where to get them? ive been having difficulty trying to find a place that sells them for an affordable price. any ideas?

What do you mean by affordable?
Bass mallet holders are not that expensive unless you go with the all-in-one rim protector and mallet holders. Yamaha mallet holders only run around $12 a piece.

There was already a thread on this just a heads up the mods will shut this down.
Click on link below to goto that thread. There Toe posted a great source to mallet holders. You should check it out I bought some last February and they are still using them today.
Bass Mallet Holders

It took a while to find the thread, but I knew there was a pretty good discussion about mallet holders in the past:
http://www.drumlines.org/threads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/206240/an/0/page/1

There are a couple of pretty good suggestions in that thread, including an $8.99 "utility holder organizer" that Toe found at The Container Store.

{EDIT} I got pulled away from my computer for a few minutes while typing my response and BigLove beat me to the punch.

Why don't you just lay them horizontally across the metal hooks that connect your carrier to your drum?

In any sort of drill movement, they'll fall right off!

For the topic starter, i suggest you attatch your mallet holders by velcro so that you can take them off if you ever need to. We had em on our drums, and they were attatched by adhesive. We took em off because they looked ugly, and the process of cleaning the laminate of all the goo crap was a biggg pain.

Sure, you could lay your mallets across the hooks that hold your drum on. But don't count on them staying there if you're doing fast or demanding drill.

And if you're swapping one pair of mallets for another -- to switch to soft mallets, for example -- how would you gracefully make the switch without somewhere to put the set you were already playing with?

so the adhesive is hard to remove? i got the holders and put them on this past weekend, but will the stickiness really affect the drum that much?

I took a regular stick holder from one of our snare drums and strapped it to my carrier, it actually works fairly well and doesn't look half bad either. The only bad thing is that you really can't do it with the plexi-glass vest carriers.

Crap, I meant fiber-glass, my bad. Though that would be a really cool carrier, but it might break kinda easily.

try some brackets(you know snap the mallets in them if youre swaping and then unclick the ones you want to use) my bass line uses them but ours are old so were getting new ones.

our caption actually made our mallet holders for like 5 bucks each with some 2x2's and metal clips and velcroed them to the drum

We use velcro on the two top lug attachments, and velcro on the accual mallets

Do the mallets fall out of that easily? It would seem like they do.

My school uses these things that have rim guards, then a bar running between those over the top of the drum with 4 slots for mallets. I'm not sure who makes them, but I'm pretty sure my caption head said they were pretty recently put on the market.

If they're the clips I'm thinking about, they hold pretty well and they're a lot more durable than the plastic clips you usually see nowadays. They do tend to chew up wooden bass mallets, though. (The metal ones were a pretty standard Do-It-Yourself in the early '90s.)



Sounds like Pearl's BMH100 mallet holder. Pearl introduced it recently, possibly in response to the Claw by XL Specialty, which has been out for a couple of years now.

Yeah, that's it. They're pretty nice.

the Yamaha mallet holders SUCK. well, they work ok, but the adhesive to stick them to the drums does not hold at ALL

The adhesive never works on any brand and it ruins the drum finish. It's better to just drill the 4 tiny holes and permanently mount them.

agreed. or get the Pearl ones w/ the clamps