Tension rods coming lose easily.

[Sethiroth]

I've been playing my CB's for about 2 months, and one thing I have noticed is my tension rods are coming lose pretty quickly.
I will tune my toms, and by the end of practice, they will be pretty much de-tuned, and in some cases the tension rods will be essentially finger tight.
This is my 3rd kit that I've bought brand new, and never had this problem with my other 2 kits.
Anyone else having this issue?

[scooterdavis]

No offense, but those crystal beats seem a bit in the cheap side. I don't mean to pick on you specifically, it's just an opinion I've been holding in for some time.

[dale w miller]

Are they not the same lugs as most Pearl kits?

[DeanHartley]

Tuner fish lug locks are awesome and would probably have a color to match your kit. I use them on my snare.

[dale w miller]

There are also those rods called Tightscrew.

http://www.drumfactorydirect.com/ind...acturers_id=54

[ThugsRook]

stretch the drumheads before tuning them.

[Sethiroth]

stretch the drumheads before tuning them.

Yea, it could be the cheap stock heads. I did stretch them a bit, but all my previous kits had higher quality stock heads from the factory.

[Raider09]

After 6 months of playing my CRB kit, this would be my only complaint. (The drums look and sound fantastic...especially with the Drumlite LED's.) Recently, I noticed my bass drum batter head was slowly turning while we jammed. During a break, I looked down and noticed two of the claws had actually fallen on the floor as they had come so loose. I tightened everything back up, and be the end of jamming they were very loose again....ready to fall off again. I have all stock heads except for the batter head, so this puzzles me. The toms/snare are not nearly as bad as the bass drum (in terms of tension issues,) but I find this very strange.

[Raymond Massey]

Hi Raider09

Sorry to hear you are having some trouble . We haven't had this to be an issue although sometimes with non-machined rods there can be some variance with the plating factor. Check your inbox for PM
Thank you for playing Pearl!

[Stuffed Chimp]

After 6 months of playing my CRB kit, this would be my only complaint. (The drums look and sound fantastic...especially with the Drumlite LED's.) Recently, I noticed my bass drum batter head was slowly turning while we jammed. During a break, I looked down and noticed two of the claws had actually fallen on the floor as they had come so loose. I tightened everything back up, and be the end of jamming they were very loose again....ready to fall off again. I have all stock heads except for the batter head, so this puzzles me. The toms/snare are not nearly as bad as the bass drum (in terms of tension issues,) but I find this very strange.

I've got the exact same problem with my mmp. My dealer is sending me new tension rods to see how they help so I'm hopeful this will be solved. It's a BEAUTIFUL kit when tuned up but sometimes as little as 15 minutes of playing gets it out again. I've also had the tension rods fall out on the reso side - it's beyond aggravating but the whole thing sounds so good when it's back in tune that I can't be angry for too long.

On the plus side my tuning speed is going through the roof with the sheer amount of times I have to retune!

[StickS707]

I've got the same issue...I thought it might be a combination of low tuning and the DrumLites, but I don't have the issue with my other Pearl kits. I've tried tuning higher, but have the same issue. Floor Toms are the worse offenders, in my case. I was contemplating ordering new lugs and tension rods, but it's a 7 pc kit...that's a lot of lugs and tension rods.

[MitchLyons]

I've got the same issue...I thought it might be a combination of low tuning and the DrumLites, but I don't have the issue with my other Pearl kits. I've tried tuning higher, but have the same issue. Floor Toms are the worse offenders, in my case. I was contemplating ordering new lugs and tension rods, but it's a 7 pc kit...that's a lot of lugs and tension rods.

Get luglocks or tight rods

[StickS707]

Get luglocks or tight rods

I get it, however, when you pay for a new kit, you should not have to buy extra stuff to make it do what it is supposed to do. If it was used or old, or the tension rods got loose over time (a week...but even that is too much), then yea. But when the tension rods are coming loose completely during a 1 hour set, then there is an issue. Even my '96 Export Select holds it's tuning for over a week (longer, actually).
I'm a Pearl guy...I still own the kits and snares in my sig...and use them...so I know Pearl makes good stuff. I'm just a tad disappointed with the CRB...I thought it was just my kit, but now I know that there is definitely something going on.

[StickS707]

Also...does anyone have the specs on the tension rods? for the 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, and kick. The snare seems to be okay-ish.

[ThugsRook]

sounds like the drums were made slightly undersized, and the heads hang over the edge a bit.