I wondered if many other people use electrical/duct tape to muffle the sound of drums? That's what I do. I don't have a great set, so I don't spend any money on it ever. What are some things you do to your drumset to fix and/or improve it, without buying anything?

Alot of drummers put duct tape on their drums. I tried it once but i took them off. Also, i heard of some drummers putting some tape on their cymbals if you want to try that out. Ive never done it. I cant really think of anything else right now though.

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used to use it, but I discovered a while back that actually paying the cash is better in the long run, I wish I had one of my drumming buddys here, he has home made cymbal stackers and other bits....

it is hilarious

fucking awesome drummer though

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All I've got on my set (since I'm not a fulltime drummer) is a bass, high hat, crash cymbal, and snare. I've got tape on all of 'em. My bass sounded too gay and timpani-like. My snare rang out too much. My crash was a little too open and drawn out. And my highhat pedal broke, and I had them just sitting on top of each other loosely--which didn't do good for faster drumming--so I made them sound a little more closed. And that's as good as my set gets.
But if I had toms, I'd definitely duct tape those. They're so gay and ringy sounding without it. In comparison to actual mufflers (i think that's what you call them anyway), I don't see much of a difference.
But I'm surely not putting any money toward my crap set. So I figured I'd see who else took the low approach and tried to fix it themselves.

How do you mean duct taping your drums? do you mean covering the whole head in tape? or putting strips across the diameter? or just a little bit? or what?

sorry its just ive heard about this but never found out exactly how to do it

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Well, there's several ways to do it, but I've never known anyone to cover the entire head. What I personally do is place electrical tape (about 2 to 3 inches long) on the upper part of the snare head, and then put another peice of tape on top of that, and another if needed (I usually don't place the tape directly on top of the last peice, but rather fo alittle off-center). Basically, to ease the reverb/deepness/gayness of the snare (or any drum), the tape acts as a muffler. For the bass drum, I put serveral patches of tape all around the outer edge of the head. Cymbals don't need much tape, if any at all. But toms definitely could use some duct or electrical tape if not supported by a muffler. You can line the outer edge of the head with it, or just patch a spot in layers. Whichever you like best.
(sorry, that was probably confusing. but i'm not in the explaining mode right now. )

if you want it quiet and not really resonent, like a jazz sound definately some duct tape helps, you can also get those plastic loop things you can put on your head, people use things like that more for a recording sound<if you arent in a studio> than just a normal means of muffling the heads, it just sounds like you should get new heads at some point, if not then i guess duct tape is a good idea