Why is my Snare BUZZING?! (and how to fix it)

don't act like you didn't like my singing Tim let's troubleshoot something I get asked about all the time it's sympathetic buzz or sip and sympathetic vibration sympathetic resonance here's the problem you hit a Tom and your snare buzzes you hit your kick drum and your snare buzzes right that's called sympathetic we call it sympathetic buzz but it's not just in our instrument it's any stringed instrument they just call it vibration or resonance so what's the deal why is it happening that this happens whenever whenever the string so for this instance the snare wire is responding to an external vibration that is within the harmonic family or has a harmonic lightness to the tuning of that string okay and your string will be tuned very closely to what your snares tuned up and so what do we do how do we fix it well fixing it to me first of all this used to bug me into death because I didn't know I didn't understand just like why it happened and so let's let's figure out why it happens where it happens we know we know why it happens because it's responding external vibrations but are there certain tones are there certain notes that it will do it more on yes the most problem you're gonna have is with Unison's and octaves okay now I'm about to sing just a little bit I'm gonna do something called solfege anybody that's been the music school knows what that is so if this is our bass doe if that's our bass note that's what it's tuned to then an octave a unison would be doe but an octave would be doremi faso la T doe doe doe that's going to be the octave so it's gonna have the most effect if you're Tom or kick drum or whatever is tuned in a unison or an octave with that voice now there are other voices that have our troublesome v it would be the one that that would be next troublesome to me so if we're singing solfege again and we have doe doe ramie sol right so doe so that one's gonna cause it to vibrate as well if you're a fifth off of that and to a certain extent a major third doremi so Doh me so those that's gonna be in that range and then obviously the octave or the unison that's the why does it happen where does it have what tones trigger it what can we do about it right you're like okay I got it that happens but you can actually you can actually find the pitch of your drum and you can sing that pitch of the drum so like this drum here you can sing that pitch and find the octave from there the fifth from there and so you can kind of try to tune around that another way to do it if you're not very good at replicating tones whenever I first started playing I just wasn't good at replicating tones like you could hit something to be a big oh I think that you know that's like that's how good I was at it so I had to train my ear and so another way you can do it it's about to get a little bit weird but you can actually just lean over your drum and go so right around there so that that was a big one uh so I would know okay cool that's gonna be a tone that's gonna trigger that you don't have to do that in public if you don't want to um I always wanted to use solfege in a drum lesson and now I have and I've hummed awkwardly into my drum so where can we troubleshoot it the deal is going to be either your snare drum tuning your Tom tuning any of the time whatever's giving you the trouble or the snare wires and I can't tell you you need to do step one two three because it's different it depends on what you're tuned to it depends on what heads you're using what your bottom had tuned to but you need to begin troubleshooting it find specifically where the problem is so it's that time okay well let's start with that tom is couldn't that tom be tweaked just a little bit even a half a step will sometimes be enough to get it out of the vibratory range of those snares can we adjust the snares a little bit can we adjust the bottom head without affecting the tone too much what about the snare drum and so once we realize what we can do now part of the resonance part of it is like whenever you're hitting things it's gonna vibrate it just because it's percussive that's part of it but we're not the only ones that have to deal with this piano players guitar played any stringed instrument and there's actually been pieces written around this this idea of sympathetic resonance or vibration or as we call it buzz because it makes our snare buzz so that's gonna be it that's gonna be the notes of where it buzzes and then the troubleshoot it you wanna you want to deal with just the voice that is triggering it and deal with that voice and the snare in unison I would start with that voice and see if I can go a half a step up or a half step down and get it out of that range if you can't do with the top head try from the bottom head that's not gonna work try the tension of the snare see if you can adjust that just slightly and if that's not gonna work then you dig into your snare drum and then obviously you can muffling things but to me it's part of the instrument it's kind of part of the feel it's part of what the overheads catch I dig it whenever I hear it too much of it's a bad thing so that's what we're talking about here if you're tuned completely unison it's gonna just destroy the sound when you hit that high time or whatever so or sometimes you'll hit the snare drum or the kick drum and the Tom will well I used to add that problem with my top Tom I would hit my kick drum and my top Tom would resonate and so I had to figure out with my drumset how I could do that so it can happen on any of the voices but we just need to understand that's why that's how we troubleshoot it those are the tones that trigger it and that should help you troubleshoot the synthetic buzz or resonance if you got any questions put that down in the comment section maybe you found a way that you maybe you do have a three step method that I haven't found put that down on the comments put your but put your questions down there if you have any but whatever you do I'll see you here in the next video

Channel: Stephen Taylor

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Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 02 2017