Tune Bot | No Nonsense Drum Tuning for Recording!

as musicians we always want our instruments to be in tune if you're a guitar player you probably have a tuner on your pedalboard you probably have a clip-on tuner that goes on the headstock of your guitar but if you're a drummer most of the time you're just being told well you need to learn how to tune by ear in today's video I want to show you this product that has saved me countless hours of nitpicking my drums in the studio this product is called the tune bot as I mentioned earlier if you're a guitar player you're used to seeing these clip-on tuners that go on your guitar well what if you had a tuner that Clips onto the rim of your drum whether that be a snare drum or Tom a kick drum this can clip onto the end and it can actually read out a note value for you so that you can measure all of your lugs together and make sure that your lugs are in tune now with tuning drums this is completely subjective and yes you need to be able to use your ears but if you're struggling right now and you just want to be able to get the drums sounding good in tune as best as possible I'm here just to explain to you kind of the mystery around the toon bot so make sure you keep watching to the end I'm going to show you how I tune this rack Tom I'm not sponsored by toombot whatsoever but if you look in the description I do have an Amazon link if you'd like to purchase this that would help me out there's gonna be a video coming out next week where I specifically tune my snare drum as for all my videos I'd really appreciate it if you would hit the Subscribe button the like button share this with your friends this is all about the toonbot let's get started foreign [Music] [Music] as it was there's a lot of ringing and the ringing is basically telling us that the drum is Out Of Tune what I do on my drum is actually right on them one through six one for each of the lugs and I want to make sure that I keep them in order pause the video if you need to but these are going to be the steps I take for the top and the bottom of whatever drum I'm trying to tune so I've just removed the head and now I'm using my hands to finger tighten them basically it's as tight as you can get them with your fingers I clip on the tune bot and I want to see am I getting any sort of pitch I'm going to go around and I'm going to finger tighten this I'll clamp on the tune bot even though I know there's not a pitch just yet so as you can hear the drum is just too Flappy right now so I'm going to take my drum tuner which is this and I'm going to go around and I'm going to turn it a half turn at each lug [Music] so the Drone was too high I'm going to use the toon bot Now by pressing this triangle button it gives me a locked in frequency of whatever node I need so then at each lug I'm given a difference of how much I'm off that frequency this will make sure that all the lugs are in tune with each other regardless of the note that I've chosen [Music] when you're tuning the drums it's never going to be exactly a letter note it could be but as soon as you hit the drum about five or six times it's going to slip out of tuning this is a pro Forum set it's not going to stay in tune constantly but that's why I have the toombot so again I'm repeating all my steps at the bottom of the drum head this time on the screen you're going to see what's known as a drum frequency chart or a note frequency chart it's basically giving you a number value for a letter value of a note so as you can see the note a on the second octave is 110. so I want my drum to have that frequency whenever I hit it I want it to be a 2 which is 110. to get a 110 the resonant side or the Bottom of My Drum needs to actually be 220 which is an octave above the a at 110. so since the bottom or the resonant side of the drum is 220 I need the batter side the side that you hit or the top of the drum needs to be a fifth below what the resonant side is which in this case is a d at 146. so the resonant side is 220 the batter side is 146 and then when I strike the drum I'll actually get 110. it's pretty crazy you can play around with this but mess around with these intervals of fourths and fifths just have fun with it but make sure you have one of these frequency charts or pull it up on your phone if you need it it'll make a whole lot more sense when using the toon bot now let's hear a before and after with tuning [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is that it is powered by two AAA batteries that can be removed from the back of the device if you're a drummer and you have a certain method for tuning the drums I'd be interested to know so please let me know in the comment section what method do you use maybe we can have a discussion there and as always check back in later for more videos and more shorts I'm Chris Green we'll see you next time

Channel: Chris Green

Views: 1,616

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Length: 6min 24sec (384 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 18 2022