Gibraltar Double Bass Drum Impact Pad

its always a hit or a miss with this item which is a shame since they no longer carry Danmar. basically the adhesive which bonds the pad together is either perfect or trash straight out the package. and contacting Gibraltar is useless because they advise you submit a claim with MF.

Durable and great sound

This review is about the adhesive patches with hard plastic or metal disks inside of them. This product is useful for increasing the attack of your bass drum. This is helpful in musical situations where you need a lot of clarity, such as fast 16th note patterns or intense metal. The impact pad is distinct for its ability to provide attack or clarity while still allowing the drum to resonant, giving that "fat" sound. This combination is impossible to achieve with conventional muffling (pillows and such). A lot of people make a big mistake when they put one of these pads on their drum. People don't realize that the pad muffles the drum significantly more than a Falam slam or some other fabric patch. As such, people will often put a lot of muffling in their bass drums to get that punchy sound, then bring home one of these pads and just slap it on there without changing the interior muffling. THIS WILL VASTLY OVER-MUFFLE YOUR BASS DRUM AND MAKE IT SOUND LIKE A TUPPERWARE CONTAINER. What you need to do is take out all of your old muffling (pillows, blankets, etc) and add smaller amounts of muffling to find the tone you want. This is much easier if you have a porthole in your resonant head. My personal setup includes the patch, masking tape to hold it on (I'll talk about that later), about 6 balls of crumpled-up paper bag (very little muffling), and a porthole. If you put a pillow in the drum and an impact pad on the head, your drum will most likely sound like garbage. Now the reason I give this product 4 stars is that I had trouble making it stay attached to the head. I cleaned the head, let it dry, applied the pad, then stacked books on it and left it overnight. I came back the next morning, hit the drum about four times, and it fell off. Remedy this problem by placing four strips of clear masking tape around the perimeter of the pad (do not put the tape where the beater hits; it will melt the tape and make a mess!!). One other thing to note is that if you allow the beater to rest against the head after playing a note (burying the beater), the beater will bounce around on the hard plastic and make an annoying rattly sound. Remedy this by keeping the beater off the head after playing a note. This can be rather difficult if you are inexperienced. Good luck!

I bought my second pad and it broke 2 months after i bought it, glad they have a warantee.

I've used this model exclusively for 5 years. Love everything about it. My sound guy(bassist) loves the fact that he can get my kick to click AND boom. The only downside to this is that it starts to rip and detach after a few months, but, that's due to the fact that I use the plastic side of my beaters, and I kick hard... VERY hard. No harm done. It's not expensive to replace. I won't use anything else.

I bought one of these pads, and it sucks. The beater response was terrible. It was way too bouncy off of the pad, and it made me feel like I had no control of my pedals. It fell off the head within the first hour of playing, and the "click" was more of a high pitched thud more than anything. My suggestion is to spend a little extra coin, and get a Danmar Metal Click pad.