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 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.
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.
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.
the remo tunable pad is worse than a table 💀
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.
My friend has a gray SPL pad that feels absolutely amazing
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.
For the algorithm✋
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.
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
Drumslinger Corps Pad or Marcher Pad. Very responsive and built like a tank.
ikea adjustable stool beats all of these
What would you rank the offworld invader w/ a laminate?
It’s actually pronounced “eelee” ;)
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
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