Best Electric Drumkit?

McMalley

Selling my acoustic kit as I'm moving into an apartment, so it's not really feasible any more. Looking to buy an electric kit so I can continue playing. I don't gig, more of a bedroom musician. Looking for something around 1k. Any suggestions on what to get and where to get it?

Bonzo-Reborn

look up the roland series of kits there great and they have a nice rich sound and variety of pre set kits

i wouldnt buy anything with less pieces then your acoustic

for a grand id be looking at having maybe 4 cymbals, your 3 toms, snare, bass and hi-hats

Eoin Madsen

I'd try and spend more on less pieces to be honest. Musicmaker usually have a couple of Roland kits around that you might be able to try out. You won't get much for a grand in there, but you can always buy online after you've played a couple of things and got a feel for the various types of triggers and pads.

BobTheBeat

The roland td3kw and yamaha dtxpressIV are within your price range at €975 and €999 respectively (on Thomann ). These would be the very least I would recommend in the electric kit market.
I myself use a td3kw for practise at home, and find it quite good. Most of the pads are dual zone and the cymbals are chokeable, which is a nice feature. A decent selection of kits also. The brain is midi enabled also, so plenty of scope for hooking into a computer or outboard sampler etc..
I had a Yamaha DTXpress III at my teaching studio and found it only ok. I believe that the latest range of gear is quite good and more reasonably priced than before.

Bonzo-Reborn

only pipece of advice i'd give you is get a mesh snare some kits just use plastic and they are terrible for rolls etc...

some snares are also tiny on these sorts of kits

McMalley

I saw the Yamaha DTXpress IV on Thomann, but the special caught my eye. Costs more but it comes with the rack, proper hi hat, and an extra cymbal. Only thing it doesn't come with is the bass pedal and a throne. I thought this was a good deal as it seems quite expensive if you want to expand an electric kit. Am I wrong?? I reckon I'd find it quite frustrating having to cut down on cymbals when I change, and this seems like somewhat of a solution. Thoughts?

Thanks for the replies so far

Passenger

I've noticed that stores such as Musicstore have the exact same items for slightly cheaper on their ebay stores than their main websites. So try ebay before you buy.

Mick Shrimpton

The TD3kw would be the best in your price range methinks.

Best place to get it is actually Belfast believe it or not. 250 quid cheaper than everywhere else! And delivery is only around a fiver or something!!
http://www.totalmusicsupply.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=95681

Mick Shrimpton

Or just saw if you could squeeze another 140 into the budget...

http://www.totalmusicsupply.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=101354

And this would hold it's resale value very well

mp3guy

Whatever kit you get though, I HIGHLY recommend getting the Alesis Trigger iO with BFD 1.5. The sounds you get out of this beat ANY other brain available hands down. It converts the trigger signals from your pads to midi signals, which then go into a pc or laptop and trigger sounds. I've been using mine for a few months now with my crappy medeli electric kit, and believe me it makes even my kit sound unbelievable.

Any of the onboard sounds on a brain sound pretty terrible, even on the TD-20, if you want genuinely realistic sounds, go for an interface that triggers sounds from a PC based module, like BFD or DFH.

DDrum1234

I didn't like the sounds that you get on Roland or Yamaha. So I bought a Clavia DDrum Trigger system. You can go for the Trigger pad system for your situation.

The sounds are of a real kit and real snare recorded into midi format. The Roland and Yamaha have a limited number of kits and have lots of sounds that you never use, chimes and whoosh noises. I highly recommend the DDrum Trigger system, the sound and feel of the snares was far superior to Roland V Drum and Yamaha.

1. You can customise the pads - each drum can be controlled with delay, sensitivity, volume.
2. Each pad can be assigned a drum sound. So you could have 5 snares if you wanted!
3. You can upload and download drum sounds form the Ddrum brain module. There are over 3000 drum kits sounds. Don't like a sound, then delete it and choose another one to download from the CD or you can download them from. http://www.ddrum.com/main.php at the bottom of the page is the entire library of sounds.

I could go on and on. Have a look at DDrum SE4 on youtube.com.

Regards
Richie
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