You know, at least ONE of you smartasses could have pointed out that I had the Toms mounted incorrectly.
I knew it was wrong, but really scratched my head - the guy had assembled them (not knowing how) so he could take a picture of them.
Then it hit me, he had the mounting arms reversed - the LONG part of the arm goes in the kick drum - not into the Tom!



I had to figure it out on my own...


That's better. Spent 45 mins fixing all of this, then about 40 mins on my lesson.
Sure have a hard time believing I'm ever going to make sounds that even I want to hear!!!