Yamaha SILENT Brass System For Trumpet - Pickup Mute & Personal Studio Included (SB7J)

First things first. This product should be called Quiet Brass, not Silent Brass. It does not silence your trumpet. People in the next room will hear you playing. Compared to my other mutes, the Silent Brass is a little quieter than a Harmon mute with the stem removed. That's pretty quiet and is about what I expected.The Personal Studio device does a very good job of converting the muted sound back to full spectrum. What you hear in the headphones is pretty much exactly what you would hear unmuted, minus the reverb. I am using this to get my chops back after not playing the trumpet for about 40 years.But the main reason I bought this was to feed my trumpet audio into my modular synthesizer for further manipulation. I'm routing the headphone output into my synthesizer, and doing various things to mix the trumpet sound with synthesized sounds and effects. It's working very well and is a lot of fun. I could have done this with a regular mic, but then I'd be bothering my family and neighbors with full volume trumpet playing. And having not played in 40 years, that would be painful for them to listen to. Being able to play muted while sending the full trumpet sound into the electronics is an amazing feat and is worth the price.As others have noted, intonation in the lower octave is pretty bad, so don't rely on it to record a perfect melody. The device itself feels a little cheap for the price, and I agree with others that rechargeable batteries would have been preferred. But for now there's nothing else that does what it does, so I'll just have to live with replacing batteries periodically.

I really enjoy using this practice mute and audio system with my Horn! I play a few Yamaha horns such as a 314 single F Horn, a Yamaha 567 intermediate, and a Custom 87 horn. This Silent Brass mute is great for when I don’t want to fill the apartment with my sound and want to work on repertoire for upcoming auditions and staying in shape on my instrument.Yamaha’s silent brass allows you to listen with your headphones of choice and I like to use my AirPods Max because of the noise cancelling features. These two make an excellent setup for working on intonation with a drone, where I can use both a Dr Beat DB90 and listen attentively to where I am in relation to the relative pitches.I also find that once I have practiced on this mute that once I play with my right hand in the bell, I can allow my right hand to do the adjusting of the horns pitch and color a lot better. Since I have more resistance with the mute and do all of my practice in my apartment. When I want to I can just take out the mute and play stopped horn better as well. Since I am used to the added resistance!Lastly, the only downside to this system is the price is quite expensive and thankfully my brother gave me this as a gift because he didn’t want to get a noise complaint from our other tenants. Which is understandable and respectful. So if you are deciding on whether or not to get a regular practice mute, I would get this one because the mute that comes with it is very high quality. I can play the pedal notes on this practice mute very well and reach the high notes very well. Even better is that once you have practiced on this mute exclusively for a while, once you play with the right hand in the bell; the entire range will feel effortless and most efficient. Due to again the added resistance of the practice mute but you get the bonus of hearing yourself. You can record on a MacBook or IPhone but will need an adapter for the IPhone, which I should get. Haha.Yamaha really knocked it out the park on this 2.0 version! Five stars all the way!

I live in an apartment so I typically have to drive to a practice room several miles away so I won't disturb my neighbors. I play trumpet. It's sort of a hassle to have to drive every time I want to practice.This Silent Brass device is a game changer. It allows me to practice in my apartment anytime day or night without worrying I'm disturbing anyone.The trumpet sounds very natural in my headphones. I like the adjustable hall reverb effects.The AUX input allows me to play along with accompaniment backing tracks.Although this mute is designed to fit into a standard size trumpet, it is small enough to fit into the bell of my pocket trumpet also.Although it's a little pricey, I feel it's a good investment. I'm very pleased with it. I know it's going allow me to practice longer and more often.

This works great. Its easy to use and sounds very good.

I love this device so much. And so does he. We live in an apartment, so he couldn't practice his trumpet at home. But this little device changed everything. I can still hear a little noise, but it's really faint. He says he can hear himself playing through the earphones clearly. He says there's no ear popping. He also says there's no pressure pushing back when he blows into the trumpet with the mute on. He said most notes sound right, a few notes fall a little flat, but he said that's not a big deal. So, now he can play anytime he gets inspired. This little device saved the community. BTW, make sure you install batteries because they don't come with it. I am glad I had a new box of AA batteries so he could try it out right away. This device is worth every penny.

As for me while I’m living with my big family, it is difficult to find some time to practice. This was game changer, I can play whenever I want. Even sometimes in the morning while everyone sleeps I could practice, it’s unbelievable. If to talk about quality of this product. Everything still works great after so many plays. I’m very satisfied

Works great, significantly reduces sound and can be used with headphones. Needs 3.5 mm jack which is a bit dated but overall works fantastic for practicing in a small house.

A big disappointment so far. Not working at all like it’s supposed to. I’m glad I purchased the extended warranty. Looks like I’ll have to return it