Evans EQ Pad Bass Drum Dampeners - Bass Drum Sound Dampening - Attaches to Drum Shell - Adjustable, Hinged - Controls Attack & Sustain - Great for Close Drum Mics - 1 Multi-Use Pad

These pillows are amazing. I have one in each of my bass drums. They work exactly as advertised. They look good inside the kit and they sound great. Since they are simply resting on the batterhead they are not dampening it completely. They bounce off and rest back on the head, acting almost like a gate. Awesome!

Anything from Evans is good. Makes a difference in your sound. A lot better, and more attractive than using a pillow or blanket. You can muffle one or both heads. Comes with 2 Velcro strips already attached, to stick onto your shell interior.

This pad works great for me. I have a Pearl Masters 22"x18" kick with Evans Emad heads; EmadII batter and Emad Clear reso... I also have a Kickport installed in the front head. The slight amount of "give" as the pad hinges forward after being propelled away from the head lasts just long enough to give the sound of my kick drum a satisfying amount of "body", and actually increases the punchy sound at the same time. I've never had ANYONE come to my home studio and not comment on how good this setup sounds. I'm totally happy with this product, and would only caution that you cannot adjust the pad with the front head on! I was lucky enough to be giving some drum lessons and the student's arm fit through the Kickport, so he adjusted the pad!!! Truth be told it was almost perfect anyway, as I'd used the following method: simply put a solid object of some kind (large cardboard box, piece of plywood, etc) in front of your kick drum with the front head off while adjusting the EQ Pad. Listen to the reflected sound as you change how much the pad is contacting the drum head. If you use a front head as I do, just remember the resulting sound will be fuller and more resonant with the front head installed; just less 'boomy'... That's it! Highly recommended as a very neat, clean effective method for damping your kick-drum resonance to your liking.

So this thing gets smashed in reviews. I understand why, but you need to understand the product. It is a light padded muffler. Not a 14 pound pillow. It's design is made for movement, not for the purpose of pushing 14 pounds against your head. It's to aid in tone, not completely stop it. Some peoples issues go much further than just needing a bit of tone control. Bad head choices, tuning skill and drum quality all matter to tone. So if your kick sounds better when you stick a 14 pound pillow in it... well, sorry about your dang luck. If you don't like the velcro situation, large Command strips will work very well and are removable without leaving a scar when used properly. This pad does what it says, it allows for movement and dynamics while aiding in tone control. Not overly so which is great. I only use this for jazz style tunings and heads that can cause more overtones than lower tunings and say, a PowerStroke 3. The kick I use 95% of the time is 20x16 Premier Maple Genista with a PowerStroke 3 batter. My reso fluctuates more with need. I don't always use this pad because I tune a bit lower mostly, but when I need it I just put it in the drum flat and that's it. No velcro. Due to the size of this, and the 16" depth of the drum this will touch a bit of the reso and a bit of the batter both. This achieves exactly what I need without over doing it. I recommend this to those people that don't need EXTREME muffling. Great product.

For years i used to only play wide open and this is even better. Just the right amount of muffling to tame overtones or basketball bouncing sound, and add more bass. Has zero weight to it. I use just one in 14" or 16" depth kick drums, just laid in there, no velcro and it works just fine. So glad i got over the stigma of having nothing inside the kick.

Very cool piece of gear. So first off, this thing goes in your bass drum to provide adequate dampening. This reduces sustain and soaks up high overtones you might encounter. The EQ Pad comes with velcro strips that you can attach to the inside of your kick drum shell. Setup is simple. Position the EQ Pad so that it rests slightly against your batter head, like you would a normal pillow or towel. The cool part of this product is the hinged design. When you strike the head the pad will "float off" slightly giving you a nice round sound, then it pops down and does its job dampening your unwanted sustain and overtones. I tested the EQ Pad on two different kick drums. An 18x22 and a 14x20. I prefer my dampening devices to rest on both the batter (striking) and resonant (front/logo side) heads and the EQ pad just doesnt reached both heads in an 18in deep drum. It is however perfect for the 14" depth, and I suspect it would work on a 16" deep kick drum as well. Perfect for rock, country, metal, and punk. Would not recommend for jazz.

Great choice

Just enough to stop the overtones but still make the kick sound good. Much better than the old pillow i used to stuff inside.

Sehr gutes Produkt dämpft sehr gut

Ce "coussin/sourdine" pour grosse caisse est léger et assez fin, rien à voir avec un vrai coussin ou un oreiller. L'épaisseur et la taille de la sourdine sont différentes à chacune des extrémités. En ce qui me concerne , j'ai placé la sourdine "épaisse/large" côté frappe. Ce pad s'installe très facilement, il suffit de le poser dans la grosse caisse; on peut aussi le fixer pour qu'il ne bouge plus (si on transporte la grosse caisse, ça évite de replacer la sourdine à chaque fois, surtout si la peau de résonance n'a pas de "trou") à l'aide de 2 bandes de scotch "double face" (fournies avec le pad) qui viennent se coller sur le fond de la grosse caisse, la partie supérieure de celles-ci étant constituée de bandes "velcro" qui permettent d'installer la sourdine comme on le souhaite et ça ne bouge plus. Personnellement, mon pad est juste posé dans la grosse caisse; je précise que la taille du pad lui permet de s'ajuster parfaitement avec une grosse caisse de 14" de profondeur, les deux extrémités de celui-ci touchant les peaux "juste ce qu'il faut"; ce ne sera pas le cas avec une grosse caisse plus profonde et il faudra alors envisager un second pad pour arriver à "toucher" la peau de résonance, si c'est ce qu'on souhaite bien etendu. Venons en à l'essentiel : est-ce efficace ? Alors là, tout dépend de ce qu'on recherche. Pour moi, c'est impeccable parce que ça assourdi juste ce qu'il faut ma grosse caisse et ça lui donne l'équilibre que je recherche entre attaque et résonance, en laissant un son vivant et assez ouvert. Si on recherche un "assourdissement" plus important, il faudra mettre un second pad ou alors revenir au classique "oreiller", qui permet de conserver l'attaque mais qui "tue" la résonance. À vous de choisir. Voilà...!

La instalación fue de un minuto, facilísimo. Una vez puesto, gracias a los velcros, no se mueve. A la hora del transporte es fundamental. Y realmente, ha cambiado por completo el sonido del bombo. Milagroso!!!!

This product has good quality.

Crei que no iba a funcionar, un buen bombo, buena afinacion, buena ecualizacion y un buen baterista, realmente hizo que la mejora fue audible totalmente. Adios almohadas, sabanas, etc..