Hypercaffium
Active Member
Hi,
I own a PDP Spectrum Rock (22-14-12-16) which I converted to a low volume practice kit using mesh heads, low volume cymbals, DT50S/K triggers and an EAD10. Everything works good and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm about to buy a garage and I'd like to move the kit there so I can practice and possibly play with some friends. This would be a real game changer for me personally, but I'm not sure it's doable and I'm not an expert.
I must say that the main reason why I'm buying a garage is because I need a space to park my car. The garage is 3x5 meters, I didn't measure its height unfortunately. I'm not an expert, but I guess that a soundproof/acoustic treatment to the garage would somehow restrain its space and usability, especially the entrance, plus it would cost some money of course. Playing a regular acoustic kit with real heads and cymbals in there would be a disaster probably, both in terms of loudness (which luckily isn't a big problem per se) and, most of all, sound quality.
What if I use my low volume practice kit exactly like I use it at home? My EAD10 picks up the whole kit without problems, cymbals are loud and clear while drums are a little bit quiter because I mostly rely on triggers and I wanted the drums to be extremely dry, muffled and lower in volume.
What should I do?
Keep the kit as it is, use an amplifier/monitor and just raise the volume on the EAD10 if drums aren't loud enough?
Switch to regular heads that aren't too loud compared to the cymbals?
Change the whole kit to something smaller?
Revisit the whole plan and make some kind of non invasive, cheap acoustic treatment to the garage?
Thanks for your help!
I own a PDP Spectrum Rock (22-14-12-16) which I converted to a low volume practice kit using mesh heads, low volume cymbals, DT50S/K triggers and an EAD10. Everything works good and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm about to buy a garage and I'd like to move the kit there so I can practice and possibly play with some friends. This would be a real game changer for me personally, but I'm not sure it's doable and I'm not an expert.
I must say that the main reason why I'm buying a garage is because I need a space to park my car. The garage is 3x5 meters, I didn't measure its height unfortunately. I'm not an expert, but I guess that a soundproof/acoustic treatment to the garage would somehow restrain its space and usability, especially the entrance, plus it would cost some money of course. Playing a regular acoustic kit with real heads and cymbals in there would be a disaster probably, both in terms of loudness (which luckily isn't a big problem per se) and, most of all, sound quality.
What if I use my low volume practice kit exactly like I use it at home? My EAD10 picks up the whole kit without problems, cymbals are loud and clear while drums are a little bit quiter because I mostly rely on triggers and I wanted the drums to be extremely dry, muffled and lower in volume.
What should I do?
Keep the kit as it is, use an amplifier/monitor and just raise the volume on the EAD10 if drums aren't loud enough?
Switch to regular heads that aren't too loud compared to the cymbals?
Change the whole kit to something smaller?
Revisit the whole plan and make some kind of non invasive, cheap acoustic treatment to the garage?
Thanks for your help!