Floor Tom Setup for Drum Set

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The next step is going to be to start putting the toms in. Because I have a lot of my toms mounted on the same stands as cymbals, if I have to get the toms in first, since they're lower. And then above them I can get the cymbals in. So I have a hanging floor tom, this is a fourteen inch tom. A lot of times people will have a floor tom that won't be on a stand, the tom will just be here and have it's own legs, sixteen inch or eighteen inch. I have a fourteen inch. So I'm using these types of mounts here that really, the idea of them is to enable as much resonance as possible. As you can see we have a ball in here, and the ball spins and the idea of this is to not take away resonance so that we're going to have the best acoustically mounted drum set. So I'm just going to go ahead and loosen the floor tom and slide it on. I have memory bolts on there as well so I know exactly where it goes. And then I'm going to tighten it up. Where you have this floor tom really depends on how you like to play. I really like to have it at about the same height as my snare, and I don't want to have too much room in between. As you can see my foot is fine in here, I'm not going to have any issue with one hitting the other, the snare or the floor tom. But I really want to have great access to this. And I want it as close as possible. Now, right now we're going to have some rattle in here because this is just kind of loose, the cymbal's going to go on there. We'll go through and make sure everything is tight and that there's no rattles afterwards. The main thing here is, as you can see, nothing is touching here. This, nothing is going to reduce the sound or the acoustic resonance, everything is mounted properly. Nothing is rubbing and that's really what we want. We don't want the floor tom touching the bass drum or anything else I've got.

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