How to Make Your Drums Sound Great: Turbocharged Toms
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2023
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If anyone knows a thing or two about getting the best sound out of their drums, it’s Nick D’Virgilio. In this miniseries, Nick shows you how to take your drums from good to great with dedicated videos for snares, cymbals, toms, and kick drums. Want to learn more? Check it out!
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Can you please tell me how you tune drums for country music
Hey guys what cymbals were used on this vid. Specially the ride. I'm looking for a new ride cymbal...
@@josegalindo1262 Hi Jose, I've used Zildjian's 21" A Sweet Ride for years. I've used it for rock cover bands I've been in and Contemporary Christian in a church. Controllable, clean, great sound especially with nylon tip sticks. Might be worth a listen. For whatever my opinion is worth. Good luck in your search!
@@josegalindo1262 It looks like a Sabian HHX Legacy ride
Nick's hair is entering Mike Mangini territory.
His playing & vocals & hair will rock on tour with Mr. Big 🤘🏻
im thinking dave lombardo from 30 years ago
It’s the Italian in him
Vinnie Colaiuta?
Dude I thought it was Mike there for a sec. Lol
As a beginner, you made it so much easier for me to tune my drums. I don't understand why others make it so hard in their videos. Thanks for making it simple.
I love Nick doesn’t get to into his head or all “sciency” about tuning.
Tried this on my floor Tom’s which I’ve always had trouble with.
Made life so much easier.
That’s Nick
Nick is the man. So simple. I've been obsessing for years over getting my drums just right. This is like a no brainier. Can't wait to give it a shot at my gig this weekend!
Nick you have been an educator for me many years. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you Nick for the tuning tip. I’m definitely going to try it out on my kit.
I’ve looked up several tom tuning videos and it all didn’t make much sense, this was so much better what a great explanation thank you!
Thank you Nick and Sweetwater. Continued success and Happy Drumming!
Thats the best sounding set Nick has played so far.
Nick I’m so very thankful for great people and musicians like you. Thanks so much for your knowledge in drums and caring for all of us. We need more people like you in this world. Forever grateful 🎶
My buddy bought this kit. It was tons of fun to setup. Great kit
Nick is just TOO cool....LOVE Sweetwater.....rock on...
Nick always keeping up with his chops groove and talent!
I have been using this method for years and it's just simply the best and easiest ways to tune your cans
already love this, please make one for the snare too, with medium and high tuning
Very, very good method! It works and it's, at least to me, the most honest suggestion about tuning I've ever seen. 👏👏👏👏👏
Nick is such a great drummer... I want some of his music in my mp3 player.. like yesterday :D
Great Hands Nick!!! Thanks and Blessings!
I have to say, I've heard some of the great drummers by people standards. But Nick D. Has one of the best chop combos I've ever CONSISTENTLY HEARD. He always plays stuff that makes me go- what we that he just did. So many of the greats out there, play the same stuff over and over. But Mr. D. Sounds great every darn time! Heck, it was nicks drum demos on Sweetwater that dazzled me into buying my first set. GREAT JOB, SIR.
Spocks Beard! He is a really good singer as well.
Love this Tutorial very well Delivered 🥁🔥🥁
Nice note balance in the set. Right on man, nice jam
Dream kit is a tie between a Gretsch renown and a Tama star classic birch!
Wow!
Nice tuning tips
Thanks
Great demo!
Always great to heard your videos Nick !!
Incredible sound tons this situation!! Congrats 🎉🍾🥁 🔔
What about seating the heads?
Not necessary?
I love that detuned sound! ❤️🔥😃 it's just fun, everytime u strike it it make me smile 😃
The drums sound great for rock. Good job tuning, good explanations! I tune a bit differently, as I have a Yamaha Stage Custom set that’s designed for rock but I’m playing jazz. I take all heads off entirely at first. I then put the Diplomat resonant (bottom) head on, using your general process… then I tune it such that the head resonance is in concert with the shell resonance. No odd pitches or harmonics, just a single clear sound. From there I install the top head. (Using coated Ambassadors now, will be switching to Fiberskyn Diplomats in the near future.) That top head again gets the basic treatment…. then gets tuned and tweaked so that again we have a drum in concert with itself. The batter heads end up higher in pitch than the resonant heads. I just did my set this afternoon. They sound open and clear and musical. So much so that they register clean notes on a guitar tuner.
I don’t use dampening or muffling. No need when they sound this good.
Thanks for making this so easy
I love this presentation
I would add visually checking the rim height against the corresponding head surface at each tension rod after you remove all the wrinkles. This verifies that the tension is relatively uniform around the entire head before the final adjustment of the tom.
Those are nice sounding drums! Also it’s nice to hear from you how you tune!
Nick does a great job demoing this fantastic drum kit. I love the finish...the drum sizes are perfect and the sweet K Zildjian set is fabulous. All topped off with sturdy and stylistic Gibralter hardware. I want this kit!
i had a ludwig element in 2008 or 2009. value/money it blew my mind
OK, it's yours! lol
I have my dream kit
Pearl masters birch ...10.12.16
14 with 22x18 kick in emerald green to black fade ...the colour is the nicest ive ever seeen and everyone always compliments it and trys to buy it from me :)
Talks the Talk like a legend....and plays like one too. Ambassador of drums.
Love the way you explain things Nick, cheers!
Thank you great explanation
GREAT ON NICK
Nick, Do you tune the drums to sprecific musical notes? or is it totally by ear?
Amazing drummer and teacher😅😅😅
What a great video!!!
Thanks! Would have been cool to hear the cotton ball method as a comparison. Curious what that’s like.
Boys a beast!
I love your videos . Your an excellent drummer. Liked and subscribed
😎👊
Nick, THX for the video. One contention I have is the Overtone ringing is minimal when the drums are Miked... Different story when you played the Tomaway from being Miked. I use Evans E-Rings on all by Toms except the 8" rack tom. I personally like the Doooo, Dooooo sound that Jared describes on a Drumeo video. The E-Rings get me there without Miking. Using different size and wood type sticks (oak vs. maple) influence the sound as well.
I liked the tuning high on the Tom to my ear!!
This is a great beginner video.
I love Nick. He's a great communicator and drummer as well. Goals.
I do believe however that when it comes to tuning, people normally don't get too much into getting actual notes out from the drum.
They talk about what sounds right and that of course comes with a lot of experience. But in my mind I see the drums as a conjecture of instruments that have pitches and you can manipulate that pitch. If you are getting an A out of a 12 inch Tom what tuning is right for the reso side? A perfect fifth? How do you get that perfect reso going?
Thanks Nick! I'm glad you mentioned Aquarian heads-they are my favorite🤘
It seems like they have best quality control, are most consistent. Easiest to get every lug in tune and most of their models have an inherent warmth to their sound.
I have a Ludwig Element kit. My shells are poplar, is this kit poplar or the maple version?
I definitely prefer the two drum key method in tuning the drums. Also, I've been using RIMS style mounts for roughly 20 years, but I've gotten to the point that I don't like them. It's not that they don't work, but they're bulky, and they're not pleasing to look at on rack toms plus they do get in the way of tuning, especially when you're changing heads. Being that you're using the Ludwig, I'd replace the vibrabrands with Ludwig Atlas mounts or the INDē BR3 tom brackets.
As for a dream kit, if money is no object, maybe an A&F copper kit.
Gretsch renown maple all the way, slim line isolation mounts look great and don't get in the way at all!
I like INDE mounts, when I think about resonance it doesn’t make sense to eat up all the vibrations in grommets and loose mounts. It honestly makes more sense to have them mounted rigid or semi-rigid to a solid piece of hardware. You want vibration between the heads, not of the whole drum itself.
I recieved this kit for Christmas and bot Tom’s we’re out of level I had to sand them down using a piece of granite with sandpaper taped down to the granite and patiently spun them till they were flat on both sides
What's in the dream kit? I would love to buy some blank cherry shells from Nordic Shells, stained with a groovy color, lacquered for a good shine, and throw on an eclectic array of Byzance cymbals. Give it a little latin flair with Meinl bongos and Meinl Marathon Timbales...
I always start with the lowest drum first (floors) and work your way up. Nothing worse than starting too low on the first high tom and then when you get to the floor you can't get it low enough and have to start over.
never thought of that - thanks. agree, and makes sense
Id like to know what kind of sticks is Nick using ..nice sounding kit by the way
Thanks Nick; great video per usual :). I've learned alot from you over the last few years. But - if I may submit .... the un-mic'd drum at 4:58 and the mic'd drum at 5:38 sound markedly different to me. For an apples to apples comparison, I would have used room mics for both (instead of the closed-in mic on the kit?). The engineered sound at 5:38 sounds light years better. Just a thought.
I was going to remark the same thing. The overtones just vanished. Which is what I’m needing mine to do.
Great video. Us old geezers with hearing damage have a hard time tuning.
My dream kit would be a set up just like Danny Carey has with Tool
Minus the weird symbols on his heads. Lol
Hi how is the Sundance kid? Cool name too.
Is it important to have a resonating head on the toms ?? When I bought mine, used, there was none. I can never get the toms sounding like I want, so am wondering if I really need those heads.
Dream drum kit, hmmm I’d say a Sonor SQ2 10 & 13 medium birch racks, 16 and 18 thin maple floors, 24-16 medium maple kick all in fiery red gloss and gold hardware, Gretsch 6.5x14 bell brass snare. A man can dream can’t he??
Hey Nick. See at The Cutting Edge Conference this year?
Nick's drumming is tighter than ever. Does he practice more?
What ride cymbal are you using? It's the best sounding one I have heard.
Hey, James. Thanks so much for your interest. Nick is currently on tour with Mr. Big or I would ask him directly. But I am 95% sure it’s a 22” Sabian HHX Anthology High Bell Cymbal:
www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/122XAHN--sabian-hhx-anthology-crash-ride-cymbal-22-inch-high-bell
I hope this helps.
Jason Thiele, Senior Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1391, jason_thiele@sweetwater.com
What's up Bill
Which ride is he using? It sounds fantastic.
I was asking myself the same thing. That ride Sounds incredible...
Looks to be a set of HHX Anthology cymbals. Sounds so good.
@@chrismackeysays Thanks!
The trick that I can’t find is to get that mic’d up sound without the mics. I’m a hobby drummer and don’t have all the mics and it is hard to get rid of all those overtones without destroying the sound.
That ride sounded nice,,what was that ?? 🤔
Hi, I’m new to drumming, but on the first drum while he was tuning it it has almost a resonance, but when played in the kit it was a nice “thud” sound - what happened to make that happen?
Mic'ing and EQ'ing
Yep many new drummers fall into thinking their drums should sound like recorded drums or drums on UA-cam. Tip, to your ear they NEVER WILL. My advice.... first get good drum heads next buy a tunebot and learn how to use it properly! In conjunction with the calculator app. Your drums will sound great guaranteed and it's a shortcut to teaching your ears how good live drums SHOULD SOUND. Next and MOST IMPORTANTLY GET EAR PROTECTION THE BEST YOU CAN AFFORD. Not only will you save your ears it gives a naturally EQ, UED sound which takes away all harsh overtones. Drumming for ten years as a hobby has taught me all this. Thats it take it or leave it.
Fully agree with the above. I love to play my mic’d drums (overheads only already give 90% of the result) with in-ear monitors (eg Shure 215s). Wonderful sound experience and ear protection at the same time. Plus: easy mixing with click or fav bands.
Jon Lovitz- I was playin’ the …. DRUMS… yeah that’s the ticket. 😂
He can match it with any of today’s top drummers..
The mic processing is nice but changes everything. THAT'S what I need to understand better. The bench sound and the mic'd sound totally different before any dampening
Make the title “Get rid of wrinkles in minutes; nothing to purchase.” And you will have million hits in hours.
harder to do with coated. wrinkles aren't as visible
This dude is auditioning for a Rush thing.
CottenBalls Who Knew????!!!!!
Bro. You are using some sort of witchcraft here.
Thank you for tuning correctly and not perpetuating the myth of tuning drums to A, B, C# notes, which is a lie to sell tunebots.
"damping" :)
The 10" rack Tom's mic out of phase or input level is not equal w the rest of the Toms.
Everything sound great, but for that snare! Ugg.
This drums sounds good! But if you cut new edges, then will going to another level of instrument.
I think it’s Nick’s hair that’s the secret…
Ron Jeremy plays drums?
If only my wrinkles are that easy to get rid off.
And I do this, sounds great off the kit, put it back on kit, major snare buzz. Frustrating
The answer to that question is miking the drums stop making none pros think their kits will sound like this
Damping, isn't it? Dampening implies you're using a spray bottle to get the drums wet (which might create an interesting sound but I don't recommend it).
nope, the first definition of the word dampen (and dampening) is: to check or diminish the activity or vigor of : DEADEN
I like to spray my drums vigorously with water.
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