Customer Reviews

Drumshhh Small Black Drum Pads for Rock Band

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The pads are felt covered and do reduce the clickety-clack of the Rock Band Drums.
Do they make them whisper quiet? No.
Do they reduce the noise? Yes.

Things they also do:
Reduce the 'bounce' of the stick off the pad and make it easier to hit bring them back down for repeat notes.
They are the color of the pads and make them stand out more than the little color ring does.
The increase the size (height) of the pad so it is less lickely to hit the rim of the pads with the stick if you contact the pad at an angle.

No, I have not had to hit the drums any harder to ger them to work, either. While they are rubberized, it is a harder rubber similar to a mousepad. They are self adhesive backed and the adhesive is firm enough to hold but weak enough to remove if you should ever want to send the drum kit back under warranty.

The pads work very well. They don't silence the drum pads but there is a very noticeable difference with them on. The one thing I was worried about was the gameplay being affected but the drum set responded normally. I think I actually played better because I could hear more of the song!!

Now the only question of course is how long will they last. They seem well made but they are made of felt so how much pounding can they take we'll have to see. The adhesive seems to hold on well but it wasn't difficult to take them off once. I don't think you'll be able to remove them too many times and have them stick but at least you know you aren't attaching them permanently.

So if you've been looking for a way to quiet those drums, this is a good product. I could see a better solution come along but right now these get the job done.

Very easy to install, quiets the drum pad although not completely eliminating the sound, looks awesome with the color ring left on the outside and the black in the center, get these AS SOON as possible to protect your drum set...

After applying the drum pads, I could hear the drums on TV a little better, but there was still a fair amount of noise coming from the drums themselves. My wife, who loves /Rock Band/ but not the clickety-clack of the fake drums, didn't think the Drumshhh pads helped at all.

Overall, you get what you pay for. If you want something that'll completely silence the drums so you can play without waking a baby down the hall, you'll need a to pony up a lot more than fifteen bucks. If you want something that will reduce the annoying clickety-clack to a dull thump, this works fine.

The Drumshhh drums pads are great! For anyone trying to play guitar or bass while your drummer is wailing away on the drums, these pads are a must. They cut down the noise significantly and the bold colors are easy to see even when you are drumming. They install in seconds and mine have lasted through weeks of serious Rock Band sessions.

I bought the full size Drumshhh pads for two reasons - to help decrease the noise of my Rock Band drum kit and to protect the pads on the kit. While these pads did decrease the noise quite a bit, I found some major drawbacks to their usage.

I have an EL set of drums, which are known to be less sensitive than the other Rock Band drum models. These pads, unfortunately, decrease the sensitivity even further, causing for more dropped notes and having to hit the pads harder (a potentially damaging situation).

I recently attempted to remove the Drumshhh pads from my set, and they made a complete mess of my drum kit. I now have felt and adhesive all over my drum pads. The instructions that come with the Drumshhh pads do indeed say that they can be removed (and I tried per their instructions), but fully removed? No such luck. I'm now left trying to figure out how to remove the remaining felt and adhesive without doing damage to my drum kit and voiding the warranty.

They should advertise this product not as something to silent the tapping of the drums, but rather just the protection of the drums for Rock Band. When I first bought Rock Band, I didn't realize that that hitting the drums would somewhat dent the drums (very tiny, but I'm nit-picky, especially with new things). I bought these colorful circles to protect the drums from the dents-- and guess what! They did, and they do at the moment,wonderfully. What they didn't do is remove the sound at ALL. So the stars I rated was for their advertisement--to quiet the tapping of the drums--so I rated it lowly for that. I only recommend these pads for the protection of the drums. Good Luck! =)

While they did reduce noise, they caused a good majority of the drum hits to not register. At first I thought it was me, but I took them off and it was DEFINITELY the pads. Also, when I removed them, they left a residue that was really tough to get off. I do not recommend these.

Ok, first things first: NO, these pads aren't gonna make your RockBand drums silent. (Honestly, I don't think it's possible to have something you're whacking with sticks *be* silent) I'd say they knocked the "thwack, clack" down ~60% or so. A noticeable amount that really lets ya hear the music better, which I think makes me a better drummer.

I was going to make my own pads using instructions that are all over the internet with self-adhesive foam and felt layers and a rotary cutter. Bought the supplies, but never got around to it because it was going to be such a PITA. These are a great alternative. The home-made option would have been twice as thick as these pads, which I feared would cause a loss in sensitivity. The Drumshhhh pads have much thinner, denser foam than I could find in the craft stores - and I imagine the adhesive is better; I was able to reposition them easily before applying full pressure to attach the pads.

The pads do change the way the drums feel, but I can't find a downside to it. They don't bounce back as much as without the pads, but I found that a little easier to play tight rhythm sections. It will take a little getting used to the change in my drums - they feel the tiniest bit `mushy' for lack of a better way to describe it - but the protection for my drums and the reduction in 'thwack' is worth it.

Only complaint is that I wish Amazon carried the other styles of Drumshhh pads - the solid color drums look a little cartoon-y. But since I wanted full pad coverage, these were the only real option. The company makes a full-coverage black pad set as well as a quadrant-style version that is really sweet looking. I am planning on taking a black permanent marker to my pads though, so they won't be cartoon-y for long!

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Installation was quite easy. One need only peel off the back and try not to act like a spaz when applying them. The fit is very tight, almost too tight for the red and green drums which resulted in a very small bit of wrinklage at the edges, although this didn't affect anything (and is practically impossible to see). The instructions state that the things can be removed without damaging your drum heads later on, but strongly hints that the actual Drumshhh pads probably won't survive the process. It's not a permanent mod, but it is a one-shot deal.

As for how they work... the difference can be summed up thusly: stock Rock Band drums make a capital-T Thwack when you hit them. After installing the Drumshhh I would classify the sound as a small-t thwock. This might not sound like much, but it makes a big difference. Overall volume is probably half of what it was, but more importantly the character of the sound is changed quite drastically to a lower-pitched effect that is much less irritating overall. You'll have a much easier time hearing the game's soundtrack over your own hits with these things in place.

Stick rebound is affected slightly as well. The felt obviously dampens a bit of the "springiness" of the stock drum heads, but the EVA foam underneath the felt itself restores much of that rebound, so the net result is pretty much a toss-up. I found that I needed to hit the drum heads very slightly harder than before, but this was an improvement to my playing, since I was no longer holding back my hits. If you like to play a bit on the heavier side then these are a huge improvement.