Does Your Snare Sound Bad? Try THIS!

Are you having problems with your snare drum sounding bad? If so, try this! In this video, I'll show you how to tune your snare drum using a tuning bot.

Tune your snare drum to sounding great in no time using this simple technique. This video is perfect for beginners who are having trouble tuning their snare drum correctly. With the help of the tuning bot, you'll be playing great drums in no time!

[neptuneskleinberg]

I use a 400 tune bot setting on my snare side and a 300 on my batter side. Produces around a G note. Sounds awesome on my 5x14 wood and 6.5x14 steel. Try it out tune botters

[emptysetowl]

I appreciate you don't have any cheap sound panels up in your room. I just got a tunebot to try out. This video is very helpful.

[chrisihrig]

Thanks Chris for a helpful lesson..just got the TUNE BOT and u really explained all this clearly to understand...

[drums]

H Chris, any chance you can share the link for the video you did for the drum chart for tuning drums? Or please share which chart you used in this video and where I can find it online. Thank you.

[hansvanhees]

Nice video Chris 👍 I am using Tunebot myself for some time now. Reso 380 and batter 280 is a great way to start with and after that some fine tuning and in most cases you get the perfect sound but that's my own experience. Get a fat snare 370 reso and batter 270 works great also that's with my 10 lugs snare. Eight lugs I have 385 reso and 273 batter. Greetings from Austria 🙂👍

[pour-g]

Bass drum felt beater will help you prevent denting the snare reso.. snare head being tighter makes you need to hit harder for the tunebot to react.. or you can place the tunebot close to where u hitting it

[kaybhee]

man knows notes, , , , good explanations, , , fund reso, , , , to top, ,, bottom notes... darn good

[rolandgriesmann]

GREAT Chris !!! Thank you very much ! Roland from Austria

[DennisMahieu]

Very nice video, just a sidenote, the lugs next to the snarebed are ok to be up to 10hz lower than the rest, this is because of the snare beds in the bearing edge. If its more than 10 hz difference you need to fix it but 5-10 hz should be considered a normal difference

[markolsen]

Your room is what we hear, bright and glassy, sounds good

[roberthagmaier]

The only thing is the snare beds always give goofy readings for me anyway so ai always end up having to do those by ear.

[lobbyrobby]

I'm a beginner drummer. I bought a Tama imperialstar kit and just changed out the factory heads with Remo emperor coated. I downloaded a tuning app and I'm happy with where I have the Toms. I have no idea what I'm doing I just went off settings I found online. I didn't change out the factory reso heads as this kit as it's brand new. I tuned the reso on the toms but left the snare at how it came from the factory.
The reso is at 480. That seems high doesn't it? I'll play around with different settings but (again) I have no idea what sounds good or bad. And then there's the snare wires. I don't know how tight or loose they should be.

[grumpy-gs]

so what frequency are the 2 lugs now with the moongel laying between them ?

[freebass]

Bro, tune your reso on the snare to about 400hz. Then tune the top to whatever note you like.

Your Snare is the only exception on the fifth/4th/equal rule. This will cause your snares to respond correctly, and keep your other drums from resonating your snare.

[KeithHomel]

I just tried the Tune Bot for the first time today. I noticed very different readings even at the same lug. Sometimes drastic differences. Same lug without changing anything would come up at 130 and then 400. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

[benking]

Just a tip I wouldn't use a stick to hit the reso. It's so thin your likely to dent it!

[UtwoBed]

Seems like you are not differentiating between the lug pitches and the overall drum pitch, they are going to be very different.

[SuperJimmy]

Where do I get the drum frequency chart?

[cobyutterback]

Yes, you need to change the bottom head. Every six months or so ;)