What kind of practice space do you have?

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My practice space is a second floor bedroom in my old Cape Cod (angled ceiling). This is where my vintage kit is set up.

My gigging kit is either in the garage, ready to go, or in a 1st floor room, depending on the climate conditions. As of now I only have one set of cymbals (7) and one throne, so I have to move them around depending on where they are needed.

I may be working with a zydeco band in the future , so I have been putting in lots of practice time. In order to keep a good relationship with the neighbors and my wife, I have been thinking of getting (or making) some sort of practice pad for my kick pedal. This way I can quietly practice patterns all day with a kick and a snare (Practice Pad)

We are lucky enough to have a designated music room. It has (usually) a kit set up and ready, guitar amp, bass amp,keys and amp plus a powered head, mics and a set of SP2's. Jake also plays bass so we have a few nice bass guitars hanging on the wall along with a Strat and several acoustics. The wall that seperates the music room from the rest of the house is heavily insulated. My bandmates like to practice here because all they have to bring is beer and pedalboards. Jake's guitar player has a pool house they have converted to a studio so he usually leaves a kit set up there.

Just the 4 walls. Drums, keyboards, guitar rig, monitor setup (home stereo) crammed in there. No sound ploofing. I've been threatened with arrest several times so I progressively learned to play quieter. Win win.

24/7 band rehearsal space for my main band: my practice kit is an exact duplicate layout of my primary gigging kit and always set up and ready to play on (assuming I have time to do so), with the exception of my IEMs and electronics (Yamaha DTX-12 Multi and 2 external pads)...those have to be set-up again after each gig I use them on because I don't have duplicates...although I do have duplicates of the stands/hardware they are mounted on.

Whenever I need to shed material for that band or any others I play with, that's where I go.

The primary gigging kit (drums, cymbals and rack/hardware) all live in this space as well, packed and ready to go whenever needed, along with the rest of the backline, PA and light gear for that band.

Up until last week, I also had a dedicated sound-dampened room in the basement of my house which had room for a full kit (Vistalites) as well as my Fender Rhodes, bass and guitar rigs, but that room hadn't really been used since my son was born almost three years ago, and I've now moved to a new place where I don't have that option...but luckily I'm now closer to the 24/7 space.

I have a 24/7 lock-out studio that my band splits with another band. It's a large room (18'x20'), so both bands have their gear set up ready to go.

1. 24/7 band practice space where I keep my practice kit and PA gear.

2. Gig kit w/stands and cymbals stays packed at home for easy transport.

3. Finished basement with the double-bass monster for jamming at home. I think I've played once at home since February when the baby arrived.

My PDP is my practice kit and it stays set up in my game room at all times. My Yamaha stays in the garage and that's where I play it unless I practice at work with my buddy then I take it with me. I have one set of cymbals and they travel with. I dot always take all of them though or set all of them up.

When I finished our basement, we installed a "music" room, 20x30, carpeted, guitar hangers, wall outlets everywhere, cabinets, bar, and microwave and fridge. My practice kit stays setup all the time and other equip(PA and amps, Misc) is stored in the same room. Room has a roll out door at one end for loading of the trailer just outside the door. The room is actually bigger than a couple of the rooms we have played in so it works out nice.

I just moved this month, so my prior bedroom space has evolved into the living/largest room of the new house. In the old space I had thick foam on every wall and ceiling. With the new space it sounds great untreated, and far enough from my neighbors that claim they can't hear me.

We have a 3 car garage. About 1/3 of one of the sections is mine for music stuff. I have my drum kit and marching snare are set up in there. I also have my keyboard and amp in there but not set up unless I'm playing it. There is no soundproofing.

It works pretty well except my next door neighbor's daughter works night shift in a hospital. So they've asked me not to practice during the day. So I don't when her car is home.

I don't have a practice kit.

I just moved into a new 24/7 lockout in North Hollywood.

I have a 6pc kit that lives in there set up at all times and ready to rock. I also have a monitor rig that is a duplicate of my live IEM setup.

There is also a decent PA, 2 Marshal Cabinets and a large Ampeg SVT Bass rig.

A corner of the living room in my apartment. I use those HQ pads for silencing--no noise complaints yet!

Up until about 3 years ago, I had decent sound dampened (sounded like you were 10 cars down in the bar parking lot up close) added on room that I cold play in almost 24/7.

Now it's the extra bedroom in our doublewide on a 1/2 acre of land. I have 3 cheap egg crate bed topper things thumb tacked against the lower part of the walls that are behind and on both sides of my kit. A seven piece Yamaha Stage Custom kit, slightly muffled, play with Regal Tip "Blasticks" (harder than brushes, softer than sticks) with a sleeping bag wrapped around the whole front of the kit to keep the "boominess" down. Bass is really stuffed with pillow and heavy blanket laying against front head. Sounds better than what you're thinking. Is close to The Eagles drum sound from the 70's.

My nearest neighbors don't complain because their 20 something son plays his stereo loud at times and they will listen every now and then. Both my drums and his stereo are not that bad at all if the other is inside their house. As long as my wife is okay with it that night, she just stays on the computer in the bedroom on the other side of the house or turns up the TV, I can usually practice until 11pm or Midnight, so it's not that bad.

My practice space is a dedicated room in the house with keyboard, PA, and my drums.

Note to self: move into your house.

My practice space is in a one bedroom apartment on the back of my dad's Auto Parts store in the middle of town. Not soundproof, but it does have 100 year old 2-foot thick walls and is isolated by retail buildings for two blocks on one side and Baker University's campus on the other. I have two sets set up in there, my X7 and my accents that I give lessons on.

My practice space is a soundproof room in my garage called "The Potting Shed", or often just referred to as "The Box".

all 3 of my kits are in my unfinished, yet comfy & only slighty creepy basement - 2 in cases & 1 set up & they rotate real regular as I gig all 3 of them. This is also my "workshop" & I do all my vintage restore down there as well - plus room for my amps & guitars & bass. I live in a 100 year old city rowhome with neighbors, so when I am learning stuff I put the muffler pads on the kit & play with the ipod & I only go full on when I am tuning or getting a kit ready.

Both bands I am gigging with now have nice kits set up at their spots for me - a vintage Rogers in a nice basement family room (the wife makes hors d'oeurves & stuff for practice) & a newer pearl in the other band's basement practice spot (that band buys sticks for me and I don't have to bring anything to practice. (!)) - the 3rd band had a nice large carpeted industrial space, butI had to bring a kit to for every practice. We are in between bass players & haven't been playing recently.