How to Get a PHAT Snare Drum Sound with Only Your Tuning Key

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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  • @sweetwater
    @sweetwater  2 роки тому +17

    Just a little detuning and you've got some BIG snare sounds!

    • @CornerStoreDrums
      @CornerStoreDrums 2 роки тому

      Amazing customer service always with Sweetwater 🥁

    • @L.Scott_Music
      @L.Scott_Music 2 роки тому

      Thank you. I requested in a previous video a hot-to one Carpenter's snare sound and this looks to be how it was done.

  • @alexalja
    @alexalja 2 роки тому +39

    A great trick never so well explained.
    A company that deals with music, which despite having an interest in selling, puts up a video teaching how to improve the sound of what you already have, show why it has so much success and growth. The focus is the sound.
    Congratulations Nick!

  • @JeffoftheShout
    @JeffoftheShout 2 роки тому +29

    Your last comment is very important. I was doing a similar tuning technique to my snares years ago that I learned on UA-cam as “ The best snare tuning trick ever”. Unlike your advice, I left it tuned like this and I’ve bent the rim of every snare I own. I think I’ve even caused my main snare to be out of round. Therefore people, definitely do as he says, and tune it back to kind of normal before you put it back in the case.

    • @benjamingaray5660
      @benjamingaray5660 2 роки тому +2

      That’s a good anecdote. Never even thought about that happening before but I’m going to keep that in mind.

  • @kreatos10
    @kreatos10 2 роки тому +2

    I gotta put this here : So every time i see this guy on video, I cant help but remember that he is 100% responsible for me loosing one of the greatest drum teacher i have ever met! That being said, It was for good reasons. He helped my former teacher get a job in asia xD. Nick is a very nice guy!

  • @DojoOfCool
    @DojoOfCool 2 роки тому +3

    Bad in my day recording with tape and dinosaurs roaming outside the studio there was a tuning that only a few seem to know the secret to, but when you heard it, it was like the snare was super thick and you could almost hear the sound move from the top head and creep down to the snares. In general they would take and tune the bottom snare head as tight as possible on the brink of ripping a hole. It was so tight it responded to just about any vibrations. Then the entire top head was completely loosened to where the head was getting wrinkled. Then they would tune the top head just tight enough to remove all the wrinkles. Now was the time to tune just tight enough to get some bounce, but had that low thump. There was a sweet spot that got the top and bottom heads to really respond to each other. Record that and the sound was BIG and your backbeats really drive the groove.

  • @shyank_life8744
    @shyank_life8744 2 роки тому +1

    Now we need Nick to show us how to get that loud crack sound out of the snare, without compromising tone or volume. A more metal sound. Granted that aluminum shells help alot with that too. Would love to hear your input on this side of it. Always learning something new Nick. KILLER!🤘

  • @benjamingaray5660
    @benjamingaray5660 2 роки тому +2

    Awesome video. I really like Nick. Sweetwater made a good choice having this dude do these videos. Great player and great presenter. Bet he’s great to work with in the studio. Seems like he’s no nonsense but still got a great attitude.

  • @ShakingTwoTrees2012
    @ShakingTwoTrees2012 2 роки тому +4

    I've never understood the benefit behind this tuning concept. In the same amount of time, you can detune all of the lugs equally thus maintaining even pressure on the bearing edge and hoop all the way around and achieve a superior deep snare sound. Am I missing something?

    • @jscottfischer
      @jscottfischer 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah I was thinking the whole time that's what I would do. I never understood trying to take one or two lugs down. I suppose that if you were in a studio situation in which you needed to do it real quick but wouldn't that affect the tone and the accuracy of the tuning? I think it would be much more effective to actually spend the time to tune the snare drum lower which will yield the same result in a better more clear concise manner

  • @neilschlemeel5751
    @neilschlemeel5751 2 роки тому +1

    the problem with doing that on a regular basis is warping the hoop - I get a BIG fat sound using a TAMA 8x14 Walnut/Birch snare with an Evans EC Reverse Dot head...whether tuned high or low its absolutely phenomenal - BTW, that head was also on a Pearl Export EX 5x14 snare that sounded almost as fat & sassy

  • @Romans219
    @Romans219 2 роки тому

    Thank you for your techniques and passion Nick. You are always appreciated.

  • @paulgardner2417
    @paulgardner2417 2 роки тому +2

    Will this not give you a warped rim?

  • @CornerStoreDrums
    @CornerStoreDrums 2 роки тому

    Sweetwater is always top notch!
    -Indiana Love 🥁

  • @arkoganguly9255
    @arkoganguly9255 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for this!❤️❤️❤️

  • @VON_RHEDBEARD
    @VON_RHEDBEARD 2 роки тому +1

    I prefer zero ring or old drumhead. I’ve done this before but doesn’t quite get the sound even muffling does

  • @joelx1234
    @joelx1234 6 місяців тому +1

    0:56 before
    3:01 after

  • @jdogdaddy
    @jdogdaddy Рік тому

    Cool trick - thank you for this!! Do you have any videos for tuning your toms to a particular key if its not identified on the inside of the shell like DW's?

  • @IamDaCody
    @IamDaCody Місяць тому

    Thanks 🙃😅💯

  • @JFKDrummer
    @JFKDrummer 2 роки тому

    Great info ! Thanks!

  • @VON_RHEDBEARD
    @VON_RHEDBEARD 2 роки тому

    Cool trick, I’ve used it, but prefer using an old drum head upside down. Whatever gets the job done though

  • @michaelaugust3626
    @michaelaugust3626 2 роки тому

    45th anniversary bass drum!!!!!!!

  • @richboshart1201
    @richboshart1201 2 роки тому

    I spend too much on my snares to risk pulling them out of round because of uneven tension on the shell.

  • @simonwilliams2109
    @simonwilliams2109 2 роки тому

    Cool Thanks!

  • @dadina_zote
    @dadina_zote 2 роки тому

    Plis make a video about the entry level drumkit 😅

  • @jerrymckenzie1858
    @jerrymckenzie1858 2 роки тому +1

    The Benny Greb trick is to take a spare snare drum head, flip it upside down and place it on top of your snare - instant 70's thuddy snare sound!

  • @jamesgraham3116
    @jamesgraham3116 2 роки тому

    Please tell me about the snare that Jabo uses on Same Beat. No one seems to know. Thank you.

  • @swervature
    @swervature 2 роки тому

    I can't help but feel bad for every new teacher you had growing up trying to pronounce that last name 😁

  • @Dolores5000
    @Dolores5000 2 роки тому

    Lovely

  • @terrybillington2482
    @terrybillington2482 7 місяців тому

    good post

  • @isMike999
    @isMike999 Рік тому

    well shit when I loosen my head starts to wrinkle and it sounds worse so I HAVE AN ISSUE with this technique.....

  • @RoeShamBoe
    @RoeShamBoe 2 роки тому +2

    can't wait for all the internet "geniuses" to comment how this will cause your snare to immediately explode into a million pieces

    • @daveyboy8907
      @daveyboy8907 2 роки тому

      Rim will bend over time if you leave it like this.

    • @butchcassidy3373
      @butchcassidy3373 2 роки тому

      Booomm. There it went. Lol

    • @daveyboy8907
      @daveyboy8907 2 роки тому

      @@butchcassidy3373 haha someone had to..lol

  • @dborn9675
    @dborn9675 Рік тому

    Where do you tune the reso head to when defining the batter head ?

    • @dborn9675
      @dborn9675 Рік тому +1

      Meant to say… detuning the reso head

    • @m22110
      @m22110 Рік тому

      @@dborn9675~400 Hz

  • @oscara.garcia5136
    @oscara.garcia5136 2 роки тому

    While I love This idea ... I personally would Prefer to have the Big fat snare donut ,I know me and I'll forget to re tune my snare before putting it away and messing it up ... but if I forget the dounut this right here does the trick

  • @AddiKolb
    @AddiKolb 2 роки тому

    Lol I’m the 1000th view😂

  • @spaceburger80
    @spaceburger80 2 роки тому

    “Phat” was retired before it came out of the womb.

  • @DDMcGrath
    @DDMcGrath 3 місяці тому

    "how to tune drums on snare" - El Travoso

  • @TheTubeDude
    @TheTubeDude 2 роки тому

    COme on man. Stop the lies! THe key to a fat snare is the candy from Sweetwater. Can't full me.