I have a 16 floor tom that i have permanently made into a bass drum also with a clear pinstripe for a batter and a coated ambassador for a reso.
Tuning floor tom into bass drum.
With mine i have it touching both heads as well as having a falam slam patch on the.
If you were meaning an attacky punchy bass drum get a blanket and stuff it in there just touching the head.
This takes out the ringing for me and it resonates plenty.
A good starting point is to tune the lug frequency of the resonant head a perfect fifth 1 5 times higher in frequency than the batter head.
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Fit the bass drum pedal mount click to enlarge once this is in position replace the floor tom legs with the bass drum legs and adjust the memory locks to suit the final position.
The higher toms and bass drum i take the reso s up a notch but with the floor tom i prefer same tension.
I was wondering if it would be possible to add floor toms legs to a bass drum so that it could be played like a tom.
But it still sounded like a floor tom.
For my floor tom i prefer to tune batter and resonant head the same.
Now fit the bass drum bracket from the jungle kit into the optimount.
I don t know if it would require extra drilling or not but i have some tom legs already.
Bass drum tuning a lot of factors go into tuning your bass drum such as the type of heads use of cut outs or kick ports in the resonant head and the type of damping eg a pillow in the drum etc.
I recently converted a 16 floor tom into a bass drum.
I took all the hardware off my old kit and stripped the wrap and then refinished it to match my current kit and i want to add the bass drum as sort of a gong drum with legs.
Replace two of the three floor tom legs click to enlarge.