Rochelle Rochelle
Senior Member
So a few days ago I felt my toms sounded terrible and needed a retuning. I also decided to finally replace the reso heads which were the original ones. I received the package of heads yesterday and set out to replace and tune. That took about an hour. I'm terrible at tuning and still don't think they sound right.
Then before I put them back, I decided to yet again try and get things setup better for my small stature (5'3"). I have my toms on a stand instead of mounted on the bass drum. I messed around with the placement, height, tilt, etc for quite a while never getting it any better than it was. I also repositioned the ride since I was having trouble reaching the bell comfortably.
A few more hours in now I decide to put the toms back to where they were before. Given that I'm totally OCD/anal about things, I couldn't quite figure out how I had them before and tinkered for a while finally finding a picture to sort of guide me. I never quite got them back and that bugs me!
Now the ride was at a good position but it stuck out too far over the floor tom and I kept hitting it accidentally. So I had to reposition. I'm still not satisfied and I got in no practice yesterday. So much wasted time to OCD...
Today I finally sat down to practice and messed with the tom tuning again and still not to my liking. I just decided to deal with it so at least I could practice while my son is in preschool.
Ugh!
Then before I put them back, I decided to yet again try and get things setup better for my small stature (5'3"). I have my toms on a stand instead of mounted on the bass drum. I messed around with the placement, height, tilt, etc for quite a while never getting it any better than it was. I also repositioned the ride since I was having trouble reaching the bell comfortably.
A few more hours in now I decide to put the toms back to where they were before. Given that I'm totally OCD/anal about things, I couldn't quite figure out how I had them before and tinkered for a while finally finding a picture to sort of guide me. I never quite got them back and that bugs me!
Now the ride was at a good position but it stuck out too far over the floor tom and I kept hitting it accidentally. So I had to reposition. I'm still not satisfied and I got in no practice yesterday. So much wasted time to OCD...
Today I finally sat down to practice and messed with the tom tuning again and still not to my liking. I just decided to deal with it so at least I could practice while my son is in preschool.
Ugh!