Maybe, but a bigger help is the Pearl air suspension tips or whatever they call them. For about $11 you can buy a pack of 3, swap them on your floor tom legs and voila..Clapping Happy2

http://www.explorersdrums.com/shop/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=165451&ps_session=bb245af76eb6b07adc49473fadb68ab9

You can accomplish the same thing as those with four pieces of foam rubber set under the leg tips.....or...don't ask me why they work different than any other brand......you can get a set of Ludwig floor tom legs. I have a generic set that appear to be bent almost exactly the same as Ludwig's but they aren't exactly the same. Those sound dead when I use them. Swap the set of Ludwigs on and voila! Resonance! It must be that the angles are more pronounced on the Ludwig's than the generics. If DW's legs were smaller diameter, they'd work too....but they won't fit the Gretsch mounts, too large a diameter. Those are even more sharply bent and they claim they did that to promote resonance without having to go to a RIMS mount system on their floor toms. Its all about the angle....and I know that factory Gretsch from the RB and SSB eras are almost straight.

I have seen a generic version of the DW's in 3/8" size, but I don't remember where..

dude!

that was right on the money.

it does not look so vintage but it made the drum sing!

thanks.

i also tried styrfoam balls which worked too, but the legs ate through it in no time.

Glad to hear they work, now I may get some for my floors...... Laughing H

I just picked up a set of Gibraltar floating tips for my RB floor tom... there's a guy selling them on eBay for about $6.50. I'll try 'em out this weekend and report back.

oh, cool.

please let me know, they look way more inobstrusive than the pearl ones.