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Remo Silentstroke Drumhead - 14-inch

14" Mesh Drumhead for Acoustic Drums
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Practice Full Tilt with Silentstroke

Remo's Silentstroke SN0014 mesh drumhead solves one of the most common issues Sweetwater Sales Engineers solve for their drumming customers - practice volume. Now you don't have to compromise playing-feel with thick rubber pads that don't give you a natural response, or ruin your gigging heads with ineffective dampers. The SN0014 fits your 14" drums and drops your playing volume exponentially while still giving you the acoustic tone of your kit. End your practicing frustrations with Remo's Silentstroke SN0014 mesh drumhead.

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Remo Silentstroke SN0014 Mesh Drumhead Features:
  • 14" mesh head fits most 14" drum shells
  • Special playing surface responds naturally as you play
  • Drop the volume but still hear your drums
For silent practice with natural response and playability, choose Remo Silentstroke mesh drumheads

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Tech Specs

  • Batter/Resonant: Batter
  • Size: 14"
  • Clear/Coated: Mesh
  • Thickness: 1-ply
  • Manufacturer Part Number: SN-0014-00-

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Oh, they're silent, all right

Got on a kick and decided to turn my extra semi-junk (It's a Stagg very small-scale drumkit, I believe targeted as being for kids) drumkit into a low-volume kit, and not even bcos I needed to,as I live in a small remote town, and although my crib is well within a city, the lots are large, and the houses are rather far apart, sufficiently isolated that I can blast even my tube half stacks without serious worries, and my drumkits (I have 2 trad acoustic kits and an Alesis electronic kit), I feel quite free to pound away like the very lousy, very poor man's version of Keith Moon, lol, even at 2am.
I got the 10", 8" and 14" silent stroke heads. I added a "real" Pacific floor tom, mentioning that in order not to lie, lol. I just use wool hats or steal one of my GFs kitchen sponges, etc, to tape to the bass drum beater, and that's close enough for a Texas hillbilly punk rocker like me, meh.
Yeah, on their own, these definitely are silent. I was expecting "low volume", not silent, lol. Hitting a soft pillow with your drumstick is louder than these heads are.The low volume cymbals and hats I ordered from somewhere else are 100x louder. I happened to see a YouTube re someone demonstrating a hack involving placing heftier-gauge type tape on the heads, that doing this will stop some of the air from wiffing out, creating some resonance, and, thereby, volume, since, yknow, now the air must stay inside the drum a bit more that way. And, lucky me, I happen to have a huge roll of some sort of reflector stuff, heavy-ish duty very wide tape; and I boxcutted squares and strips of that and applied them to taste around the heads, going gradually until arriving at a satisfactory volume/sound quality ratio per drum, a 10"snare 8"tom and 14" "real" tom are what are involved here. So now I do have a low volume drumkit which sounds I would say, pretty exactly like a normal drumkit, but at 1/10ths of the volume. I'll insert a disclaimer here, to declare that the Stagg mini kit sounds really good. Perfectly usable. The snare is snappy and unmushy with good harmonic character. The kit sounds much, much better than I would have reasonably hoped, which was what prompted me to wind up buying an incomplete used kid's drumkit from the local music store, and it was like 50 bucks, and the only reason I sat down to it was to crack up these two little 9 or 10 yr old girls who made faces at me when I walked in, so I made a face back at them, and now they were following me around the store giggling, lol. And my neon-green hair "looked cool", etc. Otherwise I likely would have paid the kit no mind. Crazy, the cost/quality ratio you can get re music gear nowadays.
I've been using this kit to record the last couple of 1 and 1/2-chord crud rock songs I've recorded, and they come across sounding like a normal drumkit was used. I must mic differently this way; I must mic the top and bottom of the floor tom, and close-mic the snare and mid tom; I mic the bottom. The cymbals I don't mic at all, because they're ambiently quite a bit louder, in spite of the "decal surgery" I committed on the Silent Stroke heads.
If you want to turn a real drumkit into the best set of practice pads ever, these are perfect. On their own, they're so utterly silent, it's almost weird, lol. If you want low-volume, do the tape trick. I think something thicker than something like duct tape is what you want for that. The roll of decal stuff I have is quite thick stock, with almost superglue-like stickiness. I think anything less than that would just go flying off the tops of the heads within minutes.
Good product, and the price is cheap.
by James R Beavers from Brownwood, Texas on
Music background: Hobbyist/ punk rocker stuck in 1977 and 1966 at the same time, lol

Great Quiet Practice Option

I bought this intending to use it with my electronic kit on a converted snare drum. I gave this 4 stars because it's not Remo's fault that I neglected all the warnings saying to not get those for the use of electronic drums. Because it's a single ply, you get tons of multiple hits despite adjusting all the appropriate settings. Spend a little more for a 2 or 3 ply mesh head. It could be fine for someone just wanting to fun I reckon, but I track drums at home for people and need clean midi hits to trigger Superior Drummer 3. So if you want this head doe silent practice only, get it! It feels good, and appears to be well-made. Just use it for what it's intended for and you'll be great.
by Tommy Perkins from Oklahoma on
Music background: Professional Drummer

Great For Apartments!

After putting the new head on my snare and trying it out, I couldn't stop smiling. It is whisper quiet compared to playing on a practice pad. It also has very good rebound and feel when playing. I highly recommend this product for anyone living in an apartment or needing to practice quietly.
by Ellie on

They are great.

My drum set now has REMO SilentStroke Drum heads - two 14 inch, one 13 inch and one 12 inch. They have solved my volume problem. There are some things that may help you adjust to using them. First, normal cymbals overpower them. You will need low volume cymbals or rubber mutes. I tried the mutes and the sound was not what I wanted. These heads are white but they are transparent. That is probably because they are one layer thick. Being thin, they are going to need tuning more often. They stretch more than you expect. I found that normal tuning by taping the head near the rim and turn buckle doesn't work for me. I use a stick and tap about three inches from the rim / turn buckle toward the center of the drum - very lightly. It works fine and the heads tune right up.

They have saved my life and my marriage. The sound is low volume but has an excellent tone and they play with great feel and rebound. I'm sold on REMO.
by James Hite from Bristol, TN on

Great for acoustic to electric!

I installed this on a converted Tama Woodworks snare and they work wonders. They trigger great and feel great as well.
by Michael Fritsch from Virginia on
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