Hi to all! and a drumming question!

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Hey guys, great to be here, I've been drumming for about 10 years
and drum in metal/rock/thrash/punk/jazz and occasionally do drum and bass and latin. I sing,drum and play keys in my latest band and I also act, make films and score movies, if your bored check my bands space:
www.myspace.com/hearsemusic
anyyyyyway, enough about me, now is my question.
I ussally use a roland td3 but i just got an acoustic kit from gear4musis
and it sounds cool, only a few problems. how do i dampen the sound of the toms and bass? is putting cushions inside a good idea?
they seem to go 'dooooooooooiiiiing' when i hit them and im looking for a more rock band sound. any ideas? thank you!
 
Tuning is probably the best idea. Other than that try a small pillow in the kick and moon gels on the toms.
 
You can also use small piece of electrical tape in a pinch. Get a about a 3 inch piece, fold about 1/2-3/4" crease in the middle and stick the rest right on the head. Ive seen several stage technicians do this at live shows where drums are being mic'ed
 
beatmstrj said:
You can also use small piece of electrical tape in a pinch. Get a about a 3 inch piece, fold about 1/2-3/4" crease in the middle and stick the rest right on the head. Ive seen several stage technicians do this at live shows where drums are being mic'ed
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tried & tested indeed. Have you replaced the heads from buying the kit?? sometimes the heads supplied can be rather thin & nasty sounding. You might want to try a thicker skin on the toms like remo pinstripes
 
For bass drum it is very common to place a pillow or a blanket partially against the batter head.

For toms tape can be a solution, however, I always recommend masking tape rather than duct tape or electical tape (much less tape residue).

A technique that goes back decades is to take one square of toilet paper and keep folding it until you have a small thick square (about 2" x 2") then tape that down with masking tape. Often, if you only tape one side, the paper will briefly lift off the head at time of impact and then quickly settle down. This allows a brief amount of head resonance before the muting takes affect.

Or - go to a music store and buy a container of Moon Gel - very cool for muting drum heads.

While I agree proper tuning if the proper place to statr to reduce ring, sometimes you simply need a little extra treatment.
 
I reccommend a cheap small pillow in the bottom of bass drum (shouldnt cover more than 1/4 of the drum, touching the batter and reasonate heads.

Tight Tuning on all drums

Moongel on the rims (experiment) to rid any unwated damping.

Depending on what kinda style your playing, i also duct tape the bottom of the snare (resonate head) with a 3 x 3 " piece to help reduce the ringing.

Hope This Helps

Farmer
 
Or you can just buy some new Evans Genera 2 heads for your toms and youll be good to go. I dont think you could get those things to sound bad if you tried (unless you really know what youre doing).
 
For bass drum: Paintcan!

That's right, a ONE GALLON PAINT CAN. ...Full! ....on a towel in the middle of the drum.

Tune the batter head to flappy and then tighten out the wrinkles. tighten the reso just a tad more than the batter. Use a felt beater.

Then roll up a shop towel and tape it to the shell (that's right, the shell) so that it touches the batter head. Now stick your kick mic 3 inches inside the front hole.

It will sound like this:



(No, this isn't a finished track. Those aren't even the drums that will be used. It's just a level test to rough tracks.)
 
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