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Sounds like a bottom head problem. It's possibly too loose, or very, very tight.
A safe place to start on snare for me is medium to tight on the reso (snareside) and medium on the batter.

 and... if you recently changed out the wires or the bottom head, make sure you've routed the string or plastic strip correctly. It is possible to mount the snare wires wrong and prevent them from proper contact with the head.

Not that I've ever done that, just before a gig... but I saw... umm... I saw a FRIEND do it... yeah, that's the ticket...

I got my snare to sound alot better, but now it has a large overtone. This has never happened to me before  What is causing this large overtone.

I don't have the cash to be spending on tuning lessons. lol. I used some moongel. but my snare sounded way to dry.

the main thing is, is that I hate muffleing. lol

My snare still sounds like crap. I am really really extremely frustrated, I really just felt like throwing the @$%# thing down my stairs. I just bought a emperor coated skin and put it on and it still sounded terrible. I am really pissed off for the time being. Is there any other suggestions out there??

Yea. I've done everything in the book. Plz no more video recommendations. I've personally E-Mailed the guy also. Nothing has worked...

What about the fact my drum is so deep? There has to be some sort of a technique to tuning deep drums, something different than thinner drums.

Oh, for heaven's sake - take a freaking lesson with a real live pro drummer. If you can afford a PorkPie snare, and multiple heads for it - you can afford one drum lesson.

Have someone in the store show you how to do it -- when I worked at a store I did a lot of tuning-crash-courses. 

If you're having difficulty it's likely you'll have the same difficulty on another drum. Better to work with what you have and get the basics down.

For the snares... you've probably got the tension on the heads tight to over-cranked. Back the tension off a bit. Now, take your strainer and with the snares ON, back the tension down to about half of the total range. Now physically tighten the snare cord/ribbon/tape in the strainer and butt. Don't crank it so it's already super tight, but make sure they are cleanly engaging the head. If you turn the drum upside down (as if you were going to play it) and the snares sag away from the head, they're too loose. Go back and tighten them.

Now flip the drum back over and tighten the strainer until you get the snare sound you like. Remember, it's as much about the tuning as it is the snare tension, but this method should be a quick and easy way to rule out the snares themselves as the culprit.

Beyond that, just make sure you're using snare side heads on the snare side and you should be home free.

Sorry if any of it seems obvious -- not the intent to annoy. Just want to rule out the obvious problems.

That's my point.
This forum, Bart's lessons and stuff on YouTube like the Gatzen videos are all great resources, but sometimes you just need to get hands on help to get to the root of the problem.
Yes, it's money - I don't know how much, ask for help at your local drum store - but $20, $50, $??, is preferable to throwing the drum out of the window in frustration isn't it?
Sometimes money is well spent.

Ditto what Bart, Chris and Chonson have said. We get so used to getting everything on the Internet that it's easy to assume it holds the solutions to all life's problems. It doesn't. Sometimes you have to deal with people face to face, and even - gasp - spend some money.

Speaking of money, to me $200 is NOT cheap. Most of my snares cost less than that, and I've been playing professionally for many years. Unless there is a flat-out defect in the drum, it should be tunable. The PorkPies I've played have all been killers.

Anyway, be patient, be appreciative (of all the people taking the time to try to help you), and good luck.

I'm sorry for coming off as an ass. I was just really frustrated and rushed due to the fact I had a show coming up and my band mates were not being the most patient people on the planet. Just to add, I'm just a 16 year old angst ridden teenager, who doesn't like to admit I'm wrong  By the way, my gig was terrible due to the fact my snare was outta whack. It was either that or because I let my drum OCD take over my mind to think it sucked. I still plan on selling it because it is to deep and doesn't have the sensitivity I need for playing funk. I had bought the drum almost 3 years ago and I guess my ears are looking for something else. I found someone to buy it for the same price I bought it for, despite that one of the hoops is dented. And about the tuning lesson, my local store I used to take lessons at doesn't have tuning lessons (Idk why), so my dad has started to search for drummers he is friends with to see if they will give me some pointers. Thx for all the help on the forum though, and thx for the offer Bart, but I doubt my parents will let me go to nashville for a drum lesson 

I've never tuned a porkpie drum myself, so I can see that it might take time to get used to. Do you have another SD? I'm curious why you needed this type of drum so bad for a gig, since it unfortunately brought about so much drama. Hopefully, you have learned a lot from it.
I think whenever you try a new drum, you should expect a bit of trial and error before you are comfortable with it. I hope you have a 51/2 x 14" to mess with also.

Good luck!

I've got nothing to say that Chris, Chonson, Bart and the inimitable Mr. A haven't already said.

Stick around Pfunk, there's going to be plenty of questions, frustrations, joys and achievements as you move forward with your drumming career. There is no better bunch to share them with than the people around here.