Tuning Floor Tom Into Bass Drum

Bass drum tuning a lot of factors go into tuning your bass drum such as the type of heads use of cut outs or kick ports in the resonant head and the type of damping eg a pillow in the drum etc.

Tuning floor tom into bass drum.

The higher toms and bass drum i take the reso s up a notch but with the floor tom i prefer same tension. A good starting point is to tune the lug frequency of the resonant head a perfect fifth 1 5 times higher in frequency than the batter head. Support sounds like a drum on patreon. With mine i have it touching both heads as well as having a falam slam patch on the.

I have a 16 floor tom that i have permanently made into a bass drum also with a clear pinstripe for a batter and a coated ambassador for a reso. This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty. I was wondering if it would be possible to add floor toms legs to a bass drum so that it could be played like a tom. But it still sounded like a floor tom.

A good starting point is to tune the lug frequency of the resonant head a perfect fifth higher than that of the batter head. I took all the hardware off my old kit and stripped the wrap and then refinished it to match my current kit and i want to add the bass drum as sort of a gong drum with legs. I don t know if it would require extra drilling or not but i have some tom legs already. I recently converted a 16 floor tom into a bass drum.

Fit the bass drum pedal mount click to enlarge once this is in position replace the floor tom legs with the bass drum legs and adjust the memory locks to suit the final position. If you were meaning an attacky punchy bass drum get a blanket and stuff it in there just touching the head. Replace two of the three floor tom legs click to enlarge. For my floor tom i prefer to tune batter and resonant head the same.