How I mount my Roto Toms
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2022
- I have received a ton of questions about how I mount my Root Toms. You may be surprised by my really low-tech and simple solution! This way you can position the drums conveniently wherever you want PLUS you can still tune them by simply rotating them on the center tuning screw as they were designed to be tuned and adjusted. Check it out!
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Thomas is getting quite good at drums these days, I'm thinking in a few years he'll be able to even do a drum roll!
Thanks Thomas, this was instructive. Maybe I should add some roto toms on my VAD506, would look great and spice a bit up my drum covers 🔥
I love it, "this is just a low tech solution". Thomas Lang finds all of the solutions to his mounting techniques, and it's always high tech, even if it's technically low tech.
Pure genius! What a great tip. Thank you so much Mr. Lang!
My late dad came up with a similar trick some time ago, and I still use it today! Neat one!
Dude! I just won an eBay auction on a 6” Remo roto, yesterday. Then this video of yours pops up today w/ u holding a 6” roto!?!?! Lol. Too cool. Thanks for this idea of mounting.
Genius way to mount!!. I can do that on my Yamaha Hex 2 rack too. I am currently using rail on a stand, and a friend modified a way for me, but that is awesome as a solution.
Thanks! I just got a set of rototoms and I love them so much
Damn that's a f-ing game changer. Switching the tom mount side to fit smaller pieces. Genius.
Thomas MacGyver
Nice! Don't have rototoms, but got the DW rack and have a similar problem, great trick👍👍
Terry Bozzio, Missing Persons (US Drag) era drumkit.
I like the way these are mounted though.
That to me has always been the biggest problem to find a solution for so I still rock the original Remo stands.
Thanks for showing this Thomas!
An excellent Roto-tip!
Very helpful! So smart and simple. I like smart and simple.
That is very innovative! I always see the Remo rack that holds 3 in a row.
Genau nach diesem Video habe ich verzweifelt gesucht!
Danke😉👍🏻
That is so simple and so smart my jaw dropped. And now I feel ashamed I never thought of this.
Great solution! Not only for Rotos!
I use the top tube of a boom cymbal stand, the part with the gear tilter. I put the roto tom bolt through the boom clamp and then use a multi clamp to attach it to my rack or a cymbal stand. This allows me to tilt, rotate and move the roto tom closer or further away.
I found that eyebolt clamps work fantastic too. Although you have to completely unscrew the drum and ring off the screw though then slip clamp through then reattach everything
Wow, how did I never think of that? I don't have roto toms but I was given a pdp rack recently by my former neighbor who recently moved, and as I was starting to put it together, I noticed some of the cymbal arms from my old stands were too narrow for the V clamps. I was about to shell out a bunch of money for wider cymbal arms, but thankfully I saw this before I made the purchase!
So smart, thanks for the tip!
Yo I just learned something today thank you TL
Nice set up!
The DW dog bones work as well (DWSM788 are the ones I use)
THANK YOU tom, my name is tom and i am a oldschool 80's roto-tom drummer, i had the classic ones 3 piece , talk soon , thanks > tom !
Smart solution
The roto tom threaded stem is just under 1/2 inch. Gonna try this with a gibralter rack clamp.
Smart idea I love it
I saw a guy on Reverb (IIRC; Edit: Yep, Brian Totten MFG) who makes and sells a replacement part for the "mounting bolt" part of the rototom. The upper part is threaded to the same pattern as the hardware store carriage bolt that all rototoms use, but the bottom has a larger-diameter (3/4" or 1") knurled base to fit into common clamps. Seemed like a decent way to do it.
And costs a F’ing fortune. The guy should be ashamed of himself for what he asks for those. You could buy a nice new snare for what it would cost to set those up on a full kit.
@@RustyKnorr Quality ain't cheap! His are a single lathed piece of metal with a knurled clamping surface on the bottom. Kind of a specialty thing that has to be made specifically for the purpose.
Creative Percussion makes a similar, less expensive item. Keep in mind that the long hex nut that your clamp attaches to appears to be attached to the threaded rod via a single set screw, which is not ideal. But if the threaded rod is drilled with a recess for the set screw to sit in, and the set screw is fitted so that its head is even with the surface of the hex nut, it will probably get the job done well enough. Your clamp should keep the set screw from backing out far enough to allow free rotation.
..uma coisa tão simples. Muito bom!
of course!!! Thanks Thomas!
When I was in college, Terry Bozzio and Missing Persons hit the music scene. I *loved* his rototom kit... and those chinas and stacks! One of the drummers I met in school played in a cover band and his kit used rototoms. They cut through the live mix like nothing else...
My next kit is going to have rototoms.
That was a lot of the inspiration of this kit! Terry has been into our place quite a bit recently and we love that vibe!
I use a spark plug 3/8 drive socket attached to the roto tom locking bolt. lock the socket with the bolt that comes with the roto tom or use a nylon locking bolt of the same size with a washer. the square on the bolt attach to square opening on the socket. will work with any Gibraltar style clamp. For the larger clamps I use Bell Bicycle wheel foot peg attached to the roto tom bolt. foot pegs are the same size as the racks tubing....... will work on any rack .... Thomas feel free to reach out to me for any ideas and photo,s .
Genius. 👍
Thanks a Lot Master 👍
Duuuuuude! That is F-ing genius!!!!!
This works with the gibralter rack, and clamps, too. The whole roto tom rail system is stupid. I mount roto toms on my rack above 2 24x16 kick drums. Thanks Thomas. 6 8 10 12 14 on the rack, and 16 18 on the floor.
Wish I had thought of this decades ago.
A 3/8 drive standard socket attached to the carriage bolt will make a better and solid adaptor-using same lock down nuts-may need to drill socket to 3/8 so bolt can slide through.
Genius.
This is what I did in the early 90’s. I had the Remo Bee-line Roto-toms. Quite dreadful but hey at least I could play Slayer and Rush with the higher voices. At first I hack sawed the original Remo rail into smaller pieces but that didn’t help all that much. I ended up doing something similar here with a combination of Pearl and Tama multi clamps.
if youve got access to a machine shop a great way to do this might be to make some threaded spacers that get put on each rod. big enough diameter with some knurling that a normal clamp can grab on to, without sacrificing the ability to put them back on a normal remo rail if you need to. maybe with a grub screw to keep it from spinning itself up and down.
There's a guy on Reverb that makes this idea in one piece. Brian Totten MFG. Let's face it: Who is gonna put the thing back on the Remo track mount? No one. And even if the odd person did, it needs hardware store carriage bolt you can buy anywhere.
I successfully mounted a Roto tom using a DW dogbone.
Anyone know where I can get the coach bolt for these? Or what size stud I need to get? I have a rototom but it has no threaded bar/stud/coach bolt what ever you call it
Great for good Idea thanks Thomas Edgar cruz Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
👍Noice!
Just replace the 3/8 thread with one from home depot and put a 3/8 inch coupling on one end.
OMG GENUIS ABSOLUTE GENUIS!!!!!
would it be a good idea to put some foam or tape inside the clamp so you don't mar the threads on the carriage bolt?
Then you can’t twist the drum to tune it. I tried tape, and it’s flimsy. Do it like Thomas.
That is a great idea, but won't the screws be damaged?
Interesting solution, but I ended up cutting old cymbal stand tubes, maybe about 3 inches long, and using a nut to create a larger surface for the clamp to grip. Take the big screw out, put the cymbal stand piece down to the bottom, then screw the nut down to where the cymbal stand part is. Then set up the Roto, and go from there!
Genius
Nice idea. Has to sit tight enough to spin the tom for tuning though.
its a piece of dw hardware, you can tighten it til you crush the thing if you wanted.
Put a piece of round stock with a thread in or a couple nut on the threaded rod
Thomas♌Lang is The Terminator on Drums🥁.
Huh! Clever girl :)
Thomas- the world needs an updated roto! Make something new and put your name on it, dude!
DITTO
genius
Solving problems I didn't even know I had.
Best thing I have seen so far is to sandwich a piece of 3/4" black iron pipe between some nuts and washers. Won't ruin your threads this way.
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That's a better way of mounting roto toms
*gets closer* “my god you’re greasy”
I dunno i truly don't feel one should mount the drum set its not a horse 😁
Gibraltar do an even better clamp and it's half the price. It's called a multi-angle multi-clamp...just over $20....DW= Dreadful Waste....of money...