Somehow Xymox delivered a pad to Panama before it delivered to the US. Mine took something like 7 months to arrive but it’s been 8 years and it still feels good.
I lucked out a little more than a year ago. I found an old tan RealFeel pad in excellent condition for just a little over $100, (with shipping). Looking at the prices they’re going for lately, I definitely got lucky. Great review!
I can appreciate your effort and I had no idea there were this many pads out there. I am an old school kit drummer and when I first began playing 5.5 decades ago I had a pair of Regal Tip 7a drumsticks a guy gave me. We were a family of very modest means and an actual drum would not come until 3 years later. An old blue chair cushion and the mattress on my bed were my playing surfaces. I tried the wooden chair now and again but I got grief from my Mom. You are a very talented drummer and your many levels above what I can do. However even now I still play on the mattress. My home in Florida has about 11-12 acoustic kits and a couple E drum kits. In San Diego I have nothing here except sticks. But my point is this: There is a benefit to playing on a “dead surface” such as the mattress. Your required to lift the stick and than repeat each and every stroke. Sitting on my bed cross legged and resting my forearms on my legs, I have only 2 movements; my wrists and my fingers. This in turn develops pretty impressive speed and stick control. When I lift my forearms up I can move my arms back and forth across the surface of the mattress. So without reading charts I will start with a left stick on the left side of the mattress and do single, double, or triple stroke rolls moving across to the right and ending with the right stick. I than start with the right stick and move back to the left. You get the idea. A firm cushion or the mattress. Anytime, any place, you bother no one and the cost is a pair of sticks. Try it.
@@Gamerpro-bb6mwI'm a gigging drummer, but primarily concert percussionist. We have bunch of these Remo pads at the practice room and they're really just tolerable. They're nothing to be really disgusted by, but at some point they just really feel like playing on a stack of books and the sound is also a good equivalent of that. They're funny and quite disappointing in terms of feel and sound, but in terms off being responsive and being pretty close to a snare drumhead... they do an outstanding job.
One thing I *WILL* say for it: at least you can find it in stores to buy, unlike a certain other company that takes *WAY TOO LONG* to deliver their goods, one we not identify but probably will anyway *cough cough* Xymox.
I've tried the rampad pro before and I have to say it has the most realistic rebound to a marching snare than any other pad I've tried. The curved head is what really throws it off though. its there to establish playing zones, but it really gets in the way when trying to play with two people or trying to get familiar with rimshots on a real rim. The tone is great on it though. The rampad marching is a different pad (shown on this video) which im gonna try shortly, mainly for the flat head.
Just a warning about the old school tan RealFeels, after 25 or 30 years the tan side starts to dry out and degrade a little. Still playable, but not as nice as when it was new. Yes I'm that old.
I got myself a Remo tunable pad (because it was all my local music store had) and it WILL NOT stay in place. I’m gonna end up spending however much I have to spend on one of those screw in stands just so it’ll stop moving all the time and I can actually use it.
The Remo "Tunable" pad is the bane of my existence. For years this has been the pad that comes with all of the beginner drum kits for school bands. Now some of the manufacturers are starting to go with a much better rubber pad option. Pearl has a great rubber pad and it is smaller and very well made. Ludwig has started doing this as well with their own version. Dear Remo- stick to making drum heads and please stop manufacturing a pad that sounds like a wet show box! I know this has been the pad of choice for so many years, but let's move on to the present. Now.
I understand the rage about the feel and sound of this pad, but for a concert percussionist and those who don't just care for rudiments, it's still a love-hate relationship with this pad. The only thing that this practice pad does damn right is representing a real head. Evans RealFeel is objectively better, because it ticks the boxes of feel and sound. For marching use, RF is an absolute no brainer, but for other uses it's debatable. You can practice on RF a night before, but the next day on a real snare drum, stuff that sounded on RF great, sounds very questionable on a real snare drum, because the amount of rebound on RF is quite unreal. No professor likes the Remo pad because of the sound and feel, but because of it's rebound accuracy.
Wow you bought all of these? Very personal of course. For example, I love the Vic Firth Stockpad (Your C) and dislike their Slimpad (Your A). I like them not too hard, not too soft, with the same feel as a snare drum. The very soft "workout pads" I just don't get, and the very hard marching pads are from an irrelevant world for me. I once got into a NAMM show and spent hours with any pad I could find. The Stockpad was for me.
Maybe my old fart educator vibe is showing. But the Remo tunable practice pad is still being made, and is still finding its way into the hands of drum students across the country and around the world. Generations of drummers played their first strokes on this pad, and many of us kept using it all through high school and college. In the time before marching-specific pads even existed, this was the ONLY pad that could offer anything resembling an actual drum. Given a choice between this and the gray Evans rubber pad, I’d give my student the ten-inch version of the Remo and call it good. in the modern era, there are still kids who cannot afford a marching-specific pad. Most of those are overpriced for what you get, environmentally unsustainable, and they don’t last as long. At least with the Remo pad, the head can be changed, saving money (and resources!) over a longer period of time. If you want to trash a pad, trash the Gladstone style pad, which STILL comes with many entry-level student snare drum kits and is atrocious to play. But the Remo pad still has a place in the practice ad arena, or Remo wouldn’t still be making and selling them in the millions.
The OLD Remos with the metal housing were pretty good. I wouldn't say they were better than the beige RealFeels of a generation later, but they were pretty good. When Remo went to the plastic housing, it became trash. Sadly, I have no idea what happened to my metal one. Its one of the few things I've lost that I have tried to keep up with. I must have loaned it out and not gotten it back.
xymox pads are GOATED. they just f'd up on customer service. still tho, they make the best pads i've owned. best tenor pads, snare pads, even that table thing they made, great shit. just FIX YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE XYMOX!!! the most recent order i made was the tenor kick pads, i ordered it in july and got it the next month. from the 4 orders i have made these past 3 years, they have all come in within a couple months of the order.
They feel nice. It's nothing special, but they do the job just fine. These pads are quite similar to grey VF pads. Feels great, sounds great, but amount of rebound is quite bizzare. For practicing rudiments it's pretty decent. At some point in future though, a soft pad will be needed in order to improve finger technique.
Maybe my old fart educator vibe is showing. But the Remo tunable practice pad is still being made, and is still finding its way into the hands of drum students across the country and around the world. Generations of drummers played their first strokes on this pad, and many of us kept using it all through high school and college. In the time before marching-specific pads even existed, this was the ONLY pad that could offer anything resembling an actual drum. Given a choice between this and the gray Evans rubber pad, I’d give my student the ten-inch version of the Remo and call it good. in the modern era, there are still kids who cannot afford a marching-specific pad. Most of those are overpriced for what you get, environmentally unsustainable, and they don’t last as long. At least with the Remo pad, the head can be changed, saving money (and resources!) over a longer period of time. If you want to trash a pad, trash the Gladstone style pad, which STILL comes with many entry-level student snare drum kits and is atrocious to play. But the Remo pad still has a place in the practice ad arena, or Remo wouldn’t still be making and selling them in the millions.
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Somehow Xymox delivered a pad to Panama before it delivered to the US. Mine took something like 7 months to arrive but it’s been 8 years and it still feels good.
I love my Xymox pad. I have had it for 5 years and it just rocks.
I love practice pad and stick review. Maybe you should do a stick tier list in the near future
I lucked out a little more than a year ago. I found an old tan RealFeel pad in excellent condition for just a little over $100, (with shipping). Looking at the prices they’re going for lately, I definitely got lucky. Great review!
I can appreciate your effort and I had no idea there were this many pads out there. I am an old school kit drummer and when I first began playing 5.5 decades ago I had a pair of Regal Tip 7a drumsticks a guy gave me. We were a family of very modest means and an actual drum would not come until 3 years later. An old blue chair cushion and the mattress on my bed were my playing surfaces. I tried the wooden chair now and again but I got grief from my Mom. You are a very talented drummer and your many levels above what I can do. However even now I still play on the mattress. My home in Florida has about 11-12 acoustic kits and a couple E drum kits. In San Diego I have nothing here except sticks. But my point is this: There is a benefit to playing on a “dead surface” such as the mattress. Your required to lift the stick and than repeat each and every stroke. Sitting on my bed cross legged and resting my forearms on my legs, I have only 2 movements; my wrists and my fingers. This in turn develops pretty impressive speed and stick control. When I lift my forearms up I can move my arms back and forth across the surface of the mattress. So without reading charts I will start with a left stick on the left side of the mattress and do single, double, or triple stroke rolls moving across to the right and ending with the right stick. I than start with the right stick and move back to the left. You get the idea. A firm cushion or the mattress. Anytime, any place, you bother no one and the cost is a pair of sticks. Try it.
the remo tunable pad is worse than a table 💀
It depends, for a percussionist who is used to marching snare than yes. But for a concert percussionist it works really well.
@@Gamerpro-bb6mwI'm a gigging drummer, but primarily concert percussionist. We have bunch of these Remo pads at the practice room and they're really just tolerable. They're nothing to be really disgusted by, but at some point they just really feel like playing on a stack of books and the sound is also a good equivalent of that. They're funny and quite disappointing in terms of feel and sound, but in terms off being responsive and being pretty close to a snare drumhead... they do an outstanding job.
they are unbelievable mediocre but are my favorite because of how it sounds like a snare a lil (pearl version)
One thing I *WILL* say for it: at least you can find it in stores to buy, unlike a certain other company that takes *WAY TOO LONG* to deliver their goods, one we not identify but probably will anyway *cough cough* Xymox.
I found 6 reelfeels not too long ago and 3d printed rims for them.
My friend has a gray SPL pad that feels absolutely amazing
I've tried the rampad pro before and I have to say it has the most realistic rebound to a marching snare than any other pad I've tried. The curved head is what really throws it off though. its there to establish playing zones, but it really gets in the way when trying to play with two people or trying to get familiar with rimshots on a real rim. The tone is great on it though. The rampad marching is a different pad (shown on this video) which im gonna try shortly, mainly for the flat head.
Drumslinger Corps Pad or Marcher Pad. Very responsive and built like a tank.
Just a warning about the old school tan RealFeels, after 25 or 30 years the tan side starts to dry out and degrade a little. Still playable, but not as nice as when it was new. Yes I'm that old.
i still have my mvmt 4-1 pad and it’s still pretty great
I got myself a Remo tunable pad (because it was all my local music store had) and it WILL NOT stay in place. I’m gonna end up spending however much I have to spend on one of those screw in stands just so it’ll stop moving all the time and I can actually use it.
I have this pad :D (and many similar) 4:17
ikea adjustable stool beats all of these
The Remo "Tunable" pad is the bane of my existence. For years this has been the pad
that comes with all of the beginner drum kits for school bands. Now some of the
manufacturers are starting to go with a much better rubber pad option. Pearl has
a great rubber pad and it is smaller and very well made. Ludwig has started doing
this as well with their own version. Dear Remo- stick to making drum heads and
please stop manufacturing a pad that sounds like a wet show box! I know this has
been the pad of choice for so many years, but let's move on to the present. Now.
I understand the rage about the feel and sound of this pad, but for a concert percussionist and those who don't just care for rudiments, it's still a love-hate relationship with this pad. The only thing that this practice pad does damn right is representing a real head. Evans RealFeel is objectively better, because it ticks the boxes of feel and sound. For marching use, RF is an absolute no brainer, but for other uses it's debatable. You can practice on RF a night before, but the next day on a real snare drum, stuff that sounded on RF great, sounds very questionable on a real snare drum, because the amount of rebound on RF is quite unreal. No professor likes the Remo pad because of the sound and feel, but because of it's rebound accuracy.
heavy hitter pad ON a wood table goes hard by the way
For the algorithm✋
I bought a xymox snare pad recently you think im ever getting it? If not should I demand a refund?
Wow you bought all of these? Very personal of course. For example, I love the Vic Firth Stockpad (Your C) and dislike their Slimpad (Your A). I like them not too hard, not too soft, with the same feel as a snare drum. The very soft "workout pads" I just don't get, and the very hard marching pads are from an irrelevant world for me. I once got into a NAMM show and spent hours with any pad I could find. The Stockpad was for me.
Maybe my old fart educator vibe is showing. But the Remo tunable practice pad is still being made, and is still finding its way into the hands of drum students across the country and around the world. Generations of drummers played their first strokes on this pad, and many of us kept using it all through high school and college. In the time before marching-specific pads even existed, this was the ONLY pad that could offer anything resembling an actual drum.
Given a choice between this and the gray Evans rubber pad, I’d give my student the ten-inch version of the Remo and call it good.
in the modern era, there are still kids who cannot afford a marching-specific pad. Most of those are overpriced for what you get, environmentally unsustainable, and they don’t last as long. At least with the Remo pad, the head can be changed, saving money (and resources!) over a longer period of time.
If you want to trash a pad, trash the Gladstone style pad, which STILL comes with many entry-level student snare drum kits and is atrocious to play. But the Remo pad still has a place in the practice ad arena, or Remo wouldn’t still be making and selling them in the millions.
The OLD Remos with the metal housing were pretty good. I wouldn't say they were better than the beige RealFeels of a generation later, but they were pretty good. When Remo went to the plastic housing, it became trash. Sadly, I have no idea what happened to my metal one. Its one of the few things I've lost that I have tried to keep up with. I must have loaned it out and not gotten it back.
What would you rank the offworld invader w/ a laminate?
xymox pads are GOATED. they just f'd up on customer service. still tho, they make the best pads i've owned. best tenor pads, snare pads, even that table thing they made, great shit. just FIX YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE XYMOX!!! the most recent order i made was the tenor kick pads, i ordered it in july and got it the next month. from the 4 orders i have made these past 3 years, they have all come in within a couple months of the order.
What do yall think about xymox tenor kick vs tenor pad?
xymox all the way
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I was high. Get off my back old man
You left out the drumeo quiet pad
What about Meinl ?
They feel nice. It's nothing special, but they do the job just fine. These pads are quite similar to grey VF pads. Feels great, sounds great, but amount of rebound is quite bizzare. For practicing rudiments it's pretty decent. At some point in future though, a soft pad will be needed in order to improve finger technique.
cmon man I just bought a Remo tuneable, it's all the shop has and I'm not going back to spend $100 on a better one
I have that one too! It works well if you are used to concert snare but if you are used to marching snare it may feel a bit weird.
Where ahead😢
It’s actually pronounced “eelee” ;)
Buy xymox pads super reliable!
Yes! Very good customer service and great shipping!
Yall funny😂
their pads are the best, just need to fix their customer service
Maybe my old fart educator vibe is showing. But the Remo tunable practice pad is still being made, and is still finding its way into the hands of drum students across the country and around the world. Generations of drummers played their first strokes on this pad, and many of us kept using it all through high school and college. In the time before marching-specific pads even existed, this was the ONLY pad that could offer anything resembling an actual drum.
Given a choice between this and the gray Evans rubber pad, I’d give my student the ten-inch version of the Remo and call it good.
in the modern era, there are still kids who cannot afford a marching-specific pad. Most of those are overpriced for what you get, environmentally unsustainable, and they don’t last as long. At least with the Remo pad, the head can be changed, saving money (and resources!) over a longer period of time.
If you want to trash a pad, trash the Gladstone style pad, which STILL comes with many entry-level student snare drum kits and is atrocious to play. But the Remo pad still has a place in the practice ad arena, or Remo wouldn’t still be making and selling them in the millions.