How do you dampen your kick drum?

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I use a small bass drum muffling pillow. It's made by Protection Racket. It works really well.

It's a bit like the Evans one mentioned. It bounces off the head when you hit it, and falls back onto the head shortly after to dampen the sound.
 
My drummer - Evans EMAD with the foam strip, Evans EQ3 reso head. Still a little live for recording, though.

Me - in my 20" kick - generic heads, very loose, one pillow (it says "soft" so you know that it is). Lots of punch.

In my 22" kick - Evans EQ2 batter with kickpad, EQ3 reso. Again, this is a little live for recording. If I'm going to close mic a kick, I'll use my 20.
 
I like the Evans pillow thing that velcroes to the inside of the drum.. it stays put and is easy to adjust....doesnt shift like pillows tend to do.
 
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SillyBee said:
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Originally Posted by BroKenSticKs
I don't.


Same!


Same!



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I hear that! (and so does everyone else in the room, heh heh).
 
I use Evans Pillows, the ones with the "Gate" on them, and then I have a king size foam pillow on top of that.


For double bass work, I hate a ringing kick drum.


Tim
 
I used to use a pillow. Oddly enough, I would just set it inside the drum, almost touching neither of the heads, just the shell. Maybe a little catey-corner, so that just a little cloth was touching either of the heads. Mostly it was there to disturb the air column. That made the kick a little punchier. Now I just tape a shop towel to the shell, and have it barely touch the batter head.
 
I used to have only a pillow, no I've just moved to a smaller sized blanket...
I actually use 2 bass drums, so I've got 1 big blanket and trimed it in half so I have the exact 2 things inside the drum....
 
iceyflame said:
hey man, this is brokensticks from PDF yeah?
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I think there are plenty more guys from PDF :)...Funky Animal here...duhhh..
 
Egg Crate bedding

I've currently got 2 inch thick egg crate foam evenly covering the entire interior surface of a 22" BD with thick heads and overstuffed it so it stuck out of drum about an inch on each side before mashing it down with the heads. I initially predicted this would deaden it too much as well as reduce the usable head size resulting in less bottom end but it actually had the opposite effect and emphasized the lowest frequncies in such a way that it almost sounds like its been EQ'ed and compressed. Very solid, controlled, and deeper frequencies than I had ever gotten before. Has absolutely no ring either but may not the best if your seeking a lot of sustain.
 
Don't put pillows inside your bass drums !!!!!!!

W I D E O P E N is best!

I have a 24" x 14" bass drum. Coated ambassadors batter and reso with an evans eq patch on the batter to stop the head splitting.

If i need to i use felt strips front and back.

On the batter i use a strip at the top and on the reso i use a strip along the bottom so i still get that big full sound.
NO PILLOWS!!!!

This i find works great on nearly every size bass drum not just one like mine, its natural and how the drum is supposed to sound.

Rock On Brothers!!!!!
 
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