The Stealth line looks like a conventional snare drum but has the option of using it as a free-floating system.
In the picture, you see a prototype with the Stealth tube lugs. These modified lugs give you the freedom of using your snare as a conventional one or as a floating one.
You can also just use this system to improve the tuning. The advantage of floating drums is that the tension of the lugs is spread both over the hoop and between the top and bottom heads. This eliminates most of the overtones that cause a drum to sound out of tune or just bad.
With the Stealth series, all the hardware is fixed to the shell as with a conventional snare. By using these centre-based tube lugs, you minimise the amount of hardware touching the shell.
A conventional snare has a very complex frequency signature, and one way of simplifying that complex signature is to make sure that the airflow inside the shell is unobstructed.
Because the stave shell is relatively thick, there is room to countersink the fixing bolts for the hardware. This removes anything sticking out from the inside of the shell, making it nice and smooth.
The converted tube lugs can also be fitted to your own snare to convert it to a floating snare without changing the look of your snare (much).
In this picture, you see on the left a normal tube lug that you can buy in many shops. It has a grub screw in the bottom of the base that holds the tube lug in place. This grub screw goes in the same hole as the fixing screw.
By moving this grub screw to the outside of the base (see on the right), you now have the choice of making your snare or tom into a free-floating one by the turn of a key.
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