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Dr. Mordo · 3rd July 2009

It's all about tuning. Use 2-ply heads, tune the top head way down to almost floppy. Muffle it to the point of cardboard, then add gated reverb to taste.

I bet any 5 - 6.5 inch deep drum would work, you just might want to run the snares a bit looser on the shallower drum. The depth primarily affects the way the snares react to your strike. On a deeper drum, less force makes it to the snares, so you get less snare response. So to make a 5 inch drum sound like a 6.5, you run the snares looser to lessen the snare response a bit. It's not the exact same sound, but you can get close.

3rd July 2009	#2
Dr. Mordo Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Pensacola, FL Posts: 766	It's all about tuning. Use 2-ply heads, tune the top head way down to almost floppy. Muffle it to the point of cardboard, then add gated reverb to taste. I bet any 5 - 6.5 inch deep drum would work, you just might want to run the snares a bit looser on the shallower drum. The depth primarily affects the way the snares react to your strike. On a deeper drum, less force makes it to the snares, so you get less snare response. So to make a 5 inch drum sound like a 6.5, you run the snares looser to lessen the snare response a bit. It's not the exact same sound, but you can get close.