Lady complains abt drumming neighbour

[vx02]

i dun tink tt only applys to drummers.. this is how the world works..

yeah quite true actually. heh. so yeh.

 

[ixora05]

I don't think noise comes only from musicians but musicians somehow always get slammed the worst. I live around 6th Avenue, near some Dynasty Gardens condo and there's a lady who always sings karaoke in cantonese, I think, and she sings very loudly and stuff. whether in tune I cannot judge, hoho. but she gets away with it. whereas I want to have a drumset but my next door neighbours are making noise about it even before I bring the kit home.

 

[mejonz]

i stay in a hdb flat...my experience wif my neighbour was that i played..he came up knock on my door... he was very friendly at first and so i was gladly willing to work something out with him... so the deal was that weekdays was in the afternn was fine with him..but weekend just give him a knock to check if he's home before i play..

the poly holidays came and i didn't really go out much... so i spent many weekday afternoons practising my drums... 1 of the weekday afternoon he came up to knock on my door when i was playing the drums..and ranted at me before going back down...

the next day HDB investigators came knocking at my door saying that some1 complained abt the drumming...

well...i didn't break my promise of playing during the weekends...but shit like this still happens...

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

this really sux man... hey, 1 way is to be famous... be darn famous... that ought to shut the pieholes of these kl neighbours

 

[pooo]

That may happen, but for many here, chances are that it won't. So, the issue of volume control remains. I don't know about others, but i use a cheap assed method of putting rags on the snare/toms/cymbals etc to minimize noise if someone thinks it's too noisy.

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

closing ur windows and doors helps a lot too...

 

[ixora05]

are muffle heads a good idea? or are they like a hassle to change and remove? cos I'm a total klutz. don't think changing heads all the time is gonna be good for me or the kit.

 

[pooo]

Doesn't sweelee sell those rubber covers(i think, pardon the unfamiliarity) that you can attach to cymbals and toms/snare etc?

I think those seem to be a better solution, though costly...

 

[bryanlim]

i hate neighbours like this!! even we try our best to compromise and explain, they still insisit in their way. sighx

 

[vx02]

yeah sabian sells the quiet tones rubber pads. but the relative tuning when you put the practice pads are quite undesirable la. and the cymbal mutes make your cymbals sound like a tincan. but if you still wanna buy, heres a tip: when i bought them i realised the price was wayyy high. at least as compared to the website. you can like save at least 50 bucks by asking them to give you website prices.

 

[Vio]

save up the money to get a digital kit! 8)


*yeah right easier said than done*

 

[Scream_ed]

I can emphatise with drummers facing this problem, though I'm not a drummer myself. I find that the pad on the drum set thing quite useful (theoritically). Cos besides the sound, you need to practise the physical movements around the various parts of the drums, duncha?

Have to think about the neighbours also though. If the family has a baby at home, it's quite hard to get the baby sleeping with the drums pounding away...

The space constraints won't go away,so the next best thing is to think of ways to get around the limitations. Hey, maybe your methods might be so creative you get featured on the papers for innovative ideas...ahahahaha :lol:

 

[andreww]

yamaha does sell e sound off pads? its like.. huge "mousepads" put on top of e toms and play, tried e display set at yamha.. its good i guess

 

[qwerty]

I've asked about those pads 2 weeks ago. seems like they don't have stock and it would take 6MONTHS to get them. i was shocked. and they are quite expensive. (the ones that they are selling anyway.) there are other ways to mute the drums la, maybe only put the skins on one side and mute it with cloth as well. that effectively kills off all resonance and can be quite soft, but of course its not as shiok, but at least you'll get to play!

I recently bought a set of the muting pads as well. there's even one for the bass drum. I'm studying in KL and i got these

http://www.jsmusic.com.my/website/Product_vicfirth_acce.php

the cymbal and drum mutes. with those i think i should be fine. i haven't tried as my drum set is not up yet in my apartment but i think those plus a carpet under the drums and it should be ok for the neighbours la

 

[bryanlim]

any WORST senerio that a drummer can face ?

 

[17wil]

i dare say that , although not a drummer, my neighbour is a overseas businessman.....buys the flat oppostie to store junk. great for drumming which i wanna learn, but thing is, my parents dun like! :lol:

 

[littleblackgems]

any idea if HDB did reply in the papers?

my brother plays the drums too and we got a kit not long ago. we live in a HDB flat and were also afraid neighbours might complain but we stay on a low level and a corner unit at that.

no one has complained since. but not as if my brother whacks the kit too hard either.

but yeah, closing the doors and windows do help a lot. maybe add curtains and carpets too?

 

[ixora05]

-referral warning- go talk to Nigel at DRMP in Excelsior. He's got the muting pads you guys are talking about and I tried them in his shop. It really does mute quite effectively, even on the cymbals. I see what was meant by the tin-can reference though. lol. but go ask Nigel about it if you guys are facing the muffling problem (which drummer doesn't, lol.)

 

[Yoshiki]

Hey guys, why don't we all just screw the 'pads' idea and find a more innovative way to minimise the noise? I myself live in the 3rd storey and I do have neighbours upstairs pounding on their floor while I play the drums. (He's very 'guai lan' btw...)Here's what I do:

- Stuff crushed newspapers into your toms and snare, as much as required
- Stuff blankets into your bass drum
- After you have stuff the blankets, stick a magazine onto the area where your pedal will hit
- Place your drumset on thick carpets, for me I used old unwanted blankets or whatever
- Shut your window and make sure your room has those big, wooden closets coz they're good at absorbing sound

And thats it. Other than the 'guai lan' neighbour on the 4th storey, my family and the neighbour downstairs didn't complain at all and I still get to practice my X Japan and Iron Maiden songs. And of course, I stop playing once the clock strikes 10. Hope this helps and don't let 'guai lan' neighbours stop you from trying to be the best in the world!

\m/

 

[TequilaSunrise]

I've had my drum set in march, and I've been playing almost everyday in the afternoons, without much complains

Granted, I've got a Pearl rhythm traveller, so the small shell doesn't make as much noise as the larger shell ones, but still can hear from downstairs. lol. However, my neighbours don't seem to mind, although the ah ma upstairs always say she's hearing 'knocks on the walls and floors'. And I think I know why

Minimal dampening, just two 3cm long tape on each drum skin, ducktape the part where the pedal hits the bass drum skin. Nothing else. =D