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If you followed prof.sound's advice to the letter, you could get a drum tuned in about a month. A whole kit would take perhaps a year, given that he doesn't have any odd requirements for cymbal tuning, which I definitely wouldn't put past him. Seriously, 1/16th of a turn each time, with testing? Talk about "listener fatigue". And what's this hair dryer crap? He ought be feathering his mullet more and heating his heads less.
I can't believe how preposterously full of himself prof.sound is. On the subject of buying cymbals, he says,
You should pick cymbals in this order. Hi-Hat, Ride, Primary crash, Secondary Crash, special effects (china, splash, etc.) This too is important. If you intend to ultimately replace all your cymbals, first pick a new set of hats because you need to blend from there. Otherwise, move through the above list in the order given. If you blend from a current setup, then you'll never achieve your long-term goals.
"Long-term goals", eh? He sounds more like a Scientologist than a drummer.
So, both heads to the same pitch, all the time?I don't necessarily agree with that. Snare definitely not (I usually like the bottom head lower than the top). Toms maybe, but I also find a major third apart can sound really good (again I prefer the bottom head lower).
Regarding Prof. Sound: like I said, I don't actually go to those extremes, but I did find it helpful to try his methods outa few times because I learned to be more sensitive to drum tuning in general in the process.
BTW, tuning in small increments when you're using a new head is a good idea, otherwise it's really really easy to get it way out of tune with itself and then it gets hard to find your way back.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 10 July 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
twelve years pass...