wallet trick

[Nubus]

wallet sounds great on snare drum but it always falls off. has anybody tried the remo active snare damper? i do tape too,and last night i found a great replacement for tape on the snare: STICKY HAND.

[johnS]

Yeah, "Active Snare Damping" sounds like something that's easily DIY. A small bag of sand tied to the rim of the snare seems like it would work just as well. What is STICKY HAND? (Or do we want to know?)

[dagosto]

Do you mean the sticky hand you get from the little vending machines at Osco. HAHAHAHA!! That's rich.

[Nubus]

exactly! the pizza parlor near my house has them for a quarter!

[smopo24]

i just use a lot of tape, seems to work fine.

[lukedavo]

Those sticky hands are freakin sweet, I never thought of that. They pretty much do the exact same thing as moon gels, except for cheaper. Great idea, i figure one of those machines is more than likely closer than a music store, and with a moon gel you cannot slap your singer in the face with out getting up from the throne. Freakin sweet

[MarlonBrandoCalrissian]

the "tone control" rings, or "deadringers" do well, especially for toms and if you like to remove all of your snare's overtones. Aquarian and Remo make them; though some of them are thinner than others so as with all things you have to experiment.

[sid vicious]

additional options might be Moongel or a band aid with a small piece of cotton underneath. also, Evans makes a great dampener that is minimal.

[MarlonBrandoCalrissian]

for the longest time I just used paper towels and masking tape on the inside of the head. worked okay..but it was rather unscientific and trashy looking.

[smopo24]

i was tought "the wallet trick" was mostly using your wallet to tune toms, anyone else use their wallet for that?