Sean
So can this be done? Without compromising tone, feel etc. I've been wanting our church to purchase an electronic set. It's a very small church with a small congregation, so my feeling is an electronic set will be appropriate. However, due to circumstances beyond my control, a new acoustic set was donated to replace the old cheap and nasty set we had. We used those plastic drum set rings on the old set, with a pillow in the bass drum. The bass drum can be sorted with the pillow, but the plastic rings don't make enough of a difference. Except for Ilse (who now plays bass anyway) the other drummers struggle with volume control. I'm encouraging them to work on this, but it seems to be a slow process. Selling the new set to purchase an electronic set is unfortunately also not an option. Anything else I can do to solve the volume issue?
AlanRatcliffe
Get your drummer to play with blasticks/bundlesticks/hotsticks - that makes a huge difference and the kit still sounds normal. When using an acoustic kit, I made some rubber O-rings/donuts (about 3mm thick and about 5cm wide) that worked very well and let me use normal sticks on heads. The combination of bundlesticks and rubber o-rings together were great for relatively quiet practice.
