Evans Soundoff Drum Mute Pads - Great to Silence Acoustic Kits - Fits 16+18" Crash Cymbals

I use these Evans SoundOff mutes on two fixed hi-hats with a a 14" mute drum pad inside the h-hat as well. Sounds daft until you attach a Piezo pickup with 1/4" jack socket to the underside of the top hi-hat cymbal.... and hey presto you now have an Electronic fixed hi-hat to put into your A2E drum kit. Most drum modules work the open and closed off the pedal so doesn't matter that the cymbals are closed all the time. I also put some of the same mutes onto 14" Crash Cymbals and purchased a couple of the 20" and 22' Ride versions of the mute. Same thing again, attached a Piezo pickup to each cymbal. I now have a full A2E (mesh headed) drum kit with about 9 real cymbals on it that I can play at anytime of the day without disturbing any neighbours. The thunk from striking the cymbals and hi-hat is not that much different to hitting traditional electronic kit rubber cymbals, but the feel is certainly a lot better than the rubber cymbals or the traditional foam type cymbal pads on a real cymbal. You will get a variance in the thunk, depending on the cymbal size, a muted 22" ride will certainly thunk differently to a 14" muted crash. These mutes also leave 2 sections of bow and edge open as well as the bell, so you can still hit the real parts of a cymbal instead of the mute if you wish. That way you get the feel of stick on metal but the the mute across the cymbal and round the edge will still mute considerably as the cymbal cannot vibrate to create the full sound. So louder than striking the rubber section but still at acceptable practice levels. The shame is that they only do these mutes in the 14", 20" and 22", although they will stretch to fitting an inch bigger on each (15", 21" and 23"), as it would be even better to be able to use them on 16", 18" and some small splash cymbals as well. I will be moving on to some higher end professionally built electronic cymbals very soon, if a pending road test shows them to be any better than my improvised cymbals, but using these Evans SoundOff mutes to create my own budget electronic cymbals has been really effective and I cannot rate the mutes highly enough for this slightly untraditional purpose.

These are much more realistic than silent stroke heads. Just don’t put one on top of a silent stroke as it won’t stay on!

Works well really pleased

My kids and I started drum lessons about a month ago, so I needed something that would allow us to practice without annoying neighbours and wife. The Evans SoundOff mutes certainly fit the bill. I purchased the bass mute having already purchased the Evans SoundOff snare, tom-tom and hi-hat mutes. The bass mute performs perfectly, reducing the volume to a level that (I'm assured) can't be heard by our neighbours, while retaining most of the feel. There is plenty of adjustment to allow the mute to be positioned correctly, and it only took me a few minutes to set it up. Quite handy if you occasionally want to remove it and play full volume. Evans claim to reduce the volume by 95%, and from my experience I wouldn't doubt it. As an additional measure I've added a duvet to the inside of the bass, this further reduces the volume to a level that is barely audible from the next room. The duvet alone wasn't very effective. The Evan's snare and tom-tom mutes are also very good at reducing volume, but even a novice like myself will notice the difference in the feel. The hi-hat mute is a different story; It certainly reduces the volume, but it sounds and feels like you are hitting a plastic cup. This may be down to the quality of my cymbals. it's only a beginners kit, and the cymbals don't sound that good even with the mute off, but my feeling is that even with better cymbals the effect would still be the same.

This is basically a flappy piece of yoga mat (not a bad DIY idea actually!). Poor rebound and not thick enough to dampen the sound of the drum the way you might expect. But: it's small, travels nicely and light. And - compared to the wood-mounted pads, you can use it directly on your drum. Rim shots are "not included" in the muffling features. I practise my caixa emcima (Brazilian samba snare) with this and it works well enough. With a bit more thickness, density and weight I think the functionality could much improve.

Definitely reduces the volume by at least half. It can't do much for taking the boom out of the bass drum, but some more padding helps with that a bit. Overall, it is enabling me to practise on lockdown without driving my house mates crazy. Currently using it with a Roland kick trigger, so I don't get as much kick drum spill in the overheads and snare mic. Works well for this. Tonally speaking, if you tune the bass drum up a bit with this mute on, you can get a really punchy sort of classic sounding kick. Reduces the subs and highs so you get a lot of chest punch vibe. Into it. But not very quiet haha

Great product and price just unfortunately I had to send it back as it was the wrong size for the drum it was intended for. Had it been the right size (my error) it would have been perfect and such a reasonable price too! Definitely recommend

Not as quiet as mesh heads and suffer from the lack of bounce - just the opposite to mesh - but otherwise the best noise reducing purchase I have made and 'in theory' will help with technique ands developing strength - I can certainly feel the additional effort needed in wrists/fingers

So, this is my first official product review on amazon... I think this thing is awesome. we live in a 2 br apt. This works as advertised. Reduces the loudness/feeling of the "thump" from the bass drum pretty significantly without compromising the "sound" of the thump. Don't get me wrong, the bass drum is still felt and heard and is still pretty loud... just at a fairly reduced level. If i were sitting in the living room, the drumset is in an adjacent bedroom. When played, its felt and heard, but I can still watch tv... turned up mind you... to my ears, the sound coming from the bass drum still sounds, well, like a bass drum... waaayyyy better sound reproduction than any drum mute for the snare, toms, and especially the cymbals when practiced/played together. As for longevity... my 9 yr old is the one that uses it on her Premier drumset (which is super awesome and I'll eventually review that set bought from here). Now she obviously does not have have a lead foot, so I'm pretty sure this will stand up for a long time. Now when I play her set, I consciously try not to smash the bass drum pedal... if a heavy footed person were to use this, I can see this product not lasting that long... for my daughter, it works great. I'm sure the neighbors appreciate her using it than her not using one. As for the striking of the pad with the beater feeling... you definitely know your hitting something other than the drum head. Doesn't bother me... doesn't bother my daughter. .. we don't really notice at all... she could still play fairly fast with a single pedal... can she play faster without the pad? Possibly... haven't realll tried to test that out... shes not playing death metal or anything like that, so not a huge issue here, anyways. will it bother some... I'm sure there are purist who will not like the feel of it... it all comes down to which of the lesser of the 2 evils one can live with. We think it's an easy trade off... Installation is easy and straight forward. Unpacking, installing, to playing took probably at the most 5 min... adjusting it to absolute perfect placement took maybe another couple minutes... simple and easy. .. how can you not like that... If this thing broke down, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it again if I still lived in an apt. So again, reduces overall sound without compromising the actual "sound". My daughter can still easily be felt /heard laying down the backbeat with my other daughter playing along with her bass... which means the bass guitar amp volume can be turned down as well. There are other bass drum mutes that work equally well if not better... however, my daughter's bass drum is only 16" in diameter... this product is the only player in town... unless one modifies a different drum mute for a 16 " tom and modifies it to for a 16" bass drum. I love this thing... originally my daughter was using a roland electronic drumset with mesh heads at my apt and an acoustic set at her mom's. Obvioulsy the roland was waaaaaayyyyyy quieter. As much as i loved the electronic kit, When she started telling her music teacher that she preferred the electronic set "feel", I said enough of that and bought the Premier APK microbop set to keep her on the "acoustic" path. And this product at least helps to try to quiet it down... So buy it if you have a light foot for your or for the kids... if you're heavy footed... this may not last... for us, it works great... YMMV... have a great day...

Fa il mestiere per cui è stata realizzata, e lo fa anche molto bene

Cumple su función, estoy satisfecho.

Schön, dass ich hier dieses Pad auch einzeln bekam, nicht nur als Set. Habe lange gesucht! Für den Preis absolut empfehlenswert. Gleiches Material wie das sehr teure Pad-Set, dass ich schon einmal für meinen Sohn kaufte. Mit diesen Pads bekommt man absolut keine Probleme mit den Nachbarn, trotzdem hört man die Trommeln gut und tut noch etwas Gutes für seine Ohren. Das einzelne Pad jetzt habe ich aber für unser Schulorchester gekauft, damit die Snare nicht so laut ist und scheppert.

Das Teil ist zwar relativ teuer, sind aber nun doch froh über die Anschaffung. Es kann absolut fest und stabil befestigt werden und dämpft mega ab!!! Absolute Kaufempfehlung!!!