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A new tuning system that seems like it would work...

http://www.drumtech.com/dts.html

It looks like it uses a cable to apply equal pressure all the way around a hoop, and it says it eliminates the need to tune with tension rods, but I wonder if you still have to get the tension rods "close" before getting good results with this product.

Might be costly though..

Gee that looks cool...but i wouldn't trust it until a few years down the line when theyve gotten all the flaws out.
Jack

I have not tried one in person but it seems to me that the two lugs nearest the tension device would change more than the ones across the drum.  I wonder how you could get the head in tune with itself using this system.  I could be wrong and I have been wrong many times in the past but I don't see how this would work reliably.

Have seen this at NAMM 3 years in a row, and some of the more adventurous Sam Ash stores carry them.

The system does work, assuming you want equal tuning applied to all rods simultaneously. We all know that sometimes adjusting one rod is just what the Dr. ordered, and for those of us who hit rims, we only need to tweak one or two rods. I don't even know if that can be done once the DTS is installed... there's a lot of pressure on the hoop and rod.

One concern is the extra coordination when changing heads. I already grapple with RIMS on several of my toms, and this would be one more thing to make changing heads more tedious.

The idea of quickly finding the tuning between top & bottom heads is nice, but I've always done fine tuning/tweaking a drum one rod at a time, and never saw it as a problem that needed solving.

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