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There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead.. 
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Post There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead..
Goddamnit.
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Head suggestions?
Should I just replace both heads on my hi-toms (maybe even my lo-tom too)?


It'll be fine for a few more days of playing, but with the way I play (beat the fuck out of everything) it will eventually rip.

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Post Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
Yeah, unless they are pretty new, just replace all of them, IMO. Save the old ones as spares for the next time.

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Post Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
Alright, will do.

Any tips on tuning the toms..?

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Post Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
Well, the only advice I can give is the approach I take, that works for me.


I like clear double ply heads. Like Remo Emperors, or Evans G2. They have the combination of open-ness and focus I like. They have just a spot of tape on them to keep them tame. I tune both sides of the drum to the same pitch, maybe with the resonant side (rear) slightly lower in pitch. For fine details in how to go about tuning you might as well watch a nerdy youtube tutorial... Also, I generally tune really low for that phat sound. Low as in, I tune slightly higher than the point where the tom starts to make a 'fart' sound instead of a proper sound.

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Post Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
Broseidon wrote:
Alright, will do.

Any tips on tuning the toms..?


Same as the kick really. Depending on what kind of tome sound you like, you can do it a couplefew different ways.

Very roughly:

1. If i want the toms to go POING then i tune either both heads medium high, or you tune the bottom slightly low, and the top higher than it. This is also usually the way that i tune my snare(i.e. lower bottom, cranked to poing top)

2. If i want the toms to go JUDD, then i tune the bottom head medium-ish(sounds like a low POING *almost*, when only the bottom head is one) and then tune the top heads as low as i can get away with. Which is also roughly the way i tune my kick.

The reason for slightly mismatching the tensions top/bottom, is to fine tune the flavor of POING or JUDD, and also to kill some nasty ringing overtones that might pop up, without using tape, or gel, or those shitty "dry" deadened no-ring heads, or any of that shizz.

The main thing is to know what you want to sound like, and then to experiment with a few different things to see what works best for YOU. Generally though, you do NOT want to tighten any head very much. Just enough to make a good sound. Too little and you get no projection, no tone. Too much and the head chokes itself and goes flat and thin.

Even though i say that i crank the shit out of my snare, it is more, in relation to the bottom head, or in comparison with the toms. When i used to tighten it too much back in the day, it sounded terrible.

Experiment to find the noise you want! :huzzah:

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Post Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
Will keep this in mind.
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Post Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
Lube it up and stick your weiner in there

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