The Hidden Reason Why Your Rack Tom Won’t Resonate

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A while back I was tuning my rack tom, and I was trying to get more resonance and tone out of it. However, it continued to sound lifeless no matter how hard I tried to get both heads tuned just right. Sometimes a dead sound is cool, but you always want to have the option of a full, longer tone too. I really wasn’t getting the tom sound I desired, because this just wasn’t cutting it. Then I made an interesting discovery that changed everything.

I’ve always been a fan of setting my tom in a basket stand rather than mounting it off the kick or cymbal stand, because that allows me to more easily place it exactly where I want it. What I realized, though, was that my basket stand was essentially sucking the life out of the drum - not letting it resonate. Honestly, this was understandable since there’s so much contact that a basket stand makes with the drum. Of course it’s going to deaden it a little! But when I decided to switch out stands, things got interesting. Here’s what I learned:

Not all stands are created equal. Though all basket stands might work great for a snare, some work great and some work horribly for a rack tom.

I found that the stand I’d been using was indeed the horrible stand. I switched it out for another one I had lying around, and suddenly the drum sounded awesome. I’ll show you how I landed on the stand I’m using now, and you’ll see what the key component is that you want to look for in a tom-worthy basket stand.

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