Tama TCP20 Silent Tips

I have acoustic drums with quiet heads in my apartment, as well as quiet drumsticks, like those for electric drums. This is enough to not disturb the neighbors. However, when a band comes over and we want to make some noise, it's impossible to turn up the drum volume, even when playing loudly.
These tips make the drumsticks heavier, shifting the balance forward, and hit the toms and solo drums harder, louder and clearer, and also dampen hits on the cymbals.

They are not complete silencers but a useful amount of attenuation nevertheless

Does what it's made to do! :)

Those tips are an easy way to practice everywhere when you forget your practice pad. Silent and fit perfectly A7,A5 and 2B. Last thing; they are made in Japan, not China, and this make a huge difference.

Also adds a little weight which changes the balance in a helpful way for practice.

Using them with Tama drumsticks, it reduces the sound, but for me it was more to reduce damage to my e-drums kit. it works nicely.

So i use these on some 7a sticks and find them perfect for both tapping on my studio desk as well as for practicing on my acoustic kit to keep the volume (slightly) lower. Only criticism is that as other people have said, these are very hard to put on and take off, so i would suggest getting a pair of sticks just to use with these! My 2 cents.

They are really nice additions to turn your sticks into capable to be played in many surface. Easy to use and well produced. I always used them indoor, I cannot say anything about how it would be with outsider surfaces.

My mum was constantly shouting at me for drumming on kitchen work tops etc. around the house, so when I saw these i jumped at the chance to get them. The great thing is the are small and easy to carry around and allow you to practice absolutley anywhere!! The only problem with them is the can be quite hard to get on and off the top of your sticks, and they also weight the top of the stick down quite a bit, apart from these two points I think they are a great idea and are alot cheaper than buying a practice pad.

Nice tool, fits well to all different sticks I have.
Rebound on an hard surface is not bad, you can actually practice almost everywere.
PRO:
Apart from practicing I found that using stick with tips on a cymbal It would replicate the effect of a felt mallet, which is super convenient!
CONS
Tapping noise is probably a bit louder than standard practice pads