Bass Drum Muffling Tips

Video Transcript

"I've already shown you snare and kind of tom muffling. Now, base muffling is really something that is really, you know, high prized, and just kind of really worshiped pretty much around the drummers is how you get your base drum tuned. What you've probably already noticed is that I have this sticker right here. It kind of reduces a lot of the overtones. Kind of the same thing with the snare on the e-rings, and it just gives it that really watery sound when you hit the base drum. You know, it just gives it a really watery sound and from that either you can have; some of them have metal plates inside which give it a more "Tt tt tt" you know metal kind of sounding, hard core, you know, stuff like that. And let's see, this is on Evan's e-mag too, these come with these rings already stuck to the side. I like my base drum really, you know, muffled, so you can hear that double base sound really nice. These came on this is on the side really reducing the overtones, less of a "Bwaoh" more of a "Tt tt tt." And also, inside I've got a pillow. What a pillow does is you've got all the sound waves going through, you know, it just kind of distorts that and kind of like when you have foam on the walls or stuff you know kind of muffles the sound really well and doesn't let too much sound to get out really. You just want the sound of it hitting pretty much with the base drum. OK, and you can either have your pillow pressing up against: some people like that, pressing up against the head of the drum or just inside kind of muffling the sound if you've already got enough tuning around the drum. And pretty much just whatever type you know, if you are really more jazz kind of drummer you wouldn't really need all this stuff. I'd say more of these pads because they protect against cracking in the drum. You know, a lot of heavy playing equals a lot of cracking within the base drum so these pads really protect; they are a major protector on your drums."