DIY Tennis Ball Drum Riser - How I Built Mine! 

You should post a pic

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Cheers! The song was from the RU-vid library of free-to-use music. I cant remember the name of the song, sorry!

Thanks! Mine is 1400x900mm but you can build it to whatever size you need.

How many did u use? Is the platform working for you?

It seemed to work, yes. I've not had any complaints from the downstairs neighbours since building it and my wife cant even hear me in the next room!

If its a real kit, it wont do allot but an electronic kit, it should work great

So when I was researching it I read that keeping it balanced evenly across the balls gave the best results. As I weigh much more than my kit, adding room for the throne would have made all the weight concentrate one one side meaning it won’t be as effective. That, and lack of space in the room. I would have had to make this thing nearly double the size to include space for a throne which wasn’t practical.

@@smabacon Ok, but I play with my throne all the way up and so I’ll need something to raise my throne or else my electronic kit will be too high for me. Any ideas of what to put under the throne seat feet to raise it?

@@jeffd9193 I put a pillow on my throne and sat on that. Did the trick for me!

What have you done in the end ? I think it's possible to include the throne with the drum. Didn't try yet, but I think if you put more balls below the throne area to increase the stiffness, it should compensate the weight, and prevent any unbalance issue. Don't know if I'm clear though ^^.

@@smabaconyou could build a seccond platform for the throne only, even without tennis balls. Just a small wooden riser to get it all to the same level, maybe using scrap wood. This way you wouldnt need to be sitting on a pillow

a hole saw lol

It probably weighs at least 25kg, those 18mm sheets aren't light.

mm LOL Its not paper dog

my main reason was down to space, but I've read comments from others says that its more effective to keep the throne separate. Something to do with balance and how the player is much heavier than the rest of the kit, causing the tennis balls to be more compressed in one corner under where the throne would be, thus reducing the overall absorption quality of the riser. I don't know though. I never considered it as I wanted to keep the overall footprint as small as possible.

@@smabacon cool, thanks. I'm contemplating making one and was going to make one big enough for the throne also so need to weigh that up... 👍

@@smabacon understood but you should come up with a way to accommodate the drummer and the throne as they are part of "the footprint". But nice riser idea

32mm

Don’t see why not!

Thanks for reply, man.

I’m curious, do you have a low volume drum set?

@@DonVal86 I dont understand what you mean by low volume, I have a Boss td-9, and when I said neighbor i mean the person that lives on the apartment under mine.

@@caduolivera7890 I built one, it definitely helped as compared to playing my kit before I built it but it’s not going to make it 100% quite, I bought a set of Roland TD17 kvx, and also the noise eater kick drum pedal and noise eater hi hat stand and even a noise eater pad to go under the kick tower and you can still hear the kick drum, no where as loud as before but you can still hear it and if I’m not wearing headphones then you’re going to hear them through speakers. Luckily my brother lives under me and he has a studio too and I hear his music too so he really can’t complain. Maybe invite your neighbor up and show them the riser and let them see you’re doing what you can to keep the noise from traveling and see if you can agree that between certain times your going to practice, or see if they want to switch apartments lol

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Throne on the floor, just raise the height!

LOL, I got quite a chuckle outta this comment. Anyhow nice work on the idea to the maker of the video. Been thinking of ways to do the same.