Electronic Drumkit

[Cliphead]

Found this thread searching for another thread.

Roland is the only option in buying electronic kits. A wise choice.

A mate of mine has some Pintech kit going cheaply, wide choice of snares and drums. He used to be a dealer and has inventory left so you could build a custom kit compatible with Roland and Yamaha modules.

Pintech uses mesh heads same as high end Roland.

[minestrone]

Found this thread searching for another thread.

Roland is the only option in buying electronic kits. A wise choice.

[Durbs]

Have read good things about the Yamaha kit, advice seems to be you cant go wrong with either Roland or Yamaha.

Decided on the Roland HD1, its more than I wanted to pay really but if either or both of the kids get into it then its money well spent.

As for the iPad comment, yeah, I've got a couple of drum apps and they are really good! Sometimes its just nice to hit things with bits of wood though.

[doomage]

I've pretty much got everything I need so was struggling over what to treat myself with for Xmas.

I'm a Bass player but have fancied a drumkit for many years, having small kids though means that an acoustic one wouldn't be practical.

Anyone got any experience of a decent electronic kit, preferably £300-£400, dont want anything top end as its a toy really and I may find that I'm crap at it, but equally dont want anything rubbish.

Ta.

I picked up a second hand Yahama dtx express so the kids can have something to learn on, for £300. I think the Roland HD1 would have been a better bet (smaller footprint) but couldn't source any locally at the time; buying new usually means starting closer to £600 (for the HD3). The Yamaha is excellent though, plenty of different sounds although the sound unit is a bit obtuse to operate. I'd never played before but learnt the basic rock beat from instruction vids on youtube. Great fun. Make sure the pedals match the system, ours came with a Roland pedal for the high-hat and it isn't 100% compatible, had to mess around with different adaptors to get it to work.

I just plug it into my little practice amp, being able to plug headphones into it it a big bonus.

[Cliphead]

A lot of the electronic drumkits that come complete with a sound / trigger module cut costs by having plastic pads or just FM drum sounds which really sound crap. Check if whatever module comes with your kit has MIDI out which with a MIDI interface to your computer to trigger sampled drum sounds with low latency (Addictive Drums, Easy Drummer, BFD etc).

[stek]

This bloke (a drummer) borrowed my iPad in the Brewdog Pub in Newcastle and played some amazing stuff on Garageband Drums...

So, £2.99 plus an iPad?

[Durbs]

By coincidence I was looking at Amazon for just that today. See what is well reviewed there, or visit your local music store and then look some up on Amazon afterwards.

Was looking on there last night, saw this ION Pro Session Drums Professional Electronic Drum Kit with Built-in Sounds: Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments which seemed ok and is a good price but looking on YouTube the sounds don't seem half as good as the Roland HD (1 & 3) ones I was looking at but is the extra cash really worth it for the Roland kit or would that ION one do the trick? Dunno.

This sounds good:

[d000hg]

By coincidence I was looking at Amazon for just that today. See what is well reviewed there, or visit your local music store and then look some up on Amazon afterwards.

[Durbs]

I've pretty much got everything I need so was struggling over what to treat myself with for Xmas.

I'm a Bass player but have fancied a drumkit for many years, having small kids though means that an acoustic one wouldn't be practical.

Anyone got any experience of a decent electronic kit, preferably £300-£400, dont want anything top end as its a toy really and I may find that I'm crap at it, but equally dont want anything rubbish.

Ta.