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Thoughts from a user:
I’d been a religious Gauger RIMS mount user for 30 years until just recently. After a million gigs (including tech work) where I had to strangle beautiful sounding drums to death to satisfy the FOH guy, I decided I was done with sustain and resonance forever. Just gonna use whatever mount the drum has, and isolation be damned!
Worked well for me for a few months, as I owned drums that weren’t severely affected by not having RIMS mounts. No harm, no foul. What I don’t know won’t hurt me, right?
Fast forward to now, and I just picked up an 80’s Yamaha Tour Custom in great sizes and pretty much the perfect set. The mounted tom, though, will only say, “doink!”. Tried every fix I could think of in my 40 years of drumming and nothing helped. Knew immediately that I needed me some Gauger.
Sure enough, the second I got the Gauger RIMS installed, the Tour Custom tom became what it was meant to be. I think I’m happier strangling an overly-resonant tom than I am trying to find resonance in an overly-dead tom. As always, your mileage may vary.
I’d been a religious Gauger RIMS mount user for 30 years until just recently. After a million gigs (including tech work) where I had to strangle beautiful sounding drums to death to satisfy the FOH guy, I decided I was done with sustain and resonance forever. Just gonna use whatever mount the drum has, and isolation be damned!
Worked well for me for a few months, as I owned drums that weren’t severely affected by not having RIMS mounts. No harm, no foul. What I don’t know won’t hurt me, right?
Fast forward to now, and I just picked up an 80’s Yamaha Tour Custom in great sizes and pretty much the perfect set. The mounted tom, though, will only say, “doink!”. Tried every fix I could think of in my 40 years of drumming and nothing helped. Knew immediately that I needed me some Gauger.
Sure enough, the second I got the Gauger RIMS installed, the Tour Custom tom became what it was meant to be. I think I’m happier strangling an overly-resonant tom than I am trying to find resonance in an overly-dead tom. As always, your mileage may vary.