Floor Tom Isolation Mounts

Are any of you using them,is there a noticeable difference in shell resonance when mounted to a floor tom and what brand would you recommend. My shells are Rogers 5 ply and the 13" with out the factory mounting hardware and wrap is so much more responsive by the lightest touch adding a longer sustain and a tab brighter in tone which I prefer in toms.

Hard to tell from your post what you're using now (or indeed what you're proposing), so before/after impossible to predict.

But if you're using legs on actual floor toms, these are the {censored}:

Pearl R40 floor tom feet. $10/set. Best $20 I ever spent on the kit (two floors).

Not quite as good as a suspension mount, but if your floor has legs and you don't want to screw with the hardware, this is the way to go. My floors sustain every bit as much as the racks with them.

I put foam under mine. Same result, but it's cheaper.

+1 on the Pearl feet, although I've been known to use foam under the legs as well.

Foam, and the iso feet?

I haven't actually tried them together, although I think the foam works well enough just under one normal leg.

I am not 100% sure that I like the added resonance, so mine is on and off a lot.

Im not 100% sure that I like the added resonance either. I loooove it for a pure acoustic setting though. I went into a recording session with a floor tom that I thought sounded great with alot of resonance and sustain. It turned out to be a nightmare. The drum rang way too long and the mics picked up on the drum vibrating when the kick was hit. Acoustically, I loved the tone and ring but it made things really hard on the engineer.

Even without the fancy feet, floors usually ring too long for the studio.

For live unmiked, though, that's just what you want.

Yep. When I close-mic record, I watch my floor tom use, and usually slap some tape or something on the drum. My favorite recording teqnuqie right now is just using a room mic to record the drums, it is harder to mix to perfection, but I simply love the sound of it.

I like to maximize the resonance of the drums. Inhibiting vibration cuts down on sustain, but the ringing overtones continue, which I find kind of nasty. At least if my drum is very resonant, I can muffle them to cut down on sustain and ring instead of simply having a thud and some ring.

Hard to tell from your post what you're using now (or indeed what you're proposing), so before/after impossible to predict. But if you're using legs on actual floor toms, these are the {censored}: Pearl R40 floor tom feet. $10/set. Best $20 I ever spent on the kit (two floors). Not quite as good as a suspension mount, but if your floor has legs and you don't want to screw with the hardware, this is the way to go. My floors sustain every bit as much as the racks with them.

My set will be mostly for home gigs un-mic and what I'm trying to achieve is a balance in sustain between the 13 and 16 toms and after purchasing a RIMs mount for the 13 tom today,the 13 blends in perfectly with FT now but as inexpensive as those Pearl rubber feet isolators are i'm gonna order some soon,so thanks for the tip and advice:thu: