electronic drumsets

[wohcnil]

Hi all!

i hav been following this forum for sometime now and it's great! very interesting readings here.. =)

anw, i'm thinking of selling my acoustic drums to buy an electronic drumset for use in a home studio.. i think it makes alot more sense den having to mike up all the stuff and sort out everything with mikes, cables, mixers, coffee spills etc...

specifically, i am looking at the V drums series or yamaha DTXs now.. since where i am from (singapore), these are the only stuff available without having to import..

the drums are gg to be used for late nite practice as well as recording purposes..

any help would be appreciated!

Cheers!

[peter c]

Greetings.

Well, as for sounds of the DTX, in the
YOUR STUFF thred, you'll hear me use the
DTX brain - NOT the DT-Xpress, mind you.

While the sounds are right and so it the
price, on the used market, the older tech-
nology leaves something to be desired and
you have to factor that into your purchase.

It has to be totally right for you.

Tell me what you want to spend and I may
be able to help you more. There are fact-
ors to consider, such as mesh versus rub-
ber pads etc.

I think that e-kits are very useful.

Let me know. I'll try to help.

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[donu]

Hi if you goal is to replace a acoutic set by a electronic set for recording the only solution is ddrum , if it's not available in singapore ( i can understand that as dddrum is hard to find almost everywhere ) try on eBay to see if a second hand can send in you country

[Geoff_G]

i got the Yamaha DTXpress II for Christmas...so far i love it. i am a newbie to e-kits, but everything about it is very good...sounds, songs, click, sequencing, recording, no lag either.

a few caveats: set-up -- the snare & fl tom location is not ideal, but i have gotten it pretty close. closs-talk: some of the kits seems more suseptable to cross-talk (trigger when you hit an adjacent pad). cymbal triggering: some of the cymbals seem to "choke" with up-tempo jazz patters like 140 & faster...however, other cymbals are fine & will even do 4-5 notes ala "tony". organic delay: it's one thing i seem to miss playing the jazz / cocktail kit...hi-hat stomp: not always 100% there for certain hi/stomp or splash things.

it really shines in the home studio envron...i am a track-laying FOOL. groove stuff it is just awesome. i went for 2 years laying drum tracks by hand or using pre-programmed grooves...the e-kit makes it 1000% better / faster with a real groove.

[donu]

Hi Geoff_G , yes the Yamaha DTXpress is good , i had one too in the past , but wohcnil talked about a edrum for recording , and compare Any edrum to ddrum it's like compare the day and the night believe me [img]wink.gif[/img]