[dNWaKE]

Hey guys, whenever I play on my high tom, it always causes my snare on the snaredrum to rattle a lot. How can I stop it from doing that?

[Diamondblade2008]

 dNWaKE, on Aug 29 2008, 08:52 PM, said:

Hey guys, whenever I play on my high tom, it always causes my snare on the snaredrum to rattle a lot. How can I stop it from doing that?

Although I don't have an accoustic kit, Im guessing there is something transmitting the vibrations from the hi-tom to the snare. Could try making sure everything is tightened on your kit, moving the snare stand slightly further away from the toms. Or it could even be the floor transmitting the vibrations.

[DrummerChef]

This question has been asked on many occasions in various threads here. Long story short, tuning.

[JiffishHank]

Well one thing is for sure; it is definitely the pitch of the tom that is causing it. You can try to tigthen your snare wires, or you could tune your tom higher/lower to get rid of that pitch. I have the same problem. My high tom makes a slight buzz, when the others hardly do a thing to the snare.

[Poco Askew]

Tuning the snare, especially the reso side, And you can tighten your wires.

[deathdrummer420]

 Poco Askew, on Aug 29 2008, 01:14 PM, said:

Tuning the snare, especially the reso side, And you can tighten your wires.

or u can try moving ur snare a bit away form the tom

[DrumsForSale]

Everybody is correct. It's about tuning. Its not easy to remedy unless your Bob Gatzen. One gets their toms sounding nice and melodical, and the snare goes bzzzzz. So we give the snare a tweak, and now the other tom, or toms makes the snare go bzzzz.

I have the same issue at the moment with my toms. The 8" rattles the snare, at one particular snare tuning, or the 10", 12, or 13" tom rattle the snare at any other snare tuning. What I'm thinking of doing is put the snare where I want it to be, and readjust each tom until the snare is quiet, or readjust suspect tom, while still being melodical to the other toms. (Make sure the snare wires are adjusted correctly before doing anything first). This is more work especially cause I like equal tunings in the tom heads, and to be as close to the natual resonance of the drums as possible. Sometimes having a little rattle in the snare work for certain drummers, but not me. I like absolutely no cross talk.

Just remember, if the snare head gets to loose, the snares will cancels out to soon. Also tighening up the snares to much can box out the drum making it sound very dry. For my particular problem, I can't find any tuning in the snare where the toms are not effecting it in some way, so I feel the toms are the problem regardless of how good they sound, and not the snare drum.

Its best to tune the drums to a specific pitch. This way, one knows exactly where each drum is at, but I have yet to learn how to use a tuner, and sing specific pitches, and adjust heads to those pitches. For example, if the bottom snare head is tuned to a particular pitch, if any tom sings /resembles that frequency, the snare will bzzz, but what the hell is a "J", A, C fifth etc... Also, if one has toms mounted in the bass drum cross talk can become an even bigger problem to solve.


My two cents.

[KSL]

Schroeder posted a vid a while back with one solution to this issue. Basically tightening the lugs a little more on each side of the snare wires to create a valley. Did a search to find but didn't. Its out there....