DrumtuneTune your drums with your smartphone. Drumtune PRO makes drum tuning fast, fun & easy!Drumtune PRO is the most advance drum tuning tool on the market today! It’s the only drum tuner you’ll ever need.Enjoy accurate pitch analysis and precise tone calculation. Tune like a PRO!
Maximize your sound to sound like a PRO! Similar to a guitar tuner, Drumtune PRO will analyze the pitches of your drum and tell you which lug needs to be tuner higher or lower, and how much!EASY TO USETune by intuition.Say goodbye to the guesswork involved with analysing pitches by ear.Simply hit your drum in the center to see the fundamental tone displayed.Simply hit your drum near a lug to see the lug pitch displayed.DEAL WITH OVERTONES AND UNWANTED FREQUENCIESUse edge mode or lock target mode to let the app deal with unwanted overtones!SLEEK INTERFACEThe intuitive interface makes tuning your drums easy, fast and fun!
Experience a pixel perfect interface to tailor your drum sound! Usability in a sleek jacket.BASIC TUNERSelect which drum type you wish to tune. Drumtune PRO’s dedicated tuning presets ensure efficient and correct tone detection! Tune whenever.
Wherever.LUG TUNER MODEVisualize pitches around the drumhead! Fine tune your lugs in the correct order and pattern! Keep track of lug pitch differences.
Turn your phone into a fast DRUM TUNER! Get Drumtune PRO today, to get rid of guesswork when tuning drums, forever! The app analyzes your drum sound and shows the precise tone of your drum so that you can fine-tune it to perfection. With your phone in your pocket, you always have a drum tuner at hand to maximize your sound!
Check which bolts have to be tuned up or down. Match lug pitches to obtain even head tension. Clear your drum head on the fly. PRESET TUNERPRO sound became affordable just now!
Load tuning presets into the tuner, to achieve a consistent sound over time!TUNING PRESETDesign your signature drum sound. Define fundamental notes per drum. Experiment with sustain & head tensions.
Create your personal, customized tuning presets. Whatever style or kit you play: own your voice. Sound like a PRO!KITSGroup your tuning presets in kits.
Retrieve the right tuning for the right band or song!PITCH DIFFERENCE SCALECheck the difference between target pitch and detected pitch on an intuitive, clear scale. Clear your drum within minutes!NOTE or Hz TONE DISPLAYDrumtune PRO displays fundamental tone and batter/resonant head pitches in Note and Hz. Pitch differences are clearly shown to ease tuning to the key of the song you’re recording!EARPHONES MODE & TONE GENERATORWith earphones plugged in, Drumtune PRO outputs the target pitch directly to your ears as an audible tuning reference. Compare your drum’s pitch with the reference pitch you’re hearing.
AUTOMATIC TUNING INTERVALTune your drums to melodic notes for a balanced overall drum kitsound that is in harmony with the other instruments of your band.Drumtune PRO 2.0 automatically calculates the target fundamentaltones of your drum kit, following an interval of your choice.This new feature will save you a lot of time experimenting with different tunings to get a great overall drum kit sound! REFERENCE DRUMSelect any drum as reference drum for the interval and see real time effect. If it sounds complicated, just play with the app to getthe hang of it! It’s made easy, really. CUSTOMIZE INTERVALSEdit/modify any interval between any two individual drums of thesame drumkit to craft the sound you like! To achieve an optimalmelodic effect, tune all toms of your kit to the same tonal interval.Tune like a PRO. Sound like a PRO.
Wherever.Learn More button will take you to the single portfolio page and Link will take you the demo link of the portfolio. DOWNLOAD NOW! ORGANIZE YOUR TUNING PRESETSCreate as many custom drum tuning presets as you like, modifyor delete them and arrange their order. Store them as separatedrums in ‘MY DRUMS’ or group your drums into a drum kit andstore them in ‘MY KITS’.If you own more than one drum kit, or if you have different drumtuning settings regarding the style you play, just store separatetuning presets in the list.Organize your drums the way you like it best! This list is a great toolto store and access your arsenal of drum tuning presets.Recreate your signature drum sound with Drumtune PRO 2.0, consistently, time after time.
DOWNLOAD NOW! EASY TO USEThe intuitive drum tuner interface makes tuning your drums fastand fun! Pixel-perfect design and usability in a sleek jacket.Drumtune PRO is the only drum tuning app you’ll ever need!Set the switch to ‘CENTER’ to detect the fundamental tone of yourdrum. Set the switch to ‘EDGE’ to detect the lug pitch of your drum.Press ‘LOCK Lug Focus’ to eliminate interference of unwanted higher order overtones, while clearing your drumhead. A SOUND SOLUTION IN YOUR HANDSDrumtune PRO’s powerful drum tuner algorithms accurately analyze your drum head’s pitch.A clear needle-type display shows its exact tuning and tells youwhether to tune your tensioning bolt up or down.Lock ‘LUG FOCUS’ to tune all your tensioning rods the sametone in no time, time after time!
DOWNLOAD NOW! SCAN AMBIENT NOISE LEVELSAdjust your microphone’s sensitivity to the background noise present in your tuning environment.Drumtune PRO 2.0 will automatically scan the noise level and display it on a scale.Just slide the slider to a position above the maximum noise peaklevel to ensure that your drum hits will be detected with minimalinterference from ambient sounds.Convenient!
DETECT DRUM PITCHES IN LOUD ENVIRONMENTSAlthough it’s recommended to tune your drum in a more quietenvironment, with the sensitivity switch put to GIG, you can tuneyour drum when your fellow band members are playing theirinstruments or perhaps even when they are rehearsing their licksmeanwhile. DOWNLOAD NOW! FREE DRUM HEAD EXPANSION PACKSSetup your drum kit and select your drum head from DrumtunePRO’s up-to-date drum head library. Join the Drummer Communityto download your free drum head expansion packs.Discover what heads are available from the main manufacturers,conveniently sorted per drum type. ADD DRUM HEADSGet free expansion galleries with batter and resonant drum heads,neatly sorted per drum type and brand. Dress that naked shell withthe drumheads of your choice. VIEW DRUM HEAD SPECSCheck the specifications of every drumhead available, visit themanufacturer’s website with a live-link, to learn more about its construction or sound characteristics.
DOWNLOAD NOW! REE EXPANSION PACKSSubscribe to the drummer community and download free soundcontrol expansion packs (Slapklatz, KickPort, Aquarian, Evans andRemo.) for batter and resonant drum heads, neatly sorted perdrum type and brand. ADD SOUND CONTROLCreate pitch perfect drum tuning presets for gig or studio needsand make them look awesome.Join the Drummer Community to download your free sound control expansion pack and add sound controls to your drum heads! VIEW DRUM HEAD SPECSCheck the specifications of every sound control item available, visitthe manufacturer’s website with a live link, to learn more about itsspecifications. DOWNLOAD NOW! WATCH DRUM TUNING INSTRUCTION VIDEOSDrumtune PRO 1.0 has e few interesting drum tuning videos available that show the drum tuner app in action!The section will soon be expanded with drum tuning videos ofversion 2.0.
You’ll find out that the tuning flow has been much improved and that from version 2.0 and up, a unique and innovative‘lug focus mode’ has been added to deal with unwanted interference from higher order overtones.Browse the list with instruction videos or reviews to watch in yourbrowser! DOWNLOAD NOW! LUG PITCH DRUM TUNERWith the switch set to ‘EDGE’ Drumtune PRO 2.0 lets you fine-tuneyour drum lugs pitch-perfect for that finishing touch!Scan your lugs & Keep visual track of all lug pitch differences whiletuning your drums. Observe which bolts have to be tuned up ordown and match lug pitches to obtain equal overtones along thebearing edge of your drum. BUILT-IN TUNING PATTERN INDICATIONLug tuner mode automatically assists you with tuning your lugs inthe correct order and pattern, pretty cool!Follow automatically indicated tuning patterns to clear your drumheads.Achieve even head tension all along the bearing edge of your drumshell, for a balanced sound with equal overtones and a clear andopen timbre. DOWNLOAD NOW!
FREQUENTLY ASKED DRUM TUNING QUESTIONSBrowse the built-in database with frequently asked questions andto find answers that may provide you with some first aid when being stuck with the app, or with the tuning process.You’ll be able to read-up on seating or clearing a drumhead andother general information that may come in handy when you’re adrum tuning rookie! TROUBLESHOOTING SECTIONA drum tuner troubleshooting section has been added as well. Thissection may jump start you in case of troubles with Drumtune PRO2.0.If the above doesn’t get you going, you can still check some of thevideos or the manual, before contacting support.You are also welcomed to drop us a line on Facebook in a privatemessage!Alternatively, either go to the support section and mail us, or simply shake your device to open our built-in bug reporting and help tool. DOWNLOAD NOW! LEARN ABOUT DRUM TUNING INTERVALSTo learn more about an interval, and hear how it sounds on the piano, just tap an interval name in the list of a list of common tuningintervals.Like a color-range, an interval can bear an emotional connotation.Minor intervals tend to sound more ‘sad, tired, negative and dark’.Major intervals sound more ‘happy, energetic, positive and bright’.
INTERVAL TUNINGYou can tune your drums to any frequencies you like! There are norules here!If you wish to tune your kit to specific intervals, we made this toolfor you to help you tailor your signature kit sound.Tuning your drums to certain intervals can contribute to make yoursound melodic. Many pros do alike to match melody and playingstyle! Advanced tuners may even choose an interval in tune withthe key of a song, to produce a balanced sound in the mix that is inharmony with the emotional style of a song! DOWNLOAD NOW!
DOWNLOAD FREE EXPANSION PACKSSubscribe to the drummer community and download free drum head and sound control expansion packs (Slapklatz, KickPort,Aquarian, Evans and Remo) with batter and resonant drum heads,and sound control items neatly sorted per drum type and brand.Once subscribed via mail or via Facebook you are signed-in intothe Drummer Community automatically!Now you can download all packs for free, via the download sectionin the even more screen. (Internet connection required.)We’ll do our best to update the packs regularly and notify you ofupdates, via push messages.
DOWNLOAD NOW! BUILT-IN DRUM TUNING PATTERNSThere’s no single way to tune a drum properly!However, following certain star shaped tuning patterns providesa good approach to get efficient results when clearing your drumheads or when seating a drum head on the shell’s bearing edge. CHOOSE TUNING PATTERNCheck a list of drum tuning patterns for different lug amounts asdrum tuning guidance.Select a drum tuning pattern that corresponds with your amountof lugs to see an animation of a star shaped sequence that indicates the order in which the tensioning bolts of your drum shouldbe tuned to efficiently achieve a uniform tensioning of the drumhead.
DOWNLOAD NOW! FINE TUNE YOUR SETTINGSCreate your ‘signature drum sound’. Express your individual style!Tailor your sound to suit your personal recording and gig needs!Define fundamental drum tone and sustain. Find out head pitchand sustain to create your own voice.
Tune your drum drum toenhance pitch bend and more Drumtune PRO 2.0 will help you tofind out how to tune your drums with the aid of the drum tuningpreset! Load the preset in the tuner and tune worry free.Edit the drum tuning settings of your drums in their tuning presets.Save any updates to your tuning settings as personal drum tuningpresets, conceniently stored to an easy accessible list.All stored presets are always at hand, ready to be recalled for tuning at any time in the future.
DOWNLOAD NOW! FREE EXPANSION PACKSSubscribe to the drummer community and download free drum head expansion packs (Aquarian, Evans and Remo) with batter andresonant drum heads, neatly sorted per drum type and brand. DRESS THAT NAKED SHELLBrowse through a massive range of drum heads, sorted per manufactuer and drum type. We do our best to update the range regularly!Dress that naked shell with the drum heads of your choice. DRUM HEADS IN 3DEvery modification you make to your tuning preset is carefullyreflected in the user interface.
Your drum head visuals, logos andicons update automatically when you save changes. DOWNLOAD NOW! CHOOSE DRUM BRANDTo further customize your drum tuning preset, we added a selection of common drum brands, and their product range, you canchose from.This list is far from complete, but if you like to see a brand or seriesto be included in the list, we welcome you to inform us about it andwe’ll do our best to include it in a future update.
It would be greatFor now its a limited selection, but with the help of the Drummer Community and our user base, we hope to further extend it!Just reach out if something is missing. DOWNLOAD NOW! DRUM TUNING PATTERNS MADE EASYFine-tune your drum to the right tone right away, in the right way!In lug tuner mode Drumtune PRO automatically shows you whichdrum tuning pattern to use; based upon the amount of lugs ofyour drum.Scan your lug pitches and visualize their differences.
DrumtunePRO clearly shows the detected pitch difference per lug whenworking around your drum head. FINE TUNE IN SMALL STEPSFine-tune in small increments, working around the drum head.Once done fine-tuning a single lug, tap on the display and the virtual drum key automatically points out which lug to fine-tune next.Use lug tuner mode to clear your drum head, when all your lugsare within +/- 4 Hz of your target lug pitch. DOWNLOAD NOW! BASIC DRUM TUNER MODEDrumtune PRO 2.0 has two built-in drum tuner modes.The basic drum tuner mode allows you to quick-tune any drum,without loading a stored drum tuning preset.Select the drum type you wish to tune to enter basic drum tunermode. In basic drum tuner mode you can check your drum’s fundamental tone and lug pitches and clear your drum head perfectlywithin minutes!‘Lock on a target tone’ after you have detected a suitable lug pitch,in order to clear your drum head without the interference from unwanted higher overtones. Release the target tone, to check on thefundamental tone of your drum or to start tuning another drum. PRESET DRUM TUNER MODEThe preset drum tuner mode loads a stored tuning preset fortuning.
The preset drum tuner loads a fundamental and target lugpitches per head as tuning reference! DOWNLOAD NOW! ACCESS USER PROFILESigning in is optional. Drumtune PRO 2.0 comes fully functionaldirectly from the App Store. To be able to install our free expansionpacks, you must join the drummer community by signing up withFacebook or per email.Once you signed up, you’ll be a member of the drummer community and have access all expansion packs and receive your personalaccount. To access your personal account and update your accountdetails, or your profile picture, press the tab at the top of the EvenMore screen. Here you can edit your personal data.
CREATE BACK-UPS / RESTORE TUNING PRESETSWhen you are signed-in, all your personal settings, updates, kits,tuning presets, downloaded expansion packs and so on, can bebacked-up for free in the cloud when you press the back-up button. Once backed-up, you can always restore your data from ourdrummer community cloud.Whenever you change device, or use someone else’s device, simplylog-in and all your data will be accessible via your new device!You will always be able to access your stored tuning presets! DOWNLOAD NOW! ABOUT USFrankly, while we know what sound we're after, we suck at clearing pitches by ear!Tuning by ear, it took us ages to perfectly clear our drumheads and consistently retuning our drums always has been an adventure, never being sure if we could retrieve our sound!We sucked at clearing pitches that much, that we decided to develop a drum tuning tool that would help us to get rid of the guesswork involved with tuning drums by ear! So, we developed Drumtune PRO a drum tuner app that we could always carry with us on our smartphones and that we could trust better than our own ears!It simplified our drummer's life and we hope it will simplify yours too! We're happy to share this advanced drum tuning tool with you, because being drummers ourselves, we built Drumtune PRO 2.0 Drum Tuner for iOS & Android with you, our fellow drummers in mind.Give Drumtyne PRO a try to maximize your sound consistently and with ease!
It is fast, fun and easy to use. Recommended DevicesMicrophone equipped iOS device and iOS 9 or up is required. Designed for: iPhone 5 and up. WARNING: iPhone 4s (or older) and iPad are not supported.Works on:. iOS 9 or up with iPhone 5,iPod Touch 5th generation and up. While tuning it can happen that higher order overtones in the drum sound disturb your pitch readings.This usually happens when these higher order overtones interfere with the lug pitch frequency you wish to detect.Activating the ‘FOCUS MODE’ once a lug pitch is successfully detected, can avoid this from happening, for the hits to follow.
With the focus mode activated, any interference of higher order overtones is prevented and your readings will be back to normal. Note:When it’s difficult to get a correct lug pitch reading, it can be useful to perform following tuning technique:Simply place your finger or a cymbal washer on the drumhead, at approx. 5 cm or 2” from the bearing edge and at 90° from the impact location of the stick. If you hit the drum near a lug located at 12 O’Clock (or North), then place the cymbal washer or your finger at 90° left or right, thus at 3 O'clock (or East) or at 9 O'clock (or West).)This technique will mute higher order overtones for that lug enough to ensure they won’t interfere with the readings anymore and it will provide you a perfect lug pitch reading.
While tuning it can happen that higher order overtones in the drum sound disturb your pitch readings.While tuning it can happen that higher order overtones in the drum sound disturb your pitch readings.Activating the ‘FOCUS MODE’ once a lug pitch is successfully detected, can avoid this from happening, for the hits to follow. With the focus mode activated, any interference of higher order overtones is prevented and your readings will be back to normal.
Note:When it’s difficult to get a correct lug pitch reading, it can be useful to perform following tuning technique:Simply place your finger or a cymbal washer on the drumhead, at approx. 5 cm or 2” from the bearing edge and at 90° from the impact location of the stick. If you hit the drum near a lug located at 12 O’Clock (or North), then place the cymbal washer or your finger at 90° left or right, thus at 3 O'clock (or East) or at 9 O'clock (or West).)This technique will mute higher order overtones for that lug enough to ensure they won’t interfere with the readings anymore and it will provide you a perfect lug pitch reading. Go to the shop section in the ‘even more’ screen.Based upon your location and the availability, all items available for purchase are shown in the shop, neatly ordered in categories.Shop till you drop and add any items you wish to purchase to your cart and proceed to checkout.Just like with any other on-line shop, you’ll have to provide us with your address and shipment details.
Shipping cost will be updated and is included in the price shown on your bill. Credit cards and Paypal are accepted as payment means.We’ll ship the items to you, as soon as your payment is received.After payment, you’ll receive an order confirmation, an invoice and tracking number(s) of your parcel(s) per mail. Once your order is placed and payed, you can track its shipment status from within the app too.Your order history is kept in your profile so you can always consult it later on and print/mail invoices if needed. The ambient setting allows you to adapt the sensitivity of the microphone so drum hits can be detected without interference from any environment sounds.Of course it’s always best to tune in a more silent environment, to ensure proper pitch readings, but Drumtune PRO has been designed to still detect drum pitches in noisy environments.Just set the sensitivity switch to a setting above the indicated max sound level in the real-time noise tracking graph. A setting just above ambient noise level will allow you to detect (gentle) hits on your drum head, without any false hit detections coming from events in the ambient sound.
If you’re not happy with the App or how it performs, please take a moment to contact support and let us know what’s wrong. Your feedback, positive or negative, is useful to us and much appreciated!Within our potential, we wish to make sure you have the best possible experience with Drumtune PRO. Perhaps we can help you solve any possible issue, or perhaps we can improve your app.If you wish to claim a refund for your purchase, then it is required to request it from the App Store, following the procedure as described here. If you did find a bug, then it’s largely valued if you contact support and let us know what’s wrong.To report a bug, please shake your device. This will open our built-in bug reporter. Now, you can easily send us a mail with a screen shot and little description of the bug, so we can understand it better, to solve it better.
We will contact you after your report is received.Alternatively, it’s possible to go to the ‘Even More’ screen, and write us an email from within the contact support section. You can also drop us a line on our FB-page, via private messaging.We do our best to follow-up as fast as possible. Your feedback, positive or negative, is useful to us and much appreciated!We wish to solve any discovered bugs, in order to improve your app and make sure that you have the best possible experience with Drumtune PRO.
Yes, besides instruction videos, tutorials and a FAQ/troubleshooting library, we have an extended manual. The manual is in English only.You can access the manual from within Drumtune PRO from our ‘Even more’ screen Note:When you access the manual for the very first time you need to have an internet connection on your mobile device in order to download it first. Once downloaded it is stored on your device, so you can always access it later on, even when you're not connected to the web. If an update is available it will automatically redownload if a web-connection is present.Alternatively you can:Send an email here to get a.pdf copy of the manual it mailed to you.Download the manual directly from our serverYou can access these tutorials or videos from within Drumtune PRO from our ‘Even more’ screen. Yes, besides a FAQ/troubleshooting library and an extended manual, we’ll make instructional videos and tutorials available over time.
Currently there also are third party videos or videos from earlier releases of the app available.You can access these tutorials or videos from within Drumtune PRO from our ‘Even more’ screen Note:To be able to see these tutorials or videos you need to have an active internet connection on your mobile device.Alternatively you can:Visit our ordirectly to watch any tutorials or instruction videos. Personal accountSigning in is optional. Drumtune PRO comes fully functional from the App Store.To be able to install our free expansion packs, you must join the drummer community. We won’t spam you!Sign-up to join a worldwide drummer community and receive a lot of extra content for FREE, made available from the drummer community cloud.Once you signed up, you’ll be a member of the drummer community and have access to your personal account.To access your personal account and update your account details, or your profile picture, press the tab at the top of the list.If you have an account, you can sign-in and have access to all benefits the drummer community cloud, but of course you can also logout from it without loosing any installed functionality of the app. Sign-inWhen you are signed-in to the drummer community of Drumtune PRO, all your personal settings, updates, kits, tuning presets, purchases and so on, will be saved automatically so you can always restore your data from our drummer community cloud. To get the look and feel right when tuning your drum, pick the drum heads & sound control item that are mounted on your drum.By default there’s a limited collection of drum heads, and sound control items visualized in Drumtune PRO.You have to install the expansion packs to get a full fledged library of drum heads and sound controls.The free expansion packs contain (whenever possible) the full range of sound control accessories and drum heads available from the most significant drum head manufacturers, all neatly arranged per brand and sorted per drum type. We update the packs on regular basis.The free expansion packs are available to members of the drummer community only.Sign-up to join the drummer community and get to download the FREE expansion packs full of sound control items, sorted per brand.
Once the expansion packs are installed, you’ll have access to the manufacturer's full product range. (Updated regularly.). There’s no single way to tune a drum properly!However, the following tuning patterns provide a good approach to get efficient results when preparing your drums before or seating a drum head on its bearing edge.Select a tuning pattern that corresponds with the amount of lugs per drum head of your drum from the list.Tune the tensioning bolts following the sequence as indicated by the selected tuning pattern. Note:Each pattern corresponds to a star shape that indicates the order in which the tensioning bolts of your drum should be tuned to efficiently achieve a uniform tensioning of the drum head.Tuning the tensioning bolts in the sequence indicated by the pattern, helps to keep your drum head properly seated (level and centered) on the drum shell. To obtain a all-round contact between the drum head and the bearing edge of your drum when installing a drum head, place the head well centered on the drum’s bearing edge and rotate it a couple of times until you feel that the contact with the bearing edge is good and the flesh hoop of the drum head is level with the bearing edge of the drum.Next install the counter hoop or rim on the drum head and ensure that it is properly centered with the drum’s shell. Make sure that the counter hoop and the head remain level to the bearing edge.Now it’s best to finger tighten the lugs carefully, before using a drum key.Start finger tightening the tensioning bolts per pair of opposing bolts, to ease keeping drum head level and well-centered in place on the drum.
Keep on following the advised sequence of the tuning pattern for your drum, even when working per lug-pair.During this finger tightening step, make sure that both counter hoop and drum head remain level and centered with the bearing edge during the process. Make corrections if not level or not centered.When the head is sufficiently tightened it will just become responsive and start to sing. Now give the tensioning bolts another ½ with 1 or two drum keys, in the order of the pattern as indicated.When the head is sufficiently tightened it will just become responsive and just start to sing a tad bit. Around this time the wrinkles should start to disappear from the head.Look at the light reflection on the head. Once all wrinkles are disappeared, the drum head is at the right tension to push it with your first or the palm of your hands downwards, a couple of times (like CPR). To ensure proper seating during tuning, it helps to press the center of the drum head with your fist or palm of the hand.Push the head vertically downward, release and tighten the bolts following the cross pattern again. This will redistribute the tension over the head and contribute to an even tensioning of the head.
Make sure that both counter hoop and drum head remain level and centered with the bearing edge during the tuning process. Make corrections if not level or not centered.Repeat the above steps until the head is properly tunedPressing ensures that the bearing edge contact is uniform, resulting in an even tension distribution over the head.It also helps to ensure that the tuning is less prone to variations after playing a while, and so could be kept longer. Note:Never mind any possible cracking sounds coming from your drumhead when seating new heads. The cracking is caused by the glue inside the heads’ flesh hoop, which is adjusting itself to the tension changes of the head.It basically indicates that the drum head is seating itself on the bearing edge of your drum.
When all lugs on a drum head are tuned to the same lug tone, nearby the lugs the head vibrates at the same speed when struck in the center. This produces a uniform range of overtones around the full circumference of the head.In other words, if all lugs are cleared, your drum produces a more defined sound with a clear timbre. A well-cleared drum head has a more a prominent fundamental tone and fewer overtones in its sound palette. This gives a well defined ton and a smooth, harmonious overall sound.The benefits are best audible during the decay of the sustain. It’s great for miking, recording and it is easier on the ears of your audience, as it sounds more melodic and leaves more ‘room’ in your drum sound for the other members of the band. The pitchof a drum sound refers to the frequency or note, corresponding with the fundamental toneof a drum.
Note:The pitch of the attack of a drum is affected by impact strength. The harder the impact the higher the tone of the impact will sound.Depending the individual drum head tunings, the pitch of the fundamental could also feature a pitch bend, like a drop or rise in pitch during the decay of the drum’s sustain.Tuning the lug pitch of the resonant head to match the pitch of the drum shell itself, can help you to find the sweet spot in the tuning range of your drum. The timbreof a drum sound refers to the overall sound pallette, corresponding with the fundamental tone and the relative proportions of all overtones of a drum. Note:The timbre is reflecting the ‘color of a sound’.
A difference in timbre allows us to recognize different instruments playing the same notes.For example a D played on a piano sounds different to a D played on a trumpet or the same D played on a guitar or drum.This is due to the fact that for different instruments, the same fundamentals are completed with proportionally different overtones. The different constructions and materials of the instruments simply cause to generate proportionally different overtones, or a different timbre, when played at the same pitch.Imagine the exact same song played on both, an acoustic guitar, and on an electric guitar.Despite of the fact the exact same notes would have been played on both guitars, wouldn’t both songs sound much different?Both guitars have a completely different timbre, aka acoustic ‘color’ or ‘feel’. This means that both songs are ‘colored’ differently, by the difference in timbre or overtones that is generated by both different instruments, causing the exact same songs to have a completely different ‘feel’. Our ears & brains are very good at perceiving these differences in timbre! While different heads may be tuned to the same pitch, or fundamental tone, they will all have a different sound color or acoustic feel, despite of being perfectly tuned to the exact same fundamental tone.Different drum head types feature a different construction and materials. Unlike with a guitar, where a standardized EADGBE-note tuning for the strings applies for most situations, with drums it’s not required to tune the different drums of your kit to specific standardized notes.You’re free to choose any notes you likeIt’s always a good choice to tune your drum to chromatic notes when you play with other melodic instruments in a band.
This will ensure that your fundamental tone is in tune with the other instruments. However, since a drum produces an almost infinite amount of pitches in its timbre (overtone palette), it can never really sound 100% out of tune with other instruments, when properly cleared.Therefore, it even ain’t required to tune your drum to a note on the chromatic scale at all!You could well choose any frequency between the notes on a chromatic scale to tune your drums to.And if you do so, it is possible to tune the different drums to a specific interval, by respecting the frequency ratios of the interval. A perfectly tuned kit with a killer sound in your rehearsal room, may very well sound awkward when you take it to the bar for your gig, or the studio for a recording.Always try to tune your drum kit so it sounds good in the environment you want to play it in. Hereto it’s best to tune your drum inside the room, at the spot where you’ll be playing. Try to “feel” with your ears, how to meet the environments requirements.The more experience and skill you have, the easier it gets.
But hey, we all start from the beginning. So don’t be afraid to play with the relative tensions of both heads, and the pitch of the fundamental until all sounds right! While tuning it can happen that higher order overtones in the drum sound disturb your pitch readings.This usually happens when these higher order overtones interfere with the lug pitch frequency you wish to detect.Activating the ‘FOCUS MODE’ once a lug pitch is successfully detected, can avoid this from happening, for the hits to follow. With the focus mode activated, any interference of higher order overtones is prevented and your readings will be back to normal.
Note:When it’s difficult to get a correct lug pitch reading, it can be useful to perform following tuning technique:Simply place your finger or a cymbal washer on the drumhead, at approx. 5 cm or 2” from the bearing edge and at 90° from the impact location of the stick.
If you hit the drum near a lug located at 12 O’Clock (or North), then place the cymbal washer or your finger at 90° left or right, thus at 3 O'clock (or East) or at 9 O'clock (or West).)This technique will mute higher order overtones for that lug enough to ensure they won’t interfere with the readings anymore and it will provide you a perfect lug pitch reading. Reboot the app. Reboot your iPhone. Try again.If not solved, delete and reinstall the app from the App Store. (Click ’Allow microphone access’ when asked for when opening the app.)If not solved, then most probably you did find a bug!It’s largely valued if you contact support and let us know what’s wrong, so we can solve it for you.To report a bug, please shake your device.
This will open our built-in bug reporter. Now, you can easily send us a mail with a screenshot and little description of the bug, so we can understand it better, to solve it better. We will contact you after your report is received.Alternatively, it’s possible to go to the ‘Even More’ screen, and write us an email from within the contact support section.
You can also drop us a line on our FB-page, via private messaging.We do our best to follow-up as fast as possible. Your feedback, positive or negative, is useful to us and much appreciated!We wish to solve any discovered bugs, in order to improve your app and make sure that you have the best possible experience with Drumtune PRO. Reboot the app. Reboot your iPhone. Try again.If not solved, delete and reinstall the app from the App Store.
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(Click ’Allow microphone access’ when asked for when opening the app.)If not solved, then most probably you did find a bug!It’s largely valued if you contact support and let us know what’s wrong, so we can solve it for you.To report a bug, please shake your device. This will open our built-in bug reporter. Now, you can easily send us a mail with a screenshot and little description of the bug, so we can understand it better, to solve it better. We will contact you after your report is received.Alternatively, it’s possible to go to the ‘Even More’ screen, and write us an email from within the contact support section. You can also drop us a line on our FB-page, via private messaging.We do our best to follow-up as fast as possible. Your feedback, positive or negative, is useful to us and much appreciated!We wish to solve any discovered bugs, in order to improve your app and make sure that you have the best possible experience with Drumtune PRO.Links on tuningVideo on pitch bend.