DIY Drum Enclosure
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Find the show notes and links at churchmediadrop.com/diy-drum-...
Notes about the DIY enclosure
- The aluminium frame was all 90 degree angled pieces
- The lexan(poly-carbonate) was sandwiched between the angled frame and aluminum strips using nuts and bolts
- The other side of the frame was bolted to the floor(drum riser)
- Lexan Thickness: 3/16 inch
Tips
- Adding a roof to your enclosure has a huge impact of reducing volume
- Enclosures get warm, we installed an exhaust fan to help reduce heat
- With any drum enclosure watch directions on cleaning and maintenance of the glass so that you don’t scratch the surface or cause damage. 
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I'm so inspired how you collaborated with a metal fabricator AND a math teacher to build a drum enclosure! Talk about resourceful! Great result here. Taking notes for our drum enclosure that we're building at my home church.
Thank you for all the info looking into doing this project for our church as well!
Thanks for talking about the drum enclosure, and why they're important. I've seen these on the Today Show, and others, and never understood what they were, and why they had to "be" until this video. Very cool. I'm a theatrical electrician for my band, and we don't have a drum enclosure yet. I'll be mentioning this to them soon.
I'm sure you could glue 12"x12" acoustic treatment foam panels on the back sheet which would limit the sound escape monumentally without restricting the ease of entry/exit of the enclosure.
You could glue strips of Velcro to the wall and the sheet causing it to seal well and allow the acoustic panels to do their job.
Thanks for posting, this was a very informative and well spoken video!
Great looking cage! If you want to cut down the bleed out the back a bit more, consider hanging a packing blanket behind your white sheet. They're less than $10 and they are dense enough to hold quite a bit of sound in. We used one of those on tour to control drum noise from our cage. Just a thought.
Awesome video, thanks guys!
Thanks for the video
Nice little project Brad! Good stuff. I have found the clear sonic style enclosures to be clunky and difficult to work around. Very difficult to get at the kick drum mic to alter positioning without moving heaven and earth to access it.
Thanks for sharing. We are considering making a DIY drum enclosure too and this has been very useful. Do you have a clip showing the sound of the drums with and without the enclosure?
I'm really interested in how you connected the lexan to the frame. Could you take some detailed photos of this and/or explain what you used? Thanx so much!
Great video. In my church we need to build something like this. What is your recommendation, where to start?
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Hello Brad, I really like your video. We are thinking about enclosing the drums. You mentioned 'lexem' where did you get it?
In our church the drums are really loud on stage, do you think it will help to make it much quieter
Thanks for your help
Do you have feedback on how the lexan absorbed sound? Compared to clear sonic? That’s what we have now, and the sides are leaky (where the clearsonic is NOT), but the clearsonic part really cuts sound well. Would you recommend moving from clearsonic to lexan?
You did a great job with this video. One of my favorite parts is when you're doing the 'air drums' in the cage! Lol! I'm running into the same issue with the link though... Is there a way to see the plans?
churchmediadrop.com/diy-drum-enclosure/
Hey bro where did you get the glass to buy
I really like this awesome idea for a custom drum cage, the link in the description doesn't seem to load when I click on it. It would be awesome if there was another one I could use!
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Thank you for this video! What about ventilation? Does it get hot in there?
I have a fan built into roof, also using the cloth on the back help let the heat get out.
Hi, thanks for sharing it. At our church we built a similar drum cage, using a curved glass (not sure the type of glass we used). But my question is, how do you guys treated the acoustic of the enclosure? We're having some bouncing problems and some frequencies that we need to treat. I'm thinking about add acoustic pyramid foam to the ceiling and back walls, but not sure if I should cover the entire walls and ceiling or just part of it. Any ideas/tips?
Usually, when it comes to acoustic treatment, you want at least 80% coverage. So, I think, you might’ve well just do all of it. I’m pretty late, so you probably already did.
Hi Brad,
I am looking to do a very similar thing.
Could you tell me where you purchased the Lexan?
I would like to contact them and see if they could help source it locally.
Thanks,
Cliff
What do you use to make the roof?
Hi! What about approx weight of this drum enclosure? Thank you.
You should put a projector on the sheet
Are these plans still available somewhere?
well explained, except for.........how and where was the LEXAN formed into an arc?
Simply attached the lexan to one end and then worked my way to the other. It was straight when attaching.
Hi Brad, I've been looking around in my area for Lexan and 1/4" X 6' X10' is very hard to find! I'd have to buy a batch of 10 sheets at 570$ each! :I Did you ever consider trying thinner Lexan like 3/16" or 1/8"? 1/8" is half price + 10% I watched a reseller show me how strong 1/8" is! He practically bended a 2' X 4' piece into a full circle with a lot of elbow grease ;) He said that to bend 1/4" would be pretty hard and 3/16" would do fine and even 1/8" for this projet. What do you think?
I know this comment is old LOL, but he did actually use 3/16
who was the vendor?
Hey Brad, is there an updated link to the show notes? I can’t seem to open it.
Agreed. I would love to get the drawings as well. Is there a new link?
He IS Church guy.
I was looking for something readily affordable
your total costs were the same as one you could buy already made??
No, this was easily 4,000 less.
trust me, if they really only spent $1500, they saved at least $5000-$7000.
What thickness of lexan did you get?
3/16 - please check the notes links for all other questions.
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Anyone ever need to fabricate one fo these drums cages or anything, I'm a welder/fabricator and a musician. Hmu
Hi...Our drummer just whams the drums so hard.. and the church is shaped like a chapel. All echo. i just bought him a pair of hotrod dowel drum sticks.. and he rehearsed with the sticks.. cut down the noise and sound of the drums by alot. Like rediculiously alot.. Yet he will not play with the hot rods. He says they feel to light.. As the audio tech of the church, I recommended these sticks.. but some people are not willing to give new things a chance.. even if its to help the worship team, which struggles to hear themselves via stage monitors.. So they will be purchasing a drum shield from guitar center.. ($400). All it takes is a $10 fix..oh well.. Thank you for the video. very helpful.
+Herbie Habato Your drummer is right. Hotrod dowell drum sticks aren't the greatest to play with.
+Zenas101 hi hope your day is going good. hot rods are not the best for certain types of music.. but what we need Zenas101, at our church since its a hall shaped and captures any type of sound and amplifies it naturally due to its structure, solution hotrods or he can play softer.. either way it takes technique and practice to conquer this.. thats the issue we have. its not much his ability to play but a sound issue.. we have to consider all in the band..
Herbie Habato I play in a drum cage and I still have to play with hot rods
Caleb_richard_coasters drums awe man. I'm at church now. Still no change. So we are planning on an electronic set. Cheers
Herbie Habato I play with these nylon hot rods and our sound technician is talking about building a new drum cage into the back wall of our church.
Ahhhhh you reek of jesusness
No
use that same money to cover the sanctuary in sound absorbing material. You can literally engineer a room that swallows the drums.
I think you wasted your cash and your drummers should play quietly (piano=p) or even ppp. use brushes or make quiet sticks out of thin doweling. problem solved for under 10 dollars.place a huge cushion in the bass drum.Zildjian make quiet cymbals now. L80's.
Do you have any idea how that cuts down on the sound quality? It's bad enough using those cheap thunder sticks, but then to add in quieter crap symbols, you're gonna do yourself more hurt than good. Not to mention, this still isn't even the purpose of a drum cage. The whole point is to completely eliminate as much stage noise as possible so it doesn't interfere with what the sound guys are doing in the back and in the house. The other reason for a full cage is to give the sound techs full control over the sound of the drums and be able to actually balance them in with the rest of the band. You can hand one drummer quieter sticks and have the quieter drummers still play with regular sticks, but no matter how quiet you play, you will either lose the sound quality of the drums, or you are still washing out the rest of the band, especially in a room with poor acoustics or lively walls. technique cannot fix poor acoustics and sound control in a room. Only proper materials and placement can do so.
So basically you can have a full drum set and give them crap sticks and symbols, and fire all of your tech guys in the back because you are wasting your money. They have nothing to balance then if they have no control over the drums. What are they sitting back there for?
Personally, if I know there is a way I could get a full drum sound and give the techs full control over it, I would think it's foolish to find a cheaper and much less effective option and go with that. Our job as a worship team is to deliver an experience that draws people in and eliminates as many distractions as possible. You're trying to come close to god yourself and bring the people in front of you along. You can't do that when the drums are blasting loud or sound like crud because of bad sticks and cheap symbols. I just think it's a little counter intuitive to choose to save money rather than spend it and give the congregation a better experience and help them to worship distraction free. That's just my two cents!
No.
what was the purpose of this long drawn out video? this guy just likes to talk.