Hi folks. Wondering if anybody who builds/repairs snare drums can help me on this. I have a no-name snare that I'm having an issue with. It seems that no matter how I tune the heads or what tension the snares are, the snares vibrate (like crazy) when hitting the mounted tom directly above/in front of it. The heads are new, the snares were swapped out for a set of Puresound Blasters so all should be good there.
I know I could re-tune the tom, but I suspect that it won't matter much as I've tried the snare with 3 different toms/sets and it reacts the same way with all of them (the toms are all tuned differently).
I've examined the bearing edges of the drum and they appear fine, but I suspect that the snare beds are too deep or too wide (possibly both). I've compared it to some other snares I have.
Would this cause the behavior I'm seeing, or am I barking up the wrong tree here? The drum has little value to me so I'm okay with experimenting on it. I restored a Kent snare which had no bearing edges and no snare beds to speak of, and the sound of the drum now is very nice. I'm thinking about recutting the bottom bearing edge and beds.
Thanks.