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[@ronaldmalcolm5609]

The struggle is real. Mine is a bit different, though. I, too, live in an apartment, one with concrete floors and ceilings. I don't drum very often yet, but I play my electric guitars. I get complaints about that--even though I play them dry into my interface which goes straight into Cakewalk on my laptop --while I'm wearing headphones! Apparently, when my neighbor is walking by, she can sometimes hear me strumming on a strat or semi-hollow guitar. The reason I bring this up is because I don't think it's the actual noise we make, but rather our playing/practice reminds some people that we are being creative, putting in effort and taking risks while they are not and they don't like it.

[@demonicsweaters]

Yeah, that's basically insanity level if they're complaining about strumming an un-amplified electric guitar. Our neighbor was pretty nuts for a while, he once complained about the sound of us chopping vegetables when we cook (not kidding).

[@ronaldmalcolm5609]

@@demonicsweaters Hey, carrots can be quite crunchy. Just ask anyone from House Hunters when they have relatives over to the new house at the end!😃

[@KeikoFXDesigns]

You hit it right on the nail X100%#FACTS!

[@BillMoorehouse]

Wow that is totally ridiculous

[@Allan-hw2tu]

I have the same problems (electronic battery), but I had never interpreted the complaints as you have just described and there is certainly a large part of reality, thank you for this comment, that passion drives us for life❤️‍🔥 🎶❤️‍🔥🙂

[@millerjimd]

I use an interlocking gym workout mat with a rug on top. Also added a noise eater for my kick, and I have the Roland Noise Eater hi-hat stand. Works great for my 3rd floor Manhattan apartment. No complaints yet.

[@demonicsweaters]

awesome!

[@jeremymiles8600]

awesome. I have some of those pads and was wondering if they would work

[@BillMoorehouse]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing this.

[@NATAGUILARMUSIC]

Hello! Any updates? Still no noise complaints?

[@Antbeat_drums]

Well i have put a workout mat a 3cm ones alone just without rugs or anything and still sounds to the neighbors below me, any updates you did after that?

[@morandavid1471]

I love the dollar store-sourced solution! You common sensed your way through alternatives and I really enjoyed taking the tour through your process. Appreciate your time. Thank you!

[@demonicsweaters]

Glad to help! Thanks for watching!

[@michaelevans9320]

The fact that this video is so recent, helps with it's credibility.

[@mandyb8144]

I have 2-layers of interlocking foam tiles & a small carpet underneath my Roland TD-17 & I've had complaints, a bylaw warning, & a bylaw fine from the noise. Gotta love stratas! Once I get a copy of the complaints, I will definitely incorporate some of your tips. As well as getting a mesh kick drum, instead of the rubber one it came with

[@fingereze7202]

Hey! Thanks for showing us (in such detail as well!) new methods to dampen our drum vibrations. I guess the best way, if you live in apartment anyways would be to make sure you're on the ground floor. But outside of that, even living in a house with wife, room-mates, sister, etc. these are great tips as the noise and vibrations are still an annoyance in that situation. I'm going to try to score some corkboard and try to emulate what you've done here. Thanks again!

[@MarsVee123]

Bro thanks for helping with a solution to reduce the noise on my fiancé drum kit. She’s gonna be very happy

[@lizzieb8039]

You have no idea how helpful this is ! Thank you so much for sharing !

[@thomassullivan6244]

Draping a blanket over the bass drum head can help dampen the sound from beater as well. That seems to be the the loudest sound I get from my kit (Simmons SD600).

[@alexwalker67]

Hey Justin, I've been following you since your Alesis Nitro vids as I'd just bought one at the beginning of 2020 and one of the first videos I saw was your OG noise eater tutorial. Nice update, it's appreciated. Happy Holidays.

[@demonicsweaters]

Very cool! Thank you!

[@matthewJ142]

The board you made is amazing. I probably would have done the same thing

[@Forever-yc3tp]

nice video, I have just a folded bath towel under my bass pedal and it does dampen it a fair bit, most likely not as much as the tennis ball beaters and absorption pads though.

[@andrelin0913]

We put one layer of jigsaw foam mat underneath the drum set, then another piece right under the kick drum, along with a door mat on top of that piece. I guess three layers of protection did reduce the noise from the kick drum

[@aaronrogalsky4167]

I purchased these from Home Depot. Was $20 and allowed me to do 4x6. Works very well!! Also, you can screw the teeth on bass pedals into it and they don't slide around. It's fool proof, and very affordable.

[@andrelin0913]

@@aaronrogalsky4167 yeah I think the gym foam mat work pretty well for us, we did not hear any complains from our downstairs neighbors ever since, even though it is quite loud in the room. My wife play drum, better just bother me rather than our neighbors

[@mandyb8144]

I have 2-layers of interlocking foam tiles & a small carpet underneath my Roland TD-17 & I've had complaints, a bylaw warning, & a bylaw fine from the noise. Gotta love stratas! Once I get a copy of the complaints, I will definitely incorporate some of your tips. As well as getting a mesh kick drum, instead of the rubber one it came with

[@BigWill2k]

Would like to see a video of you making one!

[@gidybosstv2824]

great content bro many thanks I'll try this out on my kit

[@scottyg5403]

So I'm using The pedal that came with the Alesis nitro kit. Sounds like the second option may be the best 1 to use.Thanks

[@TrippyVision220]

Awesome work. Thank you!

[@Mr.Monster1313]

Im still screwed lol i live in a middle apartment..3 floor building..people on top of me and the bottom..😂i just stopped playing..sad..i need to do something..makes me sad i cant play.

[@demonicsweaters]

Try these methods. People are allowed to make a reasonable amount of noise during daylight hours. Maybe ask them when they are at work and try to work out days and times you can play.

[@glen871]

Using something like a Roland KT-10 kick trigger would also significantly cut down on the vibration though they are expensive.

[@reverendobrown75]

thank you for your suggestion but in my opinion you can't use proper pedal technique with this kind of device, because the physics of the whole movement and pedal control are totally different.

[@jammypockets606]

​@@reverendobrown75I was thinking that too, but apparently td10's have adjustable springs and counter weights, so they might not be too bad for realism.

[@DAnthony14]

@@reverendobrown75true but it’s better than getting kicked out of your apartment lol I bought one for when I’m in hotels etc. works perfect

[@lucym8562]

@@reverendobrown75 I understand, but "proper pedal technique" maybe it's not important for all. Some people just want to play electronic drums and don't care about the feel of an acoustic kit. In these cases proper pedal technique can be achieved with that type of pedal too, if you consider it proper for your needs and your liking.

[@lefthandcrust]

well, the reason im researching how to cancel out vibrations a bit better is not because of neighbors complaining, its because no matter how much I adjust the XtlkCancel setting on my ekit, I still get pads getting triggered by the vibration of the other pads/kick

[@demonicsweaters]

try raising the threshold

[@lefthandcrust]

@demonicsweaters yeah! According to the users manual on my ekit you have to also get the threshold at a sweet spot aswell! I recently switched around the kit I made it wider for my tall @$$ and so far ive seen an improvement on my playing and no triggers at all! Those pads are super tiny

[@cre8tivity06]

I live in a condo and my son and I both play the drums. If he’s playing and I go down to the basement just under where the drums are it sounds like he is stomping on the floor with all his might. I can only imagine what that would sound like if I had neighbors under me but thankfully I don’t. I still want to take some of the advice you all have shared to cut down on the noise. Are you all using your drum kits connected to a drum amp or using them with headphones only. We do both so it’s loud either way lol.

[@DFender4000]

Thanks!

[@wasdaslan68419]

very helpful video thanks!

[@noahwillson9895]

Those are some really great ideas, thank you! I remember checking out some of your e-drum videos a few years ago and I think you have Alesis then? I might be wrong, but I don't think it was Simmons. I have a Roland TD-1 in an apartment. It just has a Bass pedal. I and want to upgrade to a real pedal, especially so I can do more double kick work, and am looking at a cheap Yamaha kick tower (KP65). Sorry if this seems irrelevant to the video, but have you had any experience mixing your kits? Are lower-end kick towers interchangeable? Just curious if you've had any experiencing mixing manufacturers.

[@demonicsweaters]

Most kick drum triggers are the same: a simple single zone piezo.

[@TheDude10k]

Try 2 horse stall mats underneath the same setup

[@kewmusician]

This video kicks @$$!!!!! Thank you 🙏

[@demonicsweaters]

You’re welcome

[@marcu_spires]

Pricelesss video 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@AP530]

I am curious as to why you used styrafoam letters on corkboard as opposed to using tennis balls?? Arent the tennis balls better at keeping the board/pedal from sliding? Thanks

[@demonicsweaters]

Because that's what they had, haha.

[@markahearne3280]

Looking at a few of your vids. I'm thinking about attempting a bass drum noise eater maybe with the cork bulletin board and tennis balls instead of foam letters

[@demonicsweaters]

That should work well!

[@iyangu1]

Thanks

[@crnkmnky]

_Come on! Come on!_ _Feel it! Feel it!_ *Feel the vibration!* 📳

[@drumm3r_b0y27]

Tennis balls just be the method

[@saabman]

Where is the example of how they sound

[@lennyghoul]

Move to a ground floor? 🙃

[@matthewJ142]

It sound like if you cut out a carpet or some flat foam and just placed it underneath it would solve the problem.

[@AFuriousCrab]

I use squash balls cut in half. They work great and being rubber theyre also non slip.

[@elvancor]

Bought a bulletin board from the dollar store. Turned out to be the thinnest slice of cork glued to cardboard. Fml.

[@Mr.Monster1313]

So you got ride of the nitro mesh kit huh ?

[@demonicsweaters]

My friend has it now

[@pdxmetal]

How well does the cork and rubber squares work as opposed to washing machine dampers or the NE-1's?

[@demonicsweaters]

I think the best ones I've tried seem to be these amzn.to/3EAz4AB. I like them also because you can put them under the floor tom legs and snare stand. They work great!

[@pdxmetal]

@@demonicsweaters Expensive for only 4. I'd have to order 4 packs to cover everything.

[@roadrnnr2008]

what was the company name of the silent strike beaters? Not the gibralter ones the others

[@demonicsweaters]

Kat Percussion Silent Strike beaters. They no longer have them on Amazon, but they have the Gibraltar ones amzn.to/3VGBaWw

[@tzimmermann]

My neighbor yells all day long, plays sh** music too loud, gets drunk in the middle of the night and yells even harder. It's been going on for years, I just can't get sleep without putting on earphones, and it's distracting me when I work during the day. I tried communicating a few times, she does not give a damn and acts defiantly. I live in France, the police won't do their freaking job, so it's basically hopeless. I bought an e-drum set a year ago, put it on a mat, I play only during the day, and of course she's been complaining regularly. Yesterday I installed a couple agglomerated rubber slabs (the kind we put under the washing machine) under the set, with double thickness under the bass drum pedal, I'll see what happens then. I measured the vibrations, came to the conclusion that the level was reasonable, I did my part, now she can basically eat sh** in hell.

[@demonicsweaters]

ug, I feel terrible for you. That is such a hard situation. I had to basically tell my downstairs neighbor to go ahead and complain, call the cops, do whatever he wants to do, because I'm not breaking any laws or disturbing anyone. The landlord sided with me. They came, heard the sound I was actually making and basically laughed that the guy was even complaining. Since then a violin and tuba player have both moved into the building, and they practice way later than I do, haha. I love it.

[@tzimmermann]

@@demonicsweaters Haha if I believed in karma, that's what it would be! It's nice you had the landlord on your side. I came upon your channel while researching viable ways to mitigate my vibration problem, but I'm gonna stay for the awesome music, my friend!

[@TheMTNDewd]

Did it work?

[@tzimmermann]

@@TheMTNDewd Apparently, it does the job!

[@dl.puncea]

Took some info from this but common... Justifying that the wood plank would increase the sound (which it might) and propose a 100$+ sollution is hilarious. Just use playground rubber pads?

[@kpdtox]

great hacks