Soundproofing

[Me78332]

I play drums at my local church with a very nice kit, I have plexiglass around the kit but the kit is in a cornor, because the kit is in a cornor the plexiglass is almost usless someone please help me and the sound tech figure a way out to shut the drums up!!!

 

[scrubs]

Are you saying they're too loud during the service? Or, do you want to isolate them from the rest of the room?

If they're just too loud during the service, play softer, use brushes or dowel rods (hot rods, etc.), and dampen the heads.

If you're talking about isolating the drums so they can't be heard well outside of that room, you will need major construction. Plexiglass won't do anything for that.

 

[Me78332]

to loud for the service, i do play very soft but because of the wall behind me any sound is almost aplified, the heads are dampened, but i am probaily going to put carpet foam on the back

 

[sushi-mon]

I used to play at a church service, but was not back against a wall. I used the remo muffle system on both the top and bottom heads to help deaden the ring. I also played with a brush/stick combo.

Are people complaining ? Maybe ask them to "turn up" !!!

 

[Dani Pace]

Get out of the corner. A corner works somewhat like a megaphone and will make drums seem louder than they really are. The sound from drums projects in all directions so placeing them in a corner not only allows the front sounds out, it reflects all the back sounds into the room as well making the drums sound louder. I have never been able to understand why so many people want to stick a drummer in a corner then complain about him being too loud but it happens all the time. Sound absorbing panels on the walls behind the drums may help some but moving the set out of the corner will be a lot easier and serve the purpose better and will make your job (as drummer) and the sound man's job easier too.