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Tuning my snare side head and snare shell.


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I bought some heads yesterday and I was doing the Drum Tuning Boogie last night. One thing I noticed on my snare drum is there seems to be a dip in the shell where the snares cross the shell. As a result, the 4 lugs adjactent to the snares need to be tightened more relative to the other lugs - otherwise it's Wrinkle City.

 

Is this typical? Any tips for dealing with this? This makes it difficult for me determine when the head is seated evenly, both sonically and with the drum dial. Do you typically have to have these lugs tighter than the rest to counter the "dip" and resulting wrinkle near those lugs or is my drum jacked?

 

I finger tightened all the lugs, but on the yammies, they "stop" before the lug touches the hoop. After that point, I usually just tighten the lugs until the washers are just touching the hoop. Then I do the methodical 1/4 turn at a time and that's when I noticed the head remaining wrinkled where there seems to be a dip in the shell...

 

I got the batter head tuned up in a jiffy, with no trouble and I'm happy with the evenness of its tone and subsequent response/tension. But yet again, the snare side is giving me fits and the drum sounds ugly unless struck right in the middle. The snares buzz unpleasantly (I've tried multiple tensions) and overall, the drum is not as open as I like. I've gotten varying degrees of openness but even when the drum sounds good with the snares off, when I turn them on they buzz unpleasantly.

 

I'm using an Evans Coated Reverse Power Dot batter and an Ambassador Snare Side (wanted the diplomat, but they no have in stock). On a side note, I'm slapping Evans G2/G1 clear combos on me toms this week....we'll see how that goes.

 

Help a restarded dunbass with his snare please!? :confused:

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You mean the snare bed????? Ye that is supposed to be there....and you may have to tighten lugs differently....though they should be close or you need to take a look at the bearing edge and see if it is flat (other than the snare bed of course).

 

What snare are you talking about?

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Originally posted by steamyz

You mean the snare bed????? Ye that is supposed to be there....and you may have to tighten lugs differently....though they should be close or you need to take a look at the bearing edge and see if it is flat (other than the snare bed of course).


What snare are you talking about?

 

 

Yah, snare bed, I suppose. I figured it was intentional, but there's a definite difference in lug-to-head tension at these 4 lugs vs. the other 6.

 

It's a Yammie Beech Custom Absolute 14"x6.5" Bearing edges are perfect. My difficulty is in dealing with this dip. If I uniformly tighten the lugs the head becomes taught at all points but for where the snares cross. At that point, it takes several turns on the 4 lugs to get rid of the wrinkling. Inevetibely, the pitch and tension at these lugs is never on par with the other six.

 

Thanks.

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I had a wrinkle issue when I replaced my snare side head last time, a hazy remo ambassador. I got really pissed but I loosened the lugs and removed the rim. Then I just kinda moved the head around a little bit to put it in a different spot on the shell and put everything back on. It seated fine and no wrinkles, very weird.

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Originally posted by rumblebelly

I had a wrinkle issue when I replaced my snare side head last time, a hazy remo ambassador. I got really pissed but I loosened the lugs and removed the rim. Then I just kinda moved the head around a little bit to put it in a different spot on the shell and put everything back on. It seated fine and no wrinkles, very weird.

 

Hmm. Maybe I will try that. Thanks.

 

But I've had trouble getting uniform tuning on this drum before, with these 4 lugs vs. the other 6. I just happened to notice the wrinkling this time around and the drum dial shed some light as well.

 

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