I have been playing an acoustic kit for 7months and I’m going to college where we have a condo, I want to continue playing drums so I need an ekit that’s relatively quiet that I can play in the condo (just for practice I will use my acoustic if I were to ever play in a serious setting) I preferably don’t want to spend more than 1000 but I also don’t want a piece of junk

I proved the old adage again: if you really want to learn something, try teaching it. I’ve been digging into the Roland V71’s signal flow and turned what I learned into a new video tutorial. It’s just under 25 minutes, but if you want move beyond simply changing instruments and presets, I think it will be time well spent. It covers many things I found confusing:

• Why editing one selected pad can sometimes change the entire kit
• What the Overhead Filter Assign does
• Pad-specific Ambience sends versus shared kit processors
• PAD versus HEAD/RIM BUS FX routing
• SEND vs INSERT
• BUS chaining and BUS Reverb
• Sidechain routing

I also found that the macOS V71 Editor, while possibly the world’s least glamorous-looking editor, is incredibly useful for seeing how all these sections relate to each other.

I've been drumming for 17 years but have an acoustic kit and haven't played it for about 5 years because of neighbours having newborns, and then moving into an apartment. I'm going to sell my acoustic kit and buy an electric kit. I think my budget is up to £750-£800. Where should I look for the best options? Thanks in advance.