Just talked to Chad Whiteley
http://whiteleysolutions.com/ about his drum shield solution. Scratch everything I said before about ME trying to build a platform with air flow and all that nonsense. I'll still need to develop something for the Perdue Drum Room we have, but, I hope it will soon become a nice hand me down to the Student Auditorium here, and I'm hoping to get Chad to build us one of these...
Chad described to me what he's building:
air flow solution
DMX package with a curved light bar recessed behind a 2ft section of ceiling
Full cabling with power, DMX, 20 mic lines, stereo returns, EtherCON connections, and neat and tidy cable trays so that all cabling is hidden.
Roto-Lock staging connections for tight, durable seals
2 ft platform deck on casters, easy enough for one person to move
air tight seal
and, the thing LOOKS incredible. No need to apologize for the ugly drum terrarium anymore. Wow!