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.

Tuning floor tom into bass drum. 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. This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty. Well you can t just put a bass drum head on it so here was m. 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.

Support sounds like a drum on patreon. Replace two of the three floor tom legs click to enlarge. 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. 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 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. A lot of factors go into tuning a bass drum including the type of heads the use of cutouts in the resonant head and the type and amount of damping. For my floor tom i prefer to tune batter and resonant head the same.

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. But it still sounded like a floor tom. Now fit the bass drum bracket from the jungle kit into the optimount. If you were meaning an attacky punchy bass drum get a blanket and stuff it in there just touching the head.