On drums...

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

Hey Greg. Nice to see you. Hope you enjoy. Kind of quiet here but it's a nice kind of quiet.

I got into more than one argument on the old Museum board about using a Drum Dial. I've been using one for quite a while and have found it invaluable.

Good to see you here, Greg!

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Mike

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Nice to see you as well Mike.

I love my Drum Dial. I always avoided the DD threads because the Tuning Afficianados always missed the point that we don't use them because we can't toon; we use them because we can tune. We just don't want to waste valuable drumming time doing it!
Brian

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Drums and No Money will get Me through Hard Times better than Money and No Drums!
-A Recovering Drum Addict

Amen!!!

I still haven't managed to get one - but I'm SURE I will...
The Drumdial is a great invention - and it does what it needs to: saves You time and brings You close to that perfect result You've been after...

I talked to several drummers back here about using one. And they all think it's a stupid gadget... But, these guys are the same ones who use heads for several years (some of them have the same heads from the mid 80s)...


No one wants to embrace the future I guess...

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

Freakin' Drumdials Rah Rah Rah.. Waste of time Rah Rah Rah..Can't Tune your drums RahRahRah

Cliff , can you please re-post your PSI readings, my friend just got back from the USA, today. With MY new DrumDial

Cheers

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Jeff
Gots ta luv da Beech
Australia

I think you'll find them at the top of this thread.

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Gregory

Do you use the same settings, Gregory?
What about for 2 Toms, say, 12+16?

Cheers

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Jeff
Gots ta luv da Beech
Australia

Sorry to be so delayed responding, Jeff. Looked at this, thought about it, decided to give it more time later, and then...

Those are the settings I been using in a four-tom setup of the same sizes that Cliff has. The tuning range is circumscribed by the useful range of the 12 and the lowest possible range of the 16 where it still projects.

For two-tom setups I'd use the 12 setting, and then tune the floor to whatever I felt like, so long as it harmonized. A third, fourth, fifth, sixth or octave all would be fine, depending on the drum size and the music. When there are only two toms, there are fewer possibilities of conflict, hence greater freedom of tuning.

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Gregory