Tuning Floor Tom Into Bass Drum

With mine i have it touching both heads as well as having a falam slam patch on the.

Tuning floor tom into bass drum.

Now fit the bass drum bracket from the jungle kit into the optimount. A good starting point is to tune the lug frequency of the resonant head a perfect fifth higher than that of the batter head. Well you can t just put a bass drum head on it so here was m. 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.

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 don t know if it would require extra drilling or not but i have some tom legs already. If you were meaning an attacky punchy bass drum get a blanket and stuff it in there just touching the head. 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.

Replace two of the three floor tom legs click to enlarge. I recently converted a 16 floor tom into a 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. For my floor tom i prefer to tune batter and resonant head the same.

This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty. But it still sounded like a floor tom. 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. 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.