just build a platform that's twice the thickness with twice the amount of insulation brother

Trussing mass loaded vinyl (MLV) around the kit to eliminate air born transmission and test again. Good stuff. Thank you for the information.

Good evening, I encountered the same issue when I was living in appartement some years ago. To solve this, I had built the same kind of platform with 18mm wood medium, but instead foam below the wood platform I use various bicycle inner tubes not too much inflated ... The result was really great, no more vibration transiting to the concrete, so no more noise transmitted to any orher neighbour. I was playing drums on an air cushion ... So to sumarize, from the floor to the drum itself: 1/ rubber tiles from any sport shop (Decathlon, ...) as shown in the video, 2/ 4 to 8 bicycle inner tubes inflated (no too much, no too low) 3/ wood platform (does not have to be in contact with walls or floor when loaded with the drum and the drummer) 4/ a nice carpet for confort and beautiful aspect Following this way to do, you will be totally isolated from the floor and vibrations will not be anymore transmitted to it. Best regards

Thanks for the video, very informative and helpful. Just one question: I saw in another vid that a specific grade sylomer is needed depending of the weight to have the correct results. According to that, more weight or less weight won't work as desired. Did you check that to see if there are noticeable difference and/or better results?

Snare sounds fabulous.

Very well made and informative video. But you forgot one very important thing. I was waiting for the actual sound of the you drumming. Because just from the footage it looks like you are a really good drummer😉… And I was hoping for a little piece of your music. Well done, brother!!!

fantastic video, i have one advice maybe, sylomer is very precise material, you need to calculate how much of specific sylomer density u need in relation with weight u putting on platform, so if u put too much of sylomer its not gonna work, and if u put too little its also not gonna work

Nice job! This is more of a "finish and assemble" build (done well), but I'll bet you have the skill set to someday build a shell...that would be an actual "from start to finish" build.

Did you use only 4 of the 10x10cm Sylomer SR11 pads? If so, this was not enough as the max load per 10x10x2.5cm pad is 11kg. So that means the total max for 4 pads was only 44kg.

From experience -- whether or not these will work depends on the situation. If your downstairs neighbors say that it "sounds like there's a subwoofer upstairs", then these will most likely work very effectively. If however they can hear everything including the pitter patter of the cymbals, isolating the floor won't solve the whole issue.

Awesome test. Thanks!

Anyone know where to get sylomer in the US?

Physical Education🤘🏼the cymbal sounds great

The uneven part of most snares is the snare bridge on the snare reso side. I almost sanded my snare before realizing that it was made that way.

It sounded really cool when it was drilled and stacked!! Great tip, because I’ve got a shitty sounding 16 inch crash that I want to do something with. 👍🏻👍🏻

Great job, man! The snare is beautiful and sounds great. I’ve been thinking about building a snare for several years now. Your video has inspired me to actually do it. Thanks again!

Rubber bass drums are very loud considering they are supposed to be. A more effective option would be to change the beater or use a different head.

Bit late to the party, and I'm unsure if you ran a follow-up test, but i live in an old house made of masonry and timber, so the kick pedal travels through the floor and UP through the walls into the rooms ABOVE where I play - i live on the bottom floor. I play on an Alesis Nitro Max, and the pedal is a felt head on a rubber drum head, so it's PRETTY dense when it hits. I've started building a platform similar to this, but the inner workings have been dampened with foam and silicone bushings between things like fasteners and joints. I'll attempt to do something similar in an attempt to discover more adequate solutions to killing the sound of your platform.

Good test, thanks! But can you describe how you build the platform? :)

Fascinating. I live in a flat with pretty thin walls. I play on mesh pads only. The kick and the hi-hat pedal simply create too much noise. A hi-hat works well also when played with a mesh pad. I put a chopstick in my beater and stuck a Tennis faom ball on it, then even stuck a real mesh pad on the rubber pad of the original kick- so like that, even a beater is almost noiseless. Crashes and the ride can be played wonderfully on mesh pads (the feel on the ride is amazing, when the curves are set correctly). Really happy with the setup. Mesh only! Respect your neighbors!

Thank to share this video! ❤ Fantastic job! Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹

I'm wanting to make a snare drum out of 2 plys of Brazilian Rosewood and center ply of Sitka Spruce. However, the price for just the wood alone would be a fortune. So... I guess my idea will stay in dream mode.😢

What did you stack the modified cymbal on top of for the last demo....sounded best of them all.

Maybe next time you'll spray instead of that prehistoric method. Finally turned out ok though.

I’d love to see how a sylomer riser compares to those tennis ball risers. I’ve built a tennis ball riser paired with those vibration isolation squares made for washing machines for my hammer weighted keyboard. However because my neighbor is terribly unreasonable and unpleasant, I don’t trust him to help me test if he hears something or not with them.

How did you determine the tension rod length you needed? I’m interested in doing my own build

Wowwwww! Now I have to build one. Thanks man for all that knowledge

Where did you buy the sylomer pads in Australia? - Cheers!

Very well explained mate, well done. Mind if I copy?

Sounds great

Man oh man….thank you for doing this. It was exactly the information I need. Very interesting and particularly how it’s the low frequency sounds that are the offenders! Brilliant stuff and very helpful.

Greetings! I am also concerned about this problem. I built the platform using three layers of plywood and two layers of Sylomer. The barrel is the loudest, despite the fact that it is made of Kevlar. There are two problems here - sound and vibration, which is also noticeable. Sylomer is just fighting vibration. There is an application for Android that can measure vibration. In any case, this topic is relevant and interesting for many. Make more videos, I’ll be happy to discuss and share my experience. It's a pity that you can't attach a photo here. Definitely like it!)

Gracias por subir el video..... Genial...

Nice job with the description of how to build this drum. I have a few tips if you don't mind. I painted high end cars and custom bikes for 30+ years. Try getting some DA sandpaper for sanding out the dirt nibs and imperfections. I would start with 800 and then go 1200, 1500, and finally 2000. You can go 3000 if you would like. Dry sanding with the DA is the That will make polishing a bit easier. Next, polishing with an orbital or DA (Dual Action) sander takes forever. You would be better of with a sander that spins like a grinder with no extra motion. You'll want something in the 1200-1750 RPM range. Grinders usually spin in the 3500 RPM range which will melt that finish right off, so RPMs is critical!! This will work much quicker. Always make sure the rotation of the pad is spinning "Off of the edge" and not into the edge, or you'll burn the edge and quite possible rip it from your hands and fling it across the room!! Also make sure you put you hair up so it doesn't get wound up in the polisher at 1750 RPMs. Saw that once and it was a bloody mess, and I don't mean "bloody" in the european sense of the word! LOL If you go to 2000-3000 grit when sanding, you won't need a "heavy cut" type of compound. It shouldn't have and grit to it. 3M products are the most common. Any bodyshop supply store will have all of these items in stock. You're drum looks and sounds amazing, as well as your playing!! Just built my first snare as well. It's a 6.5" Stave shell that I made from Sepele (Mahogany). I'll be making a lot ,more of them now!! Enjoy and thanks again for the video!!

What was the budget for this? How much is necessary?

A solid effort

Variety is great of course but it's not the tools, it's the person using the tools. I've recorded in studio and done live with nothing but SM57s. True pros get the job done with what they have. Take it from someone who's been on the planet for 7 decades and doing pro audio across 5 decades.

so many variables before you would even get to the mic! drums/heads/cymbals/drummer/room. condenser in front of kit gave a very workable sound - nice job!

Splendid build! It is pretty sounding. Congratulations.

Great test! thanks for posting, have you tried the AT4040 in omni? it will probably add a lot more low end

Small rooms absolutely are better to be treated well. You can improve the sound a whole lot if you hang panels above the drum kit, since most of the sound shoots up and down from the heads before spreading out. This will remove frequency cancelations and make the sound thicker, fuller and more natural. You can double the power of your panels by creating a gap between them and the walls by 5-10cm

No proper drum recording is done with one mic (nowadays). First of all, what people will get is a mono audio, big no no. Yes you could possibly get away with one mic when the recording is heard from an iphone. Not to mention that the cymbals sound all over the place because you need decent volume of kick/snare. Just do not use it other than for a sketchy drum cover video.

Great quality video, subscribed!

I like that you use metric units so most ppl in the world will understand what you were doing

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Great job dude.... epic

Excellent point to check the holes against the actual lug. I’m a professional trim carpenter and when I’m attaching cabinet handles I always do that EVERY SINGLE TIME before drilling.

Great job on getting that to look the way it does. It looks beautiful! I'm looking to do my own snare drum build and would love to use this technique. So without doing the corrective steps in the middle, first you would stain the shell, then what was the actual final step you used to polish it that worked? After you sanded you went to the polishing by hand. Sanding isn't necessary if you're not correcting dust marks and things of that nature, correct? So what I'm guessing, stain is step 1, polish with multi coats is step 2? Then drilling and mounting the hardware? Again, nice job on this drum!!!

bubbles.... use a small torch to get rid of those...[dont burn nuthin].

Honestly, I like the raw sounds more. But that's off topic. What material are the panels?