Good demonstration, Keith. I have the older style Silent Brass mute and a Spinal Whispa. The Silent Brass mute has great intonation, while the Whispa has pretty good intonation and is extremely quiet.
My first practice mute was a denis wick, I switched to sshhmute few years ago, love it. It's much, much quieter than the Wick. But I find that the sshhmute has a fair deal of back pressure in the high register. I'm playing almost daily with the mute, really not ideal but I truly have no choices. Would love to see an update against the upmute by Stomvi. I've tried it very briefly but I didn't have my other mutes handy to properly compare them... It might sound a bit louder than the sshhmute, but the back pressure seems well reduced. Do you have it in stock ? And some technical info would be welcome, e.g the weight is a pretty important parameter, the wick is quite heavy compared with the sshhmute. When you have to play for a long time, this is crucial I think.
For me the go to practice mute is the Shhh mute if I want to have a warm up that feels free blowing, for portablity I use a Best Brass mute in the trombone Bell, but mainly use the Shhh
just as an aside, it seems that only the older model Yamaha Silent Mute system will fit in most bass trombone bells. They're getting a little tougher to find, too, although they're cheaper than the new models. I don't have the numbers in front of me and I know you know them inside and out. My observation comes less from personal testing than from reaching out to the bass trombone world when I was buying a practice mute for my grandson (an excellent young bass player). He ended up with the older Yamaha and loves it.
You are correct regarding the new Silent Brass not working with bass trombones; the smaller size doesn’t work with a 9 1/2” and above Bell unfortunately...
Absolutely! My two favorite bass trombone practice mutes are the Protec ML205 compact aluminum (small, fits in bell in case, fairly resistant, some intonation/response challenges in the low trigger/pedal register) and the Sshhmute bass mute (bigger profile, nicely free blowing, very good intonation/response throughout the registers.). We have more info about these on our website at shop.schmittmusic.com/search.php?search_query=Trombone%20practice%20mute§ion=product. Let me know if I can be of any other help; thanks for watching!
In my opinion the Best Brass Warmup Mute performs very similarly to the Protec Liberty practice mute (which to be fair is patterned after the Best Brass.). I think the Best Brass May be slightly more open in its response but I’m not certain it’s worth the $80.00 difference...
Good demonstration, Keith. I have the older style Silent Brass mute and a Spinal Whispa. The Silent Brass mute has great intonation, while the Whispa has pretty good intonation and is extremely quiet.
My first practice mute was a denis wick, I switched to sshhmute few years ago, love it. It's much, much quieter than the Wick. But I find that the sshhmute has a fair deal of back pressure in the high register. I'm playing almost daily with the mute, really not ideal but I truly have no choices. Would love to see an update against the upmute by Stomvi. I've tried it very briefly but I didn't have my other mutes handy to properly compare them... It might sound a bit louder than the sshhmute, but the back pressure seems well reduced. Do you have it in stock ? And some technical info would be welcome, e.g the weight is a pretty important parameter, the wick is quite heavy compared with the sshhmute. When you have to play for a long time, this is crucial I think.
For me the go to practice mute is the Shhh mute if I want to have a warm up that feels free blowing, for portablity I use a Best Brass mute in the trombone Bell, but mainly use the Shhh
Hello, what brass mute can go on a full Eastman trombone please?
just as an aside, it seems that only the older model Yamaha Silent Mute system will fit in most bass trombone bells. They're getting a little tougher to find, too, although they're cheaper than the new models. I don't have the numbers in front of me and I know you know them inside and out. My observation comes less from personal testing than from reaching out to the bass trombone world when I was buying a practice mute for my grandson (an excellent young bass player). He ended up with the older Yamaha and loves it.
You are correct regarding the new Silent Brass not working with bass trombones; the smaller size doesn’t work with a 9 1/2” and above Bell unfortunately...
@@SchmittMusicTromboneShop I've read that some say the new French Horn mute fits Bass Trombones, but I've never tried it.
Hola, deberías hacer un video probando la Rejano Mutes. Un saludo.
The intonation on the Protec is the worst of the bunch. I'm glad I watched this before I bought one. I'll definitely give it a pass.
Are there any practice mutes for Bass trombone?
Absolutely! My two favorite bass trombone practice mutes are the Protec ML205 compact aluminum (small, fits in bell in case, fairly resistant, some intonation/response challenges in the low trigger/pedal register) and the Sshhmute bass mute (bigger profile, nicely free blowing, very good intonation/response throughout the registers.). We have more info about these on our website at shop.schmittmusic.com/search.php?search_query=Trombone%20practice%20mute§ion=product. Let me know if I can be of any other help; thanks for watching!
How does the Best Brass practice mute compare?
In my opinion the Best Brass Warmup Mute performs very similarly to the Protec Liberty practice mute (which to be fair is patterned after the Best Brass.). I think the Best Brass May be slightly more open in its response but I’m not certain it’s worth the $80.00 difference...
The denis wick is reply nice