I use a tama tension watch I would tune the top head to 80 inch pounds and the bottom to 76 inch pounds ,, using either ludwig medium or heavy white coated on top, and a clear thin on the bottom, or remo ambassador white coated on top and hazy on the bottom using either stock ludwig wires or puresound custom snare wires, without the tension watch if you know the song here comes the bride tune both top and bottom to comes, hope this helps.

I'm not familiar with the units on the Tension Watch, but I don't know if they're foot-pounds. The lug nuts on my car get torqued to 72 foot-pounds and it takes a slightly bigger tool than a drum key to apply that tension.

(And that "bigger tool" isn't me.) ;)

skydog, OMG!! yeah, that's were the brain thinks one thing but the hands type another??:confused: Thanks for catching it, Hey I corrected it, man foot pounds??:o