Comments on: How To Get A Fat Snare Sound https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/ The Drumeo Beat delivers drumming videos, tips, articles, news features, and interviews with your favorite drummers. Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:10:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Jeff https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/#comment-6798 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:30:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3969#comment-6798 For certain tunes, I put loose leaf paper right on the snare drum. One sheet works, but a few sheets gives you that fatback sound. Mind you, a double-stroke roll becomes extremely hard to pull of with paper on top, but for a quick fat sound it works. I would also never de-tune a head like that and hit it very hard. This could ruin the collar, which would cause a lot of trouble trying to re-tune the drum. BUT – If this is a sound you like, find an old snare drum head and use it for this purpose; otherwise, the paper trick works well for recording.

]]> By: Chris https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/#comment-6786 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:09:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3969#comment-6786 1. Not sure tightening the bottom head that much let’s the snare wires be more sensitive. You’re “pulling” the head away. A looser head “sits” on the wires more. That being said, I do like the sound.

2. Get snare head, flip it upside down, put on snare, and you got a very similar sound. And don’t have to touch the tuning of your snare!

]]> By: Peter Cyr https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/#comment-6779 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:13:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3969#comment-6779 I have an older, brass, Pearl 14 x 6 that is solid enough for this all the time. I love what this method does with this particular snare. I have to say that I have a custom, 14 x 6 Maple stave with oak lug bodies and oak segmented rims that I would never do this with. But then it isn’t really the sound I am going for with this particular drum.

]]> By: Micheal A. Moss https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/#comment-6778 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 01:20:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3969#comment-6778 UH NOOOOOO! I doesn’t sound good at all!

]]> By: Joshua Carson https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/#comment-6777 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:29:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3969#comment-6777 I have seen this, and variations on it, online, but the big problem is that you can’t leave the tuning like this for long while using standard triple-flange hoops….they will warp or bend and possibly hurt the shell as well. It is OK for a short while in the studio. Also, it is inconvenient when playing live, because of the time factor involved in tuning between songs, and trying to do it in a noisy environment (unless you have a TuneBot, or some such aid.)
Stanton Moore had a quick fix: have an extra snare head, preferably one that is 1″ smaller in diameter, place it upside down on the snare, and play…instant Al Green fat snare sound!

]]> By: Dave Hampton https://www.drumeo.com/beat/fat-snare-sound/#comment-6776 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3969#comment-6776 WHY would it want to do this? It sounds HORRIBLE!! If an engineer or producer can’t deal with a mid or high pitched snare, he/she shouldn’t be mixing drum tracks.

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