Sorry, didn't mean to kill the conversation.
Just trying to help.


Gundorps




--- In drumzillaslair@yahoogroups.com, "gundorps" <gundorps@...> wrote:
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> Seems not all of my reply made it into the post, so here's the rest of it....
>
> Depth can effect the presence and where in that note range the drum will
prefer to speak in.
> Deeper snare drums tend to sound a bit darker and want to speak in the lower
range of that range of notes.
> A "deeper" sound, if you will.
> Presence is effected because the material used to contruct the drum has a
greater distance to span and its increased size yields greater mass. This
creates a situation where the drum is less resistant to movement, thus the whole
thing becomes more "wobbly", if you will, making the whole unit more of a "sound
enhancer", as opposed to the smaller, shallower snare drum, which would more
resistant to movement, thus the sound has to penetrate drum more, in order to
reach your ears (hopefully that makes sense).
> The shorter version is that your 14x4 should be more sensitive and eminate a
brighter sound, compared to your 14x5, but because of the materials they're made
of, you might not notice it as much as you would if both drums were made of the
same material.
>
> Re: tuning
> Tuning is generally a rather personal thing. Everyone wants their drums to
sound a certain way.
> It's their "voice".
> There are situations where a different sound than what you might prefer is
needed (such as a "suggestion" from a producer during a recording project).
> Putting that particular situation by the wayside, though, I think most people
tune mainly for sound, with feel coming in second.
> It seems most people feel a very staccatto sound needs to come from a snare
drum, so they'll have a tendency to tension the heads much tighter (compared to
the rest of the kit) in order to help achieve this.
> What I've found out is that if you tune the snare drum like the rest of your
toms (i.e., more relaxed tension of the heads and snare), the drum speaks
"nicer" to my ears.
> If I need to dry it out, I'll tape my wallet to the batter head, or throw a
muffling ring on it.
> Makes the drum more versatile (in my mind) doing it that way, as well, because
you now have a wider array of sound characteristics at your disposal, that can
be changed very quickly.
>
> Ok, I think that about covers it.
> Hope you found this helpful.
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> Gundorps
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