Product Description

Eliminates drum impact noise and improves drum rebound action.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1421 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: PDP
• Model: PL-9909
• Released on: 2009-04-25
• Platforms: PlayStation2, Nintendo Wii, PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.75" h x 9.00" w x 12.00" l, 1.00 pounds

Customer Reviews

They work but they're a touch expensive.
If you're looking at this product then you want quieter Rock Band drums. Thesde pads (made of a rubbery foam material) work well and significantly quieten the sound when playing they also do provide a good bt of spring back. They seem to be high quality and feel like they are not going to disintegrate any time soon (always a bonus). The pads also stick very well to the drums, no chance of them coming off.

Downsides? You do have to hit a little harder at the edges of the pads to register a hit (the center area is virtually unchanged with regard to the power required to register a hit). I didn't have an issue with this as I was already hitting hard but a few friends did.

Also, they are a touch expensive. If they ever come down to something like 9.99 then do not hesitate to pick them up. Anything over that though and you really should think whether you'll really get value for money from them.

Excellent - if you follow this advice
I found this post from "David" on the US Amazon.com site.
Extremely helpful if you find the pads don't fit on your drums.
I did this and it worked a treat...

"At first I got the drum pad silencers and held them up to the rock band drum pads and thought "this isn't going to work." Check out your RB drums. You'll notice a thin plastic rim around each drum. Well I expected these drum pads to fit inside that ring. Nope, if you stuck them on, they would go over the ring and then sort of float on top of the actual drum pad and MAYBE make contact in the center, where the pressure transducer is that picks up your drum strikes.

So, to install these drum pads, you must TAKE OFF THE PLASTIC RIM around the drums. It takes a few minutes, but isn't hard. You have to pull the striking part of each drum off individually. It takes a lot of force, but be careful not to yank out the wire underneath. If you look at your RB drums from below, you'll notice 3 or 4 small rubber wedges sticking through the plastic base. These are what hold the drums into the frame. Once you've pulled off a drum pad, unscrew the plastic rim, take it off, and reassemble the drum (make sure all the rubber pieces are back in place, sometimes they stay attached to the drum surface half and need to be taken off and screwed back into the base. Push the drum pad back onto the base and make sure all 4 rubber feet click into place. THEN stick the drum silencer onto the drum pad.

After performing the installation as I mentioned above, these pads make the RB drums much much much quieter and WAY more pleasant to play, especially in groups or at night. There are no installation instructions included with this kit, but there should be.

Another option is to trim the pads so they fit inside the plastic rim. I thought it would be easier and cleaner looking to remove the plastic rim instead"

DIstinctly Average
I bought these with my housemates in mind due to the noice of the basic rock band kit.

However, I've found that, yes they reduce the noise but they also reduce the sensitivity too. Without modifying the pads, they require a slightly harder hit which defeats the point as this produces more sound.

The pads cover all of the "drum hit area" and some of the rim therefore I have found manually cutting the pads to only go on the hit area has made the problem better. However, its not perfect and is still under-sensitive.

I've now given up on them and bough 3mm rubber ones which are much,much better.