Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

This issue has come up in this group and the www.vdrums.com site many times
and there are alot of "physical solutions" that have been offered up to
solve or semi-solve this problem. You can use the search engine. But......

I got my first acoustic set when I was ten years old in Germany and learned
on the old hard rock stuff (ie. Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep,
etc.) and I played very loud and we lived in an apt. building with 24
families (three stairways with 8 families each). When we moved back
stateside we lived in temporary military housing in a duplex housing project
for six months and then moved to a single family home with lots of old farts
in the neighborhood that didn't like lots of noise. The one piece of advice
that I got very early on was "Drums are loud, annoying and most people can't
stand them....but close friends and family will tolerate them." The key was
to make friends, good friends of your neighbors BEFORE you play for the
first time, do free stuff for them, volunteer to help them. I cut many yards
of grass, carried out trash and help do chores for many neighbors before I
played for the first time and I have never had a problem. I selected the
"social solution" as oppose to the "physical solution" and it has always
worked for me. Can my neighbors hear me play?....absolutely....do they say
anything?..NOPE, (because I can stop doing nice things for them and people
can be so greedy and getting free help) , and now that I am an OldGuy, it
still works. I understand this may not work in all situations, but it has
work for me for 46 years. Good Luck. 



OldGuyDrummer

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Casler [SMTP:bioforce.inc@...]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:02 PM
> To:	DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Subject:	[DTXpress] The neighbours complain about the noises above...
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi guys!
> > Basically I want to inquire if any of you have recommendations on how
> > to dampen the noise without affecting the performance of the kick
> > tower. At the moment I use a standard felt head beater on the bass
> > pedal. What are my alternatives? Would a rubber beater help? My
> > bedroom floor has a old stle wicker/ropey carpet and I have put a
> > carpet tile under the tower also.
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated,
> > Cheers,
> > Brian (london)
> 
> 
> ***Buy an old used mattress and place a 3/4" sheet of plywood on top of
> it.
> Then assemble your DTXpress on top of it.
> 
> Problem solved.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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