Turn your bass drum over into the playing position, engage spurs and attach your favourite bass drum pedal. Now, this is where it gets really interesting - the resonant head on a bass drum is the key head when it comes to a great bass drum sound. Press in the centre, as before, and remove the wrinkles. If possible, repeat the seating procedure used on the batter head and return to finger tight.
Attach the towel to the inside of the drum (not the head itself) so that the towel will rest against the front head once you've put it on, and then put on the front head. It can sometimes be useful to dampen both heads, particularly for close mic'ing, so (depending on the heads you've chosen) it may be helpful to add a similar sized towel to the batter head.
A small rolled-up towel placed toward the front (resonant head), will generally suffice. If you do insist on dampening the bass drum, this is the time to do it. Don't get overcritical with this, just make sure there aren't any obvious differences and adjust where necessary. Now tap gently around the head (about 2"-3" in from the edge) and check that the pitch is even all the way round. Tension progressively (ie a little at a time on each trip around the drum - half-turns with the key at a time should do it), and don't try to crank each rod.Īt this point, this level of tension for a batter head can prove to be enough for many players, but if you want a more bouncy feel, take the head up half a turn up on each rod. Again, start finger tight and turn all the rods in turn (you'll need to press the centre with the palm of the hand on drums this large), until you've removed all the wrinkles. Ideally you should tune the batter head first, with the resonant head off the drum (unless tuning mid-gig, of course).
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