Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hello all,
I have had my kit for about 5 months now. I bought it to replace my
aging acoustic set and to allow me the ability to practice in my
apartment, which is impossible with an acoustic. Although I am lucky
enough to not have a downstairs neighbor becaue it is a townhouse
apartment my practice area is in an upstairs bedroom. My wife is
experiencing difficulty watching her favorite TV programs due to the
amount of noise the kick produces. Essentially, the bottom floor
becomes a huge rattling kick drum. Also, The actual unit itself hums
and rattles whenever I strike it. I don't know how much can be done
to reduce the transfer of the pedal hit through the floor because of
the way the unit is solid metal that sit directly on the floor. I am
more bothered by the loud vibration of the kick tower itself. I am
going to try putting some Dynamat sound deadening material on it to
reduce the vibrations. I think it will work, anyone tried it before?
It is the stuff they sell at car stereo shops to put in the trunks of
cars to reduce the vibrations from big rap-music-producing subwoofers.
You think the wife has a problem now justr wait till I stick a piece
of plywood on the bed!(not really an option)

Thanks,
Carson




--- In DTXpress@egroups.com, pdk <pdk@t...> wrote:
> 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
>
> Hot Java, Cool Tunes: Visit Café Pierre
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/4024/
>
> > From: "Mr. Lauri Kero" <luikero@f...>
> > 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@f...>
> >
> > 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.