Bass Drum Beater Roundup - 43 Beaters Reviewed! 

I like the part where the terribly tuned bass drum goes, "bap...BAP...ba-ba-ba-BAP"

For Christ sake your a major drum magazine, next time tune the kick drum!

I had no Idea of how many shapes and sizes of beaters out there. Thanks for showing !

Regardless of the beater, this bass drum sounds dead and flat

bap....ba-ba-ba-bap....

Thumbs up just for all the work you put in to test and record 43 bass drum beaters.

They all sound the same in the end and are hard to compare when you bury the beater 😧

thanks for this extensive comparison! I like wood beaters, they help to cut through the mix. But i love the sound of those huge fluffy balls! Still talking about drums!

I think what people aren’t talking about enough is that it’s a feel thing, when we use sticks we adjust or grips over time and we try different sticks with different weights, balances and thicknesses, it’s the same thing with a beater, it just effects our foot speed, fluidity, technique and feel

ba.....bap....bababaBAP...

Imho those were the best. Ahead - Pro Kick Much Wave 2:55 - the brightest Tama - Speed kick Bob's Two way 4:21 - lightly dampen Tama - Soft Sound 3:49 - the most quiet Vic Firth - VicKick VKB4 Cajon 4:40 - universal Skate wheels do magic as a beater or you can use Danmar UFO skate beater :)

3 minutes in..... OK. THAT BEAT IS SCARING ME NOW.

My favorite, though not by much, is the second side they use of the Mach Wave beater starting around 2:56. Has a good focus to the attack...still, I think it'd be more objective if they did the recordings with a more distantly-placed microphone. That way you'd get the full sound rather than just the attack.

Got through the first five, no way I can listen to that rhythm 43 times.

How far did your drum move by the end of the comparison? Watching it move messes with my OCD!

kudos to this drummer!!!!!great control

Which ones felt better. Did some allow for quicker rebound than others?

Good reference. Thank you.

Lowboy standard right side forward sounds solid !

This comparison was very useful, it shows that you have 20+ models of beaters that have pretty much the same sound. Doesn’t matter that much the model, the kick sound would be 98% like the other model.

That was fantastic thank you!

awesome testing, though you realize that most of the hard beats are distorted on the pre amp right? would love to hear all thos kicks with a condenser mic on the room, wich isnt saturated.

Damn. That drum kit in the intro sound bad ass!

I'd like to hear this agin but with a little more tension on the kick

That's eight minutes of my life I'll never get back.

Any hammer type of beater seems to deliver more a punch compared to a rounded felt tip

Hopefully there was a mic inside the drum and not just a 57 hovering on the beater side at the hoop. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that technique. Also, love the Gibraltar Tide Pod at the end.

He saved on tennis to buy this amount of beaters.

Help me guys, what's better bet single-chain drive and direct drive??? pls also suggest the cheapest but durable brand

Interesting video

this is a cool video! tnx!

This was a good exercise. The fluffy ones sound the same and the felt ones sound the same and the hard ones sound the same.

I have tried danmar axis tama ic pearl quad trick and finally found my lifetime winner dw sm110

i like gibralter wood naturql one.

Was pleasantly surprised with Gibraltar g class.

It’s really hard to hear any difference when you have your bass drum that dampened

Your bass drum is slipping do u have a roller??

Hola!! Alguien me podría decir de que esta hecho el maso que sale en el minuto 3:23?? Gracias!!!

Not to even try an Axis wrecking ball beater is a big mistake. Those beaters hit very hard and with the Axis pedal are super fast.

ASMR of Drummers

What is that double 'box' sound everytime? Override?

i use pearl quad beater. flat plastic side.

ほとんどの動画がクローズ奏法ばかりで　それしか出来ないんやろうなぁ～と思ってたところ　この動画を拝見致しました　大変参考になりました！

*dun dUN DUNDUNDUNDUN*

That first soft beat for each demonstration irritated me every time. I don’t know why though 😂😂😂

IDK if you are just using an SM-57 at the batter side (I hope not). But from the way this video sounds , it makes it sound like all beaters are the same , and that you should just go out and buy the cheapest one you can find. Which isn't accurate because different beaters "do" make a difference (along with heads , tuning , bass drum size , etc.) Interesting video though.

Now that ios a good drum player, he doesn't a double pedal to play fast. But the other metal guys eth double bass drums are still cool too.

They should have explained that the idea behind this demonstration is how the beaters affect play. Not what the drum sounds like. Short of attaching the pedal to a sheet of ply wood, this is the most logical way to do it. But I guess it's too hard for some folks to resist expressing their expertise because, well, we all knew this, Right?

Fascinating...

That's no longer a bass drum. All the resonance has been damped away. No wonder all these beaters sound so similar. And why are the claws not in line with the lugs?

Damm where did you get all of them beaters from? All the money u spent on all them beaters . You could of bought a decent pair of shoes . Ha ha

I hope you saved all your receipts !

What? No skate wheel?

WHAT ARE THOSE !!??

It's not the beaters or Famous brand drums,it's the Guy or Girl ,in Spanish ( es El MONO quien la toca)

Interesting.

maybe if your bass drum was tune right it would sound good!

Good

Lo más lindo es el augero de la zapatilla

It would have been a much more musical approach if you didn't choke the last note of ever four strokes. What would have been more effective would have been, one open tone, one closed tone (burying the beater) and four rapid open tones. Nevertheless thanks for the upload and production.. Much appreciated..

Nice ....

muito bom

Holy shoe 👀

And where is the reviews?

So what ive gathered most of them sounded the same.... Like all the hard wood beaters sounded the same, all the felt beaters sounded the same.... So brands for beaters don't mean shit, is what I'm taking away from this...

How about you tune the drum first

I see the shoes, this guy can play skateboard cool!

Who on earth would use the pointy end ?

mad man

You change the beater but you have to change your shoe! ;)

Hey Billy we are going to have you record a you tube video for us on bass drum beaters so please make sure you wear nice shoes !

80th 8ï

All these negative comments. Can't make everyone happy. Kick drum sounds fine to me. Don't like rock? Make your own demo of beaters. Whiny cry babies.. Nice demo dude.

boom... Boom... B-B-B-BOOM

Wow

Didn't see a Slug beater...

And i thought i can't tune

mucha diferencia no hay

Boom......boom.....boom.boom.boom.boom!

I guess that air hole in the shoe makes your feet faster.

2:00めり込んだかと思った

Once i hear this, i imagine the Believer from Imagine Dragons 😂

ahaha you forgot my dad

If i'm not mistaken, it's actually not good to keep the beater down with pressure on the head after a hit.

good lord...learn how to tune a bass drum!

cool thanks ;) but change your shoes guy ;)

Acho q o cara precisa e de um tênis novo 😁

Lyrics: Bump, bump, bubububump...

The difference (if any) is negligible........

These comments are ridiculous. I love it lol

They sound exactly the same.

All sound the same. Which makes sense since they're just roughly the same sized objects hitting the same sized drum. Only thing that would make a noticeable different sound would be adjusting the size of the surface area of the object hitting the drum. So your standard beater..... then one about the size of a mallet...... then one the size of a drum stick, etc. Changing the shape of an object but keeping it roughly the same size (read as sq. inch surface area hitting the drum) will make little to no difference....... as evidenced here.

Safer

Ft tall

Tá tá. Tá tá tá

aucune différence ou comment s'emmerder a faire une vidéo de pied droit

For fuck's sake, tuned this low everything is going to sound the same. When professional drum channels are posting stuff tuned this poorly, I begin to understand why every drummer I meet has such terrible, generic sounds.

Is 3:50..

$100 says whoever that is plays in a church band.

Is it just me or is this guy’s time inconsistent?