Thanks for the picture of the TB Studio. I'm doing fine with my TB, though I don't know what version it is. It has a filter button, but no high range functionality that I can tell. But I don't recall any issues reading up to 400Hz for the snare reso readings.
8 pages on the Tune-Bot. Is this a sign we're narrowing down on a perfected solution. Or do we say that, after reaching double-digits, a tool can't possibly be useful if it takes so much effort to master? I'm half-ass kidding of course.
Ah I don't know, I think the tune-bots I bought are maybe the newer models with a cheaper and an expensive version while before there was only 1 version doing it all. The Gig version can't do the job in the 300s Hz but this one can do it, not flawlessly, with the Hi-Range mode still it's pretty good.
It was enough to tell me that the lugs of my resonant head were at 360hz, I thought they were at 398 at least, according to the fundamental note I had.
Previously my snare looked like this:
Fundamental note: F3 - 177hz (Free)
Batter center: F3 - 177hz (Muffled)
Lugs: C4 - 259Hz (Muffled)
Resonant Center: F3 - 175hz (Muffled)
Lugs: F4# 361Hz (Muffled)
After my latest experiment of reducing the tension of the resonant head a bit: (I get strange results)
Fundamental Note: F3 - 177hz (Free)
Batter center: F3 - 175hz (Muffled)
Lugs: C4# - 270Hz (Muffled)
Resonant Center: F3 - 176hz (Muffled)
Lugs: F4 - 340Hz (Muffled)
Don't know what to think of this but the note on the snare, I like it, it goes well with my toms. The fundamental note is almost the same as it was previously.
I tried to tune a snare at the store yesterday and the guy told me that the chains were too tight, I had that same problem here at home and he was right. So I found the lowest possible tension for the snare wires and adjusted them just a bit above until I liked the sound. I had a lack of response from the snare wires at low volume buzzing, they were simply not responding, now they do.
But I can't tell if the difference is caused by the lower lug tension of my reso or in fact if the problem was only related to the wrong tension of the chains themselves.
Frankly I don't see a whole lot of difference in the sound between the resonant lugs at 361 or 340.. perhaps I get more rigning from the snare when hit in the center with the lugs at 340