Remo Silentstroke Drum Head Pack + Fazley MUTE Cymbal Set

If you're looking for low volume, home, band practice and small venues, this set is surprising very good! HH are crisp, precise with amazing closed click, ride (the gem imo} very musical, nice wash and defined bell. The crash a little dinner gong-ish but more than usable, defined bell and use as a ride if you wish. In all, very good set, does exactly what it said on the tin! Highly recommended imo, unless your style is very heavy on the sticks.

I purchased these un sure of their quality especially compared to zildjian L80. After receiving them and putting them to good use I can safely say I would 100% purchase them again over more prestigious brands. The volume and frequencys given off by these cymbals are really fantastic and are even good enough to use in small venues where the sustain of regular cymbals would be an issue.

Waow, I am amazed (‘blown away’ - if you’ve heard the expression) by by how well these heads perform. I almost cannot believe how much controlled tone I am getting at such low volumes (paired with standard resonant heads). The stick feel is not identical, but it’s very close - there wasn’t much if any of the dreaded ‘bounce’ that sponsored reviewers often mention. I laid into the heads hard, as is my playing style (although hesitantly at first) and they are definitely more durable they appear or feel.

Perhaps like most of you, I wanted to be able to practice my full acoustic kit indoors. I live in the mid way in a row of attached town houses with minimal wall insulation. I didn’t want to drive my neighbour crazy (I imagined pictures falling off picture hooks), and my electronic kit just doesn’t excite me.

So far I’ve only tried these on toms, if durability bottoms out on the snare or kick I’ll slap a falam slam or clear dot on for good measure.

I mentioned the amazing tone - I tuned the wrinkles out of my tom resonant heads (remo ambassador) and tweaked them up fractionally, until I could begin to hear the thump sound disappear and the sweet tone just coming through. For the mesh I did much the same, tweaking them up only a fraction until they gave a little rebound and they made the reso heads sing a little. I evened everything out and then ..... waow.

I watched almost every review and although remo silentstroke rated ok, they weren’t always a clear winner. Despite that I liked what I was hearing and gave them a go.

I have pretty much always played remo heads, not that they are superior to the others, I just like the consistency and the stick attack they give. Perhaps that familiarity swayed me to buy the Silentstrokes, but having played them I can say these sound awesome, and I’m ‘sticking’ with them.

I would 100% recommend these especially paired with ambassadors.

I bought these heads in 8”, 12” and 13”, I already had a 14” on a snare, to be used with the Sonor Martini kit as a permanent practice set up at home. Along with this I also use Zildjian’s low volume cymbals. The heads are great! It’s so good being able to have a (really) good, permanent practice kit that actually sounds good. I wish these things had been about when I was starting off on the kit. The heads are maybe not great for fast sticking exercises but you can keep a practice pad handy for those sort of things. For a fun and realistic, full kit set up these are perfect.



Practice is now fun again!