My son got me a Tune Bot for Christmas this year, great gift!

Man, I am really diggin this thing! I checked my tuning before I used it and I was shocked on how close these old ears are. However, this device can speed the process up quite a bit when you get it figured out. A few things that I found very interesting was, that you can see what note your drums are tuned to. Another was, comparing the res side to the batter side. Now I can see and hear what goes on when you change one or the other. Before I had this tool, it just took hours of trial an error the do this. Now it is much faster and I can actually record the settings! This has just opened up a whole new approach for tuning my drums now.

Here are some numbers that I have came up with so far. The spread sound great to my ears.

1971 walnut thermogloss toms (3 ply);

10x14- tuned to a G# frequency=106

16x16- tuned to a F frequency= 87

16x18- tuned to a C# frequency= 67

14 coated Amb over clear Amb

16 coated Emp over clear Amb

18 coated Emp over clear Amb