HOW TO TUNE YOUR BASS DRUM

Hi there everyone !
It is finally time to answer a question a lot of you have been asking for a long time !
In this video, I show you how to tune your bass drum with an acoustic head or a mesh head !
I hope this would be helpful for you and see you for the next one about toms’ tuning ! 😉
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[@lorislaruedrummer6739]

jolie vidéo

Merci beaucoup !

[@FSBWS]

Fantastic tutorial, thanks !

Merci beaucoup mon Val' !! :D

[@zachcalder3143]

Hey man, just wanted to say you've done a fantastic job with the cinematography on your videos! The lighting you use looks fantastic, keep up the good work!

Thank you so very much for your kind words !
All the visual is thanks to my friend Phil (@daynightpicture) with whom I am producing my videos since 2018 !
We are doing all we can to always provide beautiful content and always improve our capabilities 🙌🏻
Cheers from France !

[@GwanYTB]

Eh bien merci bien! Tes conseils vont sûrement m'aider quand je vais m'acheter un kit accoustique, je joue sur une électronique depuis trop longtemps.
Ah, je voulais aussi souligner, tes shells sont super propres! On voit que tu prends soins de tes kits

Merci à toi d'avoir regardé ! J'espère que tu vas avoir cette batterie acoustique ! Ca change l'expérience, on ressent les vibrations et la puissance de la batterie 😊
Oh merci ! Oui elle est magnifique et elle est très souvent nettoyée pour avoir toujours ce blanc neige !

[@drumaddict89]

the... it is the, not theee all the way through xD
pretty white shell though :)
nice video. pretty impressive setting
but i do not know if evans heads are glued so push/press them in like remo. since i started using evans about 8 years ago, i never heard any cracking like i was used to with remo

« The » sorry ! 🧐
Bad habits or my wannabe British accent for a French guy like me 🥲
This is the whitest drum I have ever seen yes !
Thank you very much 😊
And yeah, with the level 360 Evans has developed, it is officially not needed to crackle the glue like other brands because they use a different glue.
But, in my experience as I have been using Evans for more than 10 years, I always feel that my drums needed less tuning if I crackle them. Like they stay in tune much longer before having to tune them again !
I will have to do other tests !
Thank for watching 😊

[@soerenkepler]

Hi Thomas - good video - however for a drummer as specialized as you its quite basic. What id like to see is how your specialty translates to various tensions on 1) the mesh head and 2) the regular head, and describe the tensions with a specific note - or just loose/medium/tight.
That would produce alot of insight to the various techniques, how they work and just as important --> where they dont work (for whatever reason: muscles, balance, trigger issues, head tensions!!!! etc), even for a drummer as technically skilled as you.
Merci monsieur 🥁🎶

Hi there !
Thank you for watching first of all !
To be completely honest, I wanted to do a video that would be suited for beginners to learn how to tune a kick drum.
I do not tune my kicks / toms / snare to special note. I do not go further than a pitch I like. I do not use a tune watch neither 😕
When I use mesh heads is to have the greatest amount of rebound with no kick bleed when recording, so double strokes are faster with greater rebound !
When I use regular heads is to record a deep and fat kick sound, so generally my batter head is really loose.
As for the insights on the various techniques, and use with triggers, it is a really really good point !
DO you have specific questions about all of this ?
I would be happy to answer to these ! 😊
Cheers from France !

[@soerenkepler]

@ thx Thomas - sure - my question is , if you´d consider showing how your doublestroke works (or doesnt work) with various heads and tensions? Clean triggering is obviously easier on a head with high tension, but as you are using foot-triggers thats not a concern for you. Which leads me to a 2nd question about footblasters:
How do you ensure 100% sync between the foot-trigger signal and a mic signal mounted inside the bassdrum? I understand that you wouldnt mic a bassdrum with a mesh head, since why? It doesnt produce a great acoustic sound.
Merci

@@soerenkepler for my double strokes technique I did a video on the technique itself, if you didn't have the chance to watch it, here is the link :
ua-cam.com/video/HuWI3aJzqAU/v-deo.htmlsi=n-_BW3me5Pt38Hi7
For the pedal settings, it has more to do with the playability of the technique than the head tension.
I used Axis A Longboard for 7 years, with maxed out tension.
At first my kick drum heads were standard ones, with loose tension and feel. I was able to play up to 250bpm with it.
But as soon as I wanted to reach higher tempos, I had to work on my technique and muscles capabilities, and something helping me to play clearer and more precisely was the high tension on my kick drum heads.
Having that higher tension on the kicks made my kicks sound pretty awful to be honest so I started to put a lot of pillows / carpets inside, and later I had my first experience with mesh heads and man, another world !
Like, during recording, I stopped hearing the kick bleed, and moreover, it has a greatest rebound. So for my playing going up to 300bpm now, I was surprised to feel that extended rebound.
Then for the FootBlasters :
I do not blend acoustic microphones with triggers. But if you do it, it will be possible because of the fact the triggers are triggering the sample as soon as the beater hits the kick drum, which is the same exact time when the kick drum creates its sound.
Then the microphones sends its signal through the cable, when the trigger and the drum module send the signal through the cables.
The latency won't be long enough for us to hear.
I do not mic a mesh head because yes, it doesn't produce any real sound useful for bass drums 😊
You'll here something in some upcoming videos…
Cheers from France !

[@arisingchapter8149]

Do you play live also with mesh heads and only use the trigger sound?

Totally !
I always play with my mesh heads or my Roland KD-120 Pad live ! 😊