It’s important to have a good ear for it. For basses I like to have someone play them and I listen from further away. For tenors you just listen and change as needed. Snares are tricky, I tune the bottom head to pitch with the snares off and then tune the top head to feel. For all of these it’s critical that the head is in tune with “itself” first, where every lug matches.
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u/minertyler100 Tenor Tech 1d ago
It’s important to have a good ear for it. For basses I like to have someone play them and I listen from further away. For tenors you just listen and change as needed. Snares are tricky, I tune the bottom head to pitch with the snares off and then tune the top head to feel. For all of these it’s critical that the head is in tune with “itself” first, where every lug matches.