My Premier Drum sounds awesome due to the fact I bought a Brand new K-Falam for it and I kept the Kevlar® snare side, for the fact I didn't want to mess with the snares and all, anyway I have the bottom head cranked pretty high and then I had the top head cranked below that high pitched "gack" sound and I believe it helped have a good response on the snares but when I finished the crank job now it sounds heavenly to me. What was the sweetest sounding snare you played on? Also what Heads and how high was it tuned?

The sweetest sounding snare that I have played on was a Pearl drum with mylar on bottom, fairly tight, and boned out Falams K-series head on top. It sounded sweet, right up until it popped. Hey, it was my first time cranking out a head - guess I went a little too high <img src="/threads/images/graemlins/70410-whistling.gif" alt="" />

I have a 14" Yamaha MTS, Remo Falam II on top and a clear mylar head on the bottom. Sounds great indoors (solos), not so good with the projection outside, but it sounds good nonetheless. The top head is super-tight and the bottom is not quite as tight.

Thor, I personally can't believe you "popped" a Falams K-Series head! Unheardof!

You'd be surprised, TenorSweeps. In my marching days we would go through top heads (Remo Falams and Premier Tenduras) about every 5 days on average. When you're constantly playing and tuning them they can go fast.

does anyone just play single snare or do you all play double? I'm in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and we just got done with the tattoo but next year i want to put together a wicked drumline prob is i only got a premier with a single snare..... anyone tell me how to get rid of the gank sound after i hit the drum?

oh and its a premier drum:)

dazedandconfused, utilize the 'edit' button if u could. You have 30 mins after the time of posting to edit it if needed.

Thank You <img src="/threads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Most marching bands and drum corps in the States use single snares. Some corps have just recently starting using them here and there, but as far as high school and college drumlines go, you'd be hard pressed to find one that uses double-snare.

And what do you mean by gank sound after you hit it? Are talking about the hollow kind of mettalic sound? I own an HTS-784 and find that over-tightening the snares can cause this. Also, the tighter your heads the less ring you tend to have. But the main culprit is probably that you have the snares too tight. What I do is tighten them just enough so that they're touching the bottom head just about all the way across. This gets rid of the ring and creates a nice snare response.

Search the snare tuning forum for "ring" and I'm sure you'll come up with some more info..

Sweetest sounding snare i ever used was a Pearl Championship snare with an Ambassodor snare side and a White Max batter.