Don’t waste thousands of dollars buying a new drum kit when you can release the tone trapped inside your current drums. Even after tuning all the lugs to return the same note pitch with conventional drum tuners, they can still disagree at higher overtones and create a muddy dissonant sound texture as these slightly different higher overtones interfere with each other. Only RESOTUNE provides the additional step to measure “clear quality” so we can fine match the lugs to each other, after the lug pitch has already been set.
“I’ve been using the Resotune for a couple of years now. NOTHING ELSE works this well. For all those “use your ears” guys, sorry, this kicks your ass. No one’s ears are anywhere close to the precision you can get time after time”. (actual RESOTUNE user endorsement click to read more)
The samples provided below reveal before and after “clearing” with RESOTUNE. These sound samples were provided by a RESOTUNE customer of a drum he used in a recording session.
The sound sample alternate between c = hit dead centre (which excites lowest fundamental note), and r= hit around the rim edge (which excites higher overtone notes).
Only RESOTUNE provides this crucial final step to “clear” lugs to each other precisely for optimal drum tone. This unique “clear quality” measurement is not a pitch measurement like used by other tuners but reveals how closely lugs are matched to each other by measuring their interaction with each other in real time. Adjust all lugs to agree with each other using this additional parameter “after” the heads have been voiced for specific notes (when typical drum tuners are already finished). This extra step delivers unparalleled “clear” tone.
Clearing is important because even a perfectly voiced drum makes multiple notes at the same time when struck. The lowest fundamental (thud sound), next higher lug note, and sundry even higher overtones occur at non-musical intervals above the fundamental (not simple whole multiple harmonics like conventional musical instruments). This is completely normal for drums and what creates the characteristic drum sound we all love. In an ideal world these higher overtones are all in perfect agreement too, but life and drums are more complicated than that. Even if the fundamental pitch, and lug note pitches register agreement for pitch, the higher overtones can still differ enough to degrade tone.
When these higher overtones are even slightly different, they create beat notes against each other and generate a cluttered dissonant sound. When the lugs are in perfect agreement at all the upper overtones, we hear a pure, “clear” drum tone. The non-musical overtone notes are still present but instead of numerous closely spaced overtones interfering with each other, we get just one series of pure overtone pitches. This open “clear” sound quality is hard to describe but easy to recognize when you hear it.
(see “About Drums” for technical discussion about overtones) .
In addition to this unique clear function, RESOTUNE also reads and displays the fundamental note and the lug resonance notes (like basic tuners do) to facilitate precision, repeatable drum kit voicing. After you voice your drum kit, then “clear” it for the best possible sound quality.