I am a heavy rock player. When I play, I hit hard, and I side stick everything but my ride. You can't side stick a crash with these, it still makes enough noise that your parents will be annoyed by it. Other than that, everything else it mutes fine..just make sure you turn off your snare catch. If these worked well to deaden the crashes, I would absolutely love them, but crashes are the most important cymbal in the music I play.

The sound damping on all the drums was good, and the cymbal sounds were muted adequately. I would prefer them to be a little stiffer or give just a little more rebound. As it is, they're somewhat soft so you get a workout while you play with them. Nevertheless, they do what I need them to do. As for the other review about making the drums sound bad, that's ridiculous. Don't pay attention to him. Somebody's confused about what a drum mute is supposed to do. They're just supposed to squash the noise, that's it. They're not a magical volume knob you put in your acoustic set.

I keep my drum set in an upstairs bedroom and the Mrs. says that she barely notices when I am playing with these. She's even able to fall asleep downstairs as I am playing! It significantly muffles the set but my toms, bass drum, and snare still sound pretty good. Cymbals are another story; these completely kill my crash cymbal (all I get is a *plink* when I hit it). The ride is a little better - you can hear differences when hitting the bell, bow, or edge (but it still doesn’t sound quite right). Closed hi-hat sounds almost the same as not having the drum mute on but open hi-hat is similar to the *plink* of the crash. It’s weird but tolerable for practicing. My only real complaint though is when putting the cymbal mutes on and taking them off. You have to unscrew the top of your stands each time because the mute has to sit on the screw. Even so, the only truly annoying one to do is the hi-hat since you have to remove the entire top cymbal to mount/remove the mute.

These mutes do what they are supposed to do; give the maximum amount of drumhead feel while canceling out as much sound as possible. They are all easy to set-up and they allow me to practice late in the night. The toms are almost completely muted out but the bass drum and the snare have a nice sound to them, only softer.

I bought these for my set couse it was too loud for the people i was living with and i stopped playing if i had to use them cause it just made the drums not fun to play because the pads took away the acual feel of the drums and on top of that they made the drums sound bad