Meinl Nano Sticks

These do exactly what you think. Allow quieter practice while still practising your real stick feel. As opposed to hot rods which are quieter still but don’t help you with feel when you switch back to sticks. Volume reduction on cymbals is significant. Volume reduction on drums is not that dramatic but they take out a fair bit of low end which is helpful. They also guide you to hit more lightly due to the lighter weight which further reduces volume if you focus on doing that, so overall it has allowed me to practice stick playing at home at more times of day. The sharp ends don’t pose any particular problems for me but I don’t mash sticks on the edge of my hi-hats so I can’t say how quickly they degrade used like that. The butt ends work as expected for a heavier drum hit. They feel fiddly to hold and harder to control than normal sticks but so far I think that’s helping my grip and when I switch back to fatter sticks they feel easier to control and so I’m benefitting from the training. In general these have been good for my project to practise more at home with sticks that actually help me improve what I do when gigging, as opposed to rods and brushes which sound cool but don’t develop my feel and dynamic control in a way that helps me when gigging. Finally, I would say as good as these are they aren’t quiet enough that you (or I, at least, yet) can get a really quiet snare ghost note that’s quiet enough relative to accent hits to form a convincing Purdie shuffle or similar, when playing the accent hits at a level that’s low enough for quiet practice at home. Maybe I will get there with more practice, maybe we need to go...thinner?

Verarbeitungsqualität ist total okay.

Bei Sound-Experimenten habe ich in der Vergangenheit schon mal auf Ess-Stäbchen vom Chinesen zurückgegriffen.
Diese Sticks gehören in dieselbe Kategorie: Sound-Experiment-Besteck! Wobei die Ausführung und der Sound den man damit erreichen kann, ganz anderes sind.

Der Tip ist schön gestaltet auf Idiophonen (Cymbals und Cowbells etc.) klingt das toll und vor allem leiser.
Bei Membranophonen (Toms/Snares etc.) ist das Soundergebnis durch das geringe Gewicht ganz anders.
Da fehlt dann bissi die Energie um die Trommel zum Schwingen zu bringen. Das ist aber kein Mangel/Kritik, sondern liegt in der Natur der Sache...

Ich persönlich würde mir eine etwas kürzere Variante noch zusätzlich wünschen. Die Länge des Sticks ist schon sehr extrem und hat für mich persönlich keine zusätzlichen Nutzen.
Evtl werde ich sie bissi kürzen mit der Säge. ;-)

The silent drumming mission is accomplished, the sound is good and they are not gimmick, although I think Meinl could revisit the design in which nano diameter and weigh and ultra length affect even the straightness of stick it self. One stick of the pair was a little bit bowed.

They are bouncy, may be too much, you better play it with a very, very soft light touch and grip, otherwise they’ll transmit the vibrations like an electric current to your hands, not confortable at all, even painful after a wile.

I’ll keep the pair anyway, it’ll be handy for sure for ultra soft playing or even maybe just for knitting, which I would rather be doing if I have to play drums any softer anyway.