This is not about how to tune. this thread is mainly for those who have a standard kit. My question is does anyone but me have problems making there 13 inch tomtom in tune with their 12 and 16. I wish i had a 14 but I don't and i'm never satified with my 13. What do yall do?vDo you boot it or try your best to tune it with the other toms. Peace.

Try your best to tune it. Get a drum dial to make sure you have equal pressure. You don't have to follow the chart but you can find a nice sound and remember the pressure.

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I have 13"'s in both of my kits. I tune each drum to where they're most resonant. After that, I fine tune each drum, if necessary, in relation to my other drums. Not really much of a problem for me.

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This is not about how to tune. this thread is mainly for those who have a standard kit. My question is does anyone but me have problems making there 13 inch tomtom in tune with their 12 and 16. I wish i had a 14 but I don't and i'm never satified with my 13. What do yall do?vDo you boot it or try your best to tune it with the other toms. Peace.

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I dumped the 12 and bought a 14 floor, which is close sounding to the 13. If that makes sense. The 16 growls awesomely though. So in other words:

12=gone
13=tuned a little high, great
14 floor=wish it resonated a little more, but good.
16 floor=perfect sounding floor.

As far as tuning them to sound well with each other, that's up to experimenting. a buddy of mine doesn't do anything technical. He tunes the 12 as high as he think it should be. the floor tom as low as possible, and his 13" tom somewhere in between. Then he does a few rolls through the toms and adjusts accordingly. It looks like a gutteral process but it works for him, and if I took a drumdial to it, all the lugs are within one pressure point of each other.

a drumdial is an awesome investment if you haven't been blessed with the ability to tune drums by ear. J0ker is right, you don't have to follow the chart, but it helps you determine whether or not you're equally tuning each lug and also to remember awesome tuning settings you may have come up with. I keep an index card with my drumdial with all the settings I like for every head that i've used. It comes in handy and It only takes me a minute to tune a drum after replacing a head. That and if the drum shop doesn't have my specific snare head, I can get another one I've used in the past and refer to my card to find the best tuning for my set.

i have a smilar problem with the 12 in my 10 12 14. tune the 13 first, and then tune the others around it
you should find though that they can reach their natural tone if you tune it from lowest to highest and find your favourite tone and resonance as it goes through the different stages. easier sed than done tho!