People who own electronic drum kits and live in apartments have probably experienced some type of issues with their neighbors.
While electronic drum kits feature drum modules with auxiliary inputs for headphone use during practice, the sound of strikes on pads and cymbals can still travel, potentially disturbing your next-door neighbor and disrupting the social harmony within the community.
Let's face it — drums have always been noisy. This does not mean that exist different solutions to avoid a headache for those around you :)
Having experienced this firsthand with my brother, we started this project to address this issue. I designed all the parts and technical drawings using SolidWorks, which were then fabricated at a carpentry workshop in Málaga. Finally, we assembled all the components together.
We adapted our necessities and priorities around creating something similar to this platform.
It’s all based around one material: sylomer.
20 sylomer pads
Sylomer is a material frequently used in the railway, construction, and industrial sectors as one of the most effective anti-vibration solutions. Its exceptional properties and versatility enable the isolation of vibrations and noise emitted by solid structures.
In this project, 20 sylomer pads are distributed across the bottom surface of the platform (the number of sylomer pads depends on the size of the platform), effectively cushioning all vibrations generated by strikes on the pads and cymbals. Placing the drum kit on this platform prevents vibrations from being directly transferred to the floor, resulting in a significant reduction in noise and vibrations by nearly half.
This is all what it needs
From idea to reality
Martín's neighbor didn't complain again :).