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.

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. 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. I don t know if it would require extra drilling or not but i have some tom legs already. 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.

A good starting point is to tune the lug frequency of the resonant head a perfect fifth higher than that of the batter head. But it still sounded like a floor tom. 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. 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.

For my floor tom i prefer to tune batter and resonant head the same. I recently converted a 16 floor tom into a bass drum. With mine i have it touching both heads as well as having a falam slam patch on the. The higher toms and bass drum i take the reso s up a notch but with the floor tom i prefer same tension.

Now fit the bass drum bracket from the jungle kit into the optimount. Well you can t just put a bass drum head on it so here was m. Replace two of the three floor tom legs click to enlarge. This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty.