Well you can t just put a bass drum head on it so here was m.
Tuning floor tom into bass drum.
The higher toms and bass drum i take the reso s up a notch but with the floor tom i prefer same tension.
Replace two of the three floor tom legs click to enlarge.
Bass drum tuning a lot of factors go into tuning your bass drum such as the type of heads use of cut outs or kick ports in the resonant head and the type of damping eg a pillow in the drum etc.
I was wondering if it would be possible to add floor toms legs to a bass drum so that it could be played like a tom.
A lot of factors go into tuning a bass drum including the type of heads the use of cutouts in the resonant head and the type and amount of damping.
I recently converted a 16 floor tom into a bass drum.
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Now fit the bass drum bracket from the jungle kit into the optimount.
If you were meaning an attacky punchy bass drum get a blanket and stuff it in there just touching the head.
For my floor tom i prefer to tune batter and resonant head the same.
I don t know if it would require extra drilling or not but i have some tom legs already.
But it still sounded like a floor tom.
With mine i have it touching both heads as well as having a falam slam patch on the.
I took all the hardware off my old kit and stripped the wrap and then refinished it to match my current kit and i want to add the bass drum as sort of a gong drum with legs.
A good starting point is to tune the lug frequency of the resonant head a perfect fifth 1 5 times higher in frequency than the batter head.
This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty.