...for what its worth, using a drum dial I tune my batter (Emperor) somewhere in the 90-92 range, and the reso about the same. Then fine tune to suit your ears. A set of 42s also helps. One of the biggest keys is to not choke your wires. Just a smidge above loose works for me. Do these things and itll put you pretty close-
Yeah, that sounds exactly right - from what I read in
A Thunder Of Drums and also extrapolated from a couple guys who actually had Ocheltree tune their kits, Bonham's snare tuning translates to 90-92 batter using a DrumDial (translate as very tight) and 85+ or so on the reso (tight, slightly looser than the batter) and LOOSE wires. I don't think he muffled it at all, but not sure on that one.
However, Bonzo never used a Blackrolite or brass shelled snare.
Yeah, but the Blacrolite uses the
exact same aluminum shell as the Supra. The 6.5" Blacrolite is as close as you can get to Bonham without buying a SupraPhonic.
I have my 5" Acrolite tuned as described above (with 42-strand snare wires as well) and even though the sound lacks depth and a little 'oomph', it sounds very close to Bonham's snare sound. Your 6.5" ought to sound almost identical if you fiddle with the above tuning.
This is the video richj mentioned:
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