Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Lauri,

Sounds like a good way to lay down bed tracks.

Seriously, your argument makes sense. Essentially the floor and room below
become the world's biggest bass drum.

I play in the basement on concrete.

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pete

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> From: "Mr. Lauri Kero" <luikero@...>
> Reply-To: DTXpress@onelist.com
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:08:13 +0200
> To: DTXpress@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [DTXpress] Covering the kick pad
> 
> From: "Mr. Lauri Kero" <luikero@...>
> 
> Terve Jarmo! :)
> 
> At 12:58 14.2.2000 -0500, pdk wrote:
>> Don't sue me if I'm wrong, but Finland seems about as cold as Canada, and a
>> properly insulated wall should stop the sound adequately, depending of
>> course on how hard you pound the pads. Are you Charlie Watts or Keith Moon?
> 
> My opinion is that the biggest problem is the kick, and not so much the
> decibels it makes but that the vibration from kicking goes into the floor,
> which is somebody's ceiling and that somebody gets very annoeyd if
> your time is not perfect :)
> 
> Maybe this sounds silly, but I'm actually planning to get a big enough
> board of
> plywood, which I can put on my bed and lay the kit on that, thus hopefully
> minimizing if not eliminating the noise carried downstairs.