Drum Dial

[silverdisk]

Drum Dial..?


anyone use it........?



will it allow drum tuning idiot to tune?


thanks in advance

[joeq]

Originally Posted by silverdisk

Drum Dial..?


anyone use it........?

I use it

will it allow drum tuning idiot to tune?

not really. It will get you in the ballpark. It will keep you from getting fooled by overtones, it will help you "get back" to a tuning.

I have always found drum tuning to be hard work. Or at least slow tedious work. Professor Sound has helped immensely. The drum dial helps a bit too.

[cfjis]

Originally Posted by joeq

not really. It will get you in the ballpark. It will keep you from getting fooled by overtones, it will help you "get back" to a tuning.

Exactly.

I've done a fair amount of touring drum tech work, and found drum dials helpful in speeding up the process... but, there is a certain amount of feel that you have to use in getting a drum tuned that the dial doesn't necessarily do.

The fact remains that tuning drums is pretty hard... and the drum dial is a tool to help, but not really "The Answer."

My hint for the dial:
Go around all the lugs at least twice, loosening and then re-tightening each of them to get a better balance of tension between lugs.

Cheers,
CJ