Re: There's a hole in the corner of my right hi-tom drumhead
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!