Snare buzz!

[Drummer 123]

How do you get rid of the annoying snare buzz when you the toms and bass?

[TalonTsi90]

When you what the toms and bass?

[Drummer 123]

Sorry hit

[truckfighters]

heres a video by bob gatzen. i have the smae problem and i didnt find too much help in this video but you might because of set up and tnings are different than mine. i dont know just thought id throw this video up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6oDRwhk-I

[SAManiac]

this has been covered. try using the search funtion or even google for that matter

[nickd]

snare buzz makes your kit sound good. If its annoying you too much, your room is too small. Go out into an open space and you'll wish you still had some buzz.

[beermaniac]

Crank up your snare, reso, and wires. This usually solves it

[digga]

Crank up your snare, reso, and wires. This usually solves it

Noooooooo don't do that! That will kill your snare sound!
Learn to live with the buzz it makes your kit sounding alive!

[TalonTsi90]

Kill your snare sound....? WTF??

[trickg]

How do you get rid of the annoying snare buzz when you the toms and bass?

You don't. You learn that snares buzz sympathetically, it's a fact of life, you learn to deal with it, and then you roll on. Think about it - in the context of a band playing, does it really matter at all?

[nickd]

It's like guys who stress over noiseless guitar pickups.. turn the guitar down between songs?

[drumminjc]

This guy can tune a snare!

Tuning vid -----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwkQQcvzJDM

Playing vid -----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOlKplDW5w

His snare sound is AMAZING!

To the OP, you will never completely get rid of the snare buzz but you can drastically reduce it. Cheers!

[Kiwi]

snare buzz makes your kit sound good. If its annoying you too much, your room is too small. Go out into an open space and you'll wish you still had some buzz.

Didn't know that until I experienced it myself, so true.

[lovetheblues]

Wow, I am beginning to think maybe I am just a difficult B@stard who just likes to argue; so far I disagree with more than half of the posts in this thread.

Firstly, I disagree with the notion of "just live with it"or "it makes your kit sound good". I agree it is not that easy to completely eliminate, but it is very easy to drastically reduce it, and with a bit (or a lot) of careful tuning you can come pretty close to eliminating it. As someone already said, there are many threads dealing with this so do a search. There are also many youtube clips offering help so search there too. To summarise that advice, they generally fall into 2 categories:

1. Change the tuning of your snare or your toms so that snare and toms are tuned differently, as sympathetic buzz is maximised when your toms are tuned close to your snare. Also tune your snare bottom head a third up or a third down from your top head, to shorten yoru snares resonance hence shorten duration of snare buzz.
2. Various ways to reduce the sensitivity of the snares to external vibrations, but with the draw-back of reducing your snare's overall sensitivity. For example, slightly detune the 4 tension rods nearest where the snare straps come out (2 on each side).

Secondly, completely disagree with the advice to just crank it. In fact cranking the bottom head increases sensitivity hence can increase sympathetic buzz.

[TalonTsi90]

I found that cranking the res double what the batter is made the batter more sensitive. Not sure where i got the idea but it works.