Evans Torque Key - Drum Key Tuner - Magnetic Drum Tuner - Drum Tuning Key with Tension Setting - Ergonomic Drum Torque Key

Little "torque wrench" is a must have for easy and even tuning. Great when you don't have experience tuning drums.

What a useful, and cool product, the people at Evans had taken a tool that is so mundane, that it's given away in most instances, well they made it proper, now you know when to stop, the Evans Torque drum key TELLs you. Accompanied by all of there other mindfully manufactured products, it's great to have in my band... It's indestructible on top of being a highly functional tool, I'm going to use it with my RC cars. Great to tighten their wheels..

This tool saves me time and makes it easier and quicker to tune my drums. It will NOT tune your drums for you nor is it in any way a substitute for traditional tuning. What it will do is FACILITATE your tuning efforts. First, and foremost, and this is mandatory. You MUST lubricate your lugs. I use Lug Lube but any lightweight non-graphite oil will work. If you fail to do this then this tool is of less value since any rusty or sticky lugs will have more resistance than others, defeating the purpose of the tool. Second, the tool is NOT precise. It does however get you close very quickly. It makes for a quick starting point. It's precision is much better IMO for higher tension uses than low tension ones. Hence, it does a better job on snares and smaller toms than it does bigger ones. But again, remember its purpose and limitations: it gets you quickly to a near-tuned state, from which you can now spend your time tuning. I use it in concert with a DrumDial. In summary, I like this product and use it nearly every time I tune. If used properly it saves time and pro ides convenience.

It really practical and functional tool for your drums, easy to use and practice to have with you throughout your concerts

I bought this product even though there were several mixed reviews about it. I am glad I did. I am a beginner and have only tuned my kit by ear once before. I used this key for the first time 2 days ago as I bought a second bass and floor tom to add to my kit. I had to assemble my new drums when they arrived and tune them. There are many instructional videos on youtube on how to use this key but, in my opinion, not very good and not much help to me. The instructions that came with this torque key was not very clear either. To use this properly, you should turn the dial counter-clockwise all the way to zero until it stops (this was not mentioned in the product instructions or any of the instructional videos I've seen). Then, you can set the tension you want and start tuning your drums in the star pattern as usual. Once the tension is reached, the key will click and you can move on to the other lugs. Of course, you should only turn each lug 1/4 at a time and not turn it all at once until you hear the click. For me, I still fine tune my drums by listening after all the lugs have reached the same tension. I should mention that the dial on the key can go around twice. This means that if you want to set your tension at, say 12, you would turn the dial clockwise passed zero and set it to 2. At least, this is how I used this key and it seems to work for me as my drums sound pretty good. I think of this key as just a tool to help you tune your drums quicker with not much guess work, especially, if you're not good at tuning by ear. It was well worth what I paid for.

Make drum tuning SOOOO much easier. Just have write down the setting for each drum to remember. But yes I love it.

Awesome tool

Comparing to the 2 other popular tuners at twice the money, this is a steal. Easy and fast to operate and right in tune.

Je suis très content de cette clé avec laquelle je réalise de sérieux gains de temps lors des phases de réglage. Recommandé.

Excelente para afinação de bateria. Aplica mesmo torque em todos os parafusos.

As a person who loves doing minimal work to get things done. This is much better than the DrumDial. It may not be the BEST way to tune drums, but it is much faster and easier to do that the Drum Dial. I heard on a forum that you only use this to torque down your lugs, not to loosen them too. Keep that in mind. Cheers

Bra kvalité.

It's a nice tool to use for my drum kids.