenty of snare sound.

thanks ill give them a shot, but you know what i just did? i got my snare really tight, and the snares are pretty tight too, i mean a lot, i know its kinda bad, but wow! sounds awesome, i have a wood and a metal snare, holy **** they both sound awesome now,

Filacterua · #4 01-19-2010, 08:52 PM

First of all, it sounds to me like you may have worn snare wires. A good set of wires (even without tension) needs to look nice and straight, like so:

Also, they must sit straight and flat on your snare's bottom head - like so:

If your wires are curvy and can't sit flat, they will give you lots of buzzing and will require unhealthy levels of tension to sound tight. This harms the strainer mechanism, the head and sometimes even the shell.

I would advise to take a close look at the wires see if they need replacing. Also, whatever buzzing is left after proper tuning and setup (which is usually minmal) is usually drowned out by the rest of the kit and the band.

Cheers!

zambizzi · #5 01-19-2010, 09:57 PM

You're never, ever going to get rid of snare buzz. After a while you'll learn to ignore it and it just becomes part of your kit's sound.

When playing w/ the band, it helps not to have their amps pointed directly at your kit, as well. You won't eliminate it but it will be as minimal as possible.

Drums&Beer · #6 01-19-2010, 10:09 PM

I little more info on this - If you have another drum in the kit that's setting the snare buzz off more than the others you can alleviate some of the buzz by tuning the offending drum (a rack tom hypothetically speaking) to a pitch that's not sympathetic to the snare's pitch or vice-versa. This will help some, but as zambizzi pointed out, this is something that to a certain degree, you have to get over as you will always have a bit of it.

I have a Brady snare with a bit more buzz than all my others, especially when I strike my 12" tom. But I have come to love it because this snare's optimal pitch just so happens to be sympathetic to the pitch that's best for my 12" tom. No big deal really.

audiotech · #7 01-19-2010, 11:16 PM

I try to minimize sympathetic snare buzz as much as possible, but as said before, you'll never completely rid yourself of it. Depending on the tuning of your other drums, it could be any one or a combination that's influential and causing the buzz. The only time it's really irritating for me is when I'm closely miking each drum on the kits, I try to keep everything as surgically clean as possible in the signal path and I don't want to hear the snare when I'm hitting one of my toms.

Dennis