Les Ismore
Platinum Member
Securing a pillow to the bottom of your bass drum shell. Here's and easy solution to using adhesive tapes, VELCRO etc. All you'll need is some 20 ga wire, some paper clips and wire clippers.
Im using a poly filled standard sized pillow for a 20" kick, you can easily pierce the 20 ga wire thru this pillow with your hand and that's the ease of the application. The paper clips are going to act as hooks to secure the wire to the bottom two bass drum lugs. I upgraded to some plastic cable clamps just cuz I had them. You could use anything that'll slip under a lug screw.
Batter head off, carefully remove the lugs screws, slip your paper clip fashioned into a loop, cable clamps, whatever you're using under the lug screws and tighten them down.
Position your pillow in the BD, select how much of the pillow you want touching the batter head (and reso/front head if desired/able).
With pillow in position, pierce top of pillow above one of the lugs with a length of 20 ga wire (16" length piece will be enough) till its thru the pillow, wrap it around the hook under the lug screw.
Repeat on the opposite side. The span between the lugs is enough distance of wire to hold a pillow securely in place. When twisting the wire around the second lug, you only need one or two twists. Keep it simple in case you want to adjust pillows position again, it'll be easier to remove the wire, no need to put a bunch of twists in. You'll know how tight you'll need to make the wire when you're doing it.
Since the 20 ga wire pierces a poly filled pillow easily, readjusting, removing the pillow is a breeze.
Careful when working with the ends of the clipped wire, they're sharp.
Im using a poly filled standard sized pillow for a 20" kick, you can easily pierce the 20 ga wire thru this pillow with your hand and that's the ease of the application. The paper clips are going to act as hooks to secure the wire to the bottom two bass drum lugs. I upgraded to some plastic cable clamps just cuz I had them. You could use anything that'll slip under a lug screw.
Batter head off, carefully remove the lugs screws, slip your paper clip fashioned into a loop, cable clamps, whatever you're using under the lug screws and tighten them down.
Position your pillow in the BD, select how much of the pillow you want touching the batter head (and reso/front head if desired/able).
With pillow in position, pierce top of pillow above one of the lugs with a length of 20 ga wire (16" length piece will be enough) till its thru the pillow, wrap it around the hook under the lug screw.
Repeat on the opposite side. The span between the lugs is enough distance of wire to hold a pillow securely in place. When twisting the wire around the second lug, you only need one or two twists. Keep it simple in case you want to adjust pillows position again, it'll be easier to remove the wire, no need to put a bunch of twists in. You'll know how tight you'll need to make the wire when you're doing it.
Since the 20 ga wire pierces a poly filled pillow easily, readjusting, removing the pillow is a breeze.
Careful when working with the ends of the clipped wire, they're sharp.