bobgatzen (July 30, 2008 at 12:03 am)

It can go both ways but I've found best results with a flanged on the batter allowing more colorful overtones and die-cast on the snare side (more pitch). Just personal taste.

Danny19921125 (July 29, 2008 at 6:45 pm)

i saw drum have die-cast on top and flanged bottom. dose it change any sound?

bobgatzen (June 27, 2008 at 1:14 am)

I have one kit set-up on the floor (traditional set-up) and the other on a "DrumFrame" The DF is an ergonomic mounting system that aligns the drummer and drums at the same tilted angle. The bass drum is suspended and set at the same angle as the kit. You can check it out at the DrumFrame site.

rex6661 (June 26, 2008 at 5:24 pm)

i meant but not buys. hehehe

rex6661 (June 26, 2008 at 5:24 pm)

I have a question about the kick drum. In this vid you say that changing the angle of the bass drum changes the sound for the worse buys as you say that in the video you have your bass drum tilted back. I was just wondering; how you have it setup so that it doesn't affect the sound for the worse?

bobgatzen (June 12, 2008 at 12:55 am)

Always happy to help out

LukieWukie (June 11, 2008 at 11:07 pm)

Thank you so much for your videos,I never knew that there were so many little things you could do to improve the sound of a kit!

bobgatzen (June 8, 2008 at 6:20 pm)

Nature of the material. Zinc to steel is like Lead to steel. Zinc is much softer which is why it is easy to die-cast. Sure, the deader hoop will not encourage head vibration. I'll be using a DW maple drum with die-cast on the snare side and flanged on the batter. This changed my feeling from liking this drum to loving it now.

ignarukih (June 2, 2008 at 11:40 am)

Sounds great, and no doubt they will too! Sorry, I was asking if the two snare drums were DW bronze, rather than what the wires were. The difference between the hoops is interesting though - do you think it's the nature of zinc vs steel that stops the ring of diecast hoops, or the manufacture of the hoop which does that (the fact that it's cast)? I wonder if bronze or aluminium die-cast hoops would ring sympathetically like triple-flanged but with the focussed sound of flanged hoops..?

bobgatzen (June 2, 2008 at 8:20 am)

I believe I had "Puresounds" on this drum. However, I do use DW's on certain drums. Evans acquired Puresound recently so we will be developing new snare designs... looking forward to it!