roncadillac
Platinum Member
Tama club jam mini 18x7 bass drum
I'm not a tuning pro by any means but I rarely have trouble with any drum I come across. I've tried several different reso heads (new, old, ported, not ported, coated, clear, etc), tuning with and without the batter head on, rotating the hoop, checking the edges... Everything. No matter what I do I always have two opposing lugs (8 lugs total so let's say 1 o'clock and 7 o'clock for example) that are just flat and dead. I absolutely cannot tweak them to go in tune with the rest of the lugs. Even if I crank them to severely raise the pitch, they never go in tune with the other lugs nor ever increase the sustain or ring... Just a slight higher pitched dead tone. I really don't know what to do. I've spent so many hours (and so much money... Seriously, more on heads then my actual drums at this point) for this issue to never go away. Any suggestions besides throwing the damn thing out my window and turning it into a backyard fire ring?
I'm not a tuning pro by any means but I rarely have trouble with any drum I come across. I've tried several different reso heads (new, old, ported, not ported, coated, clear, etc), tuning with and without the batter head on, rotating the hoop, checking the edges... Everything. No matter what I do I always have two opposing lugs (8 lugs total so let's say 1 o'clock and 7 o'clock for example) that are just flat and dead. I absolutely cannot tweak them to go in tune with the rest of the lugs. Even if I crank them to severely raise the pitch, they never go in tune with the other lugs nor ever increase the sustain or ring... Just a slight higher pitched dead tone. I really don't know what to do. I've spent so many hours (and so much money... Seriously, more on heads then my actual drums at this point) for this issue to never go away. Any suggestions besides throwing the damn thing out my window and turning it into a backyard fire ring?