Adjusting the Sound of a Drum

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Now we are going to start to discuss the overall sound of the drum, so we will give it a go here and see how it sounds. So in general, I would say the drum sounds a little wet and a little low. So first of all you can take the top head up a little bit but it also felt low. Before, we discussed the top head has the sound and also feel good. The bottom head seems to be at a reasonable pitch so I am not going to bring that up but so take care of that too much snare sound. There are a few things you can do. So this knob over here which will tighten or loosen the snare sound can really try to take all the tension off of that until you can't hear any snare sound at all. You can keep hitting the drum and bring it up slowly until you really get your desired amount of snare. That is a pretty crisp snare sound right there. If you feel like you still have too much snare sound like we discussed before, you can put some tape on the bottom of the drum. Also when you are working with one individual drum, if it sounds like it's got too much snare, you are really going to start to hear that when you've got more snare drums like in the drum line like 5 or 10 or however many you have. It is going to sound really snary the more drums. So 1 drum by itself is a little wet. You are really going to want to make it a drum sound individually dryer because as a line, they will sound more wet or snary.

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