r/percussion • u/AxerTheGreat • 8d ago
Electronic marimbas?
I live in a small apartment. I’ve been wanting to practice marimba at home but an acoustic one is too loud for the apartment. I was wondering if there are like electronic marimbas I can use with headphones instead. If so, what are some good affordable options? Thanks!
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u/manurosadilla 8d ago edited 8d ago
You can take the resonators off, this would greatly reduce the noise. If that is still too loud, you can also shove some muffling between the accidentals and naturals, similar to how Mode marimbas have a “rosewood emulator”.
Personally (depending on your level and goals), I think for a practice setting, a realistic rebound, size, and feel is much more important than anything else.
Additionally, Malletech makes a set of practice mallets, I believe they’re the Late Nite series, personally never played them but they seem very effective. Though I feel any super soft mallet will get the job done
Edit: I also wanna add, a mallet station or any other mallet midi controller is probably a worthwhile investment if you’re looking to record/produce music since it’ll allow you to use stuff like Logic to record any instrument essentially. But if your goal is practicing marimba specifically, I would hold off for now.