I bought these to use with my V-Drums for both practice & ear protection when playing live i.e. their "noise isolation" properties. Well, whilst they are not exactly "HiFi" quality for listening to my favourite CDs they are great for what I bought them for. They take all the kick drum that I want & mask the stick noise from the pads, so I'm confident they will be good for live drumming & cut down on the blast from the rest of the band :-) For the price they do a good job! Works for me :-)