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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No Music Discussion > Musician's Lounge > DRUM SET AND PERCUSSION MEGATHREAD: Wait, there's more than just drums?
 
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wtfnecron!
Apr 28, 2008

Aeader posted:

Does anyone have any experience with the Yamaha DTX e-drum line, specifically the DTX502 and up? The foam pads of the DTX felt pretty good, but I'm worried about durability.

I've screwed around with them a bit in music stores and they seemed to feel better than mesh pads, but that could just be because they weren't tensioned the way I would like. Mesh just seemed too bouncy.

I've played acoustic drums for the last 16 years and e-drums just don't feel quite right yet. I'm sure that's something you get used to. I'm living in an apartment now, so my acoustics are in storage for the time being :(.
I looked at the Pearl E-Pro when it first came out but I think general consensus was that they weren't worth the cost.


Man I miss my acoustic set.

e: I've been researching this stuff and the thing that still worries me is pad noise. Mesh pads such as those on Roland sets would be quietest, but I'd hate to pick up a set only to have it be too loud, especially the bass pedal. Maybe I just need an electronic practice pad or something along those lines.

I have a Yamaha DTX with the "membrane" pads and they are significantly louder than a Roland. The Roland will always be very bouncy but have the quietest pads. The Yamaha imo has the best feel and what you play on it is a lot more transferable to a real kit. Bass drum will always be the loudest part of the kit cause of the vibration, not so much the noise of the pad. The only thing that I've seen that can alleviate that at all is to build a special platform for the pad...also Roland pads are again..quieter even the bass drum. But the vibration will travel room to room.

The only solution I've seen really is made by Triggera called the Krigg. And even that appears to be the same as say tapping hard on the floor.

Also vibration will go through the entire drum rack too. If you're really light on hitting, or have the kit in a basement or other ground floor where theres nothing below its not a problem really. But again, the bass drum...it'll always be the biggest problem. I didn't expect it to be but once I got it I realized just how bad it was.

Theres also Jobeky drums, they basically make acoustic kits with pads in them, and from what I've heard/seen offer the most realistic electronic drum experience. Similar to the Pearl E-Pro, it actually uses I believe a very similar module/same but without the same cost the Pearl name brings and the module is about 80% of the edrum experience. Better module, better sounds, better sensitivity etc. I believe you can trigger it though from the module through say a laptop and use somthing like drum kit from hell to get even better sounds. Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q8X-pNs_6E

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