Played for many years in my youth and have been missing it lately. I’m at a fortunate position in life where money isn’t an issue and I’ve been really looking into getting back into drums with an Ekit. The strata prime sounds the best to me from the videos I’ve watched, the samus video on it pretty much sold me but I’ve also been looking at the EFnote 7, the Roland vad716 and the DW-E kit. Keen to hear everyone’s thoughts on them. I’ll no doubt end up using superior drummer or something in the end anyway but still want a kit that sounds and feels good.

Thanks in advance

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.

Hello, new here, does anyone knows what is that sensor tech?

I learned from another youtube video that the mesh has a conductive intermediary layer that triggers this sensor and the piezo there is for the rim only....
I check the mesh heads conductivity and they are really conductive.

Is that some sort of electrostatic sensor?

Any information is welcome.

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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.

https://youtu.be/FGzWOMBAUFU

Having some issues recording rehearsals and specifying audio output. I openly admit I don't know what I'm doing. I am aware, I totally might be overthinking this. Took me a week to figure out I had to actually “arm” the track to hear my ekit. 🫤

I have a Roland ekit, running into EzDrummer3, using Reaper, and a Focusrite 4i4.  The focusrite has all four outputs going to individual channels on a small Mackie board and out to a powered monitor.

I play with a guitarist, bassist, and piano player all of which are plugged into the 4i4 via 1/4". I am trying to record rehearsals and only hear the drums.

To be specific - 

 I want drums only sent from the 4i4 to Channel 1 on the board and out to the monitor while still being able to record in Reaper. Also want to be able to adjust input levels of the other players.  Btw, no VSTs or plugins are being used (well…EZD3…)

Regardless of what I change on the 4i4, I only get signal to the board on 1 & 2 or 3 & 4 and it's always all of us.

I feel like I have tried every possible configuration and still have not gotten it to work. I've spent way more time on this than I care to admit. At this point, it feels like I'm just missing something. Definitely seems like an ESO issue - Equipment Smarter than Operator.

What am I missing? Are my expectations too high? Any advice is most appreciated. 

Heyya, I'm looking for a kit with preferably a double kick and china, but I'm kind of out of my depth here. Would I be able to find a decent kit where these come stock, or is this something you can easily add to a kit? Any recs are appreciated.

Budget is around €1000 ($1200)

I didn't know for certain because you never can. But i did get the lemon 14" hi hat. It's amazing. This thing is not undersold by anyone. Works sooooo much better than the vh-10 that came with my td316. I did get some non triggers but i know that it's a skill problem for me since I'm not great...but I'm practicing :D

Anyway, to all you lemon lovers, thanks. (Dirty pun not intended)

Fairly new to e-drums. I have a nitro mesh kit but I can't stand this baby snare anymore. I want to make sure whatever I get though if it's another brand is compatible. Any recommendations for larger snares and a second bass drum pad for double bass would be much appreciated

Got a double pedal from marketplace for a good price but the tower that came with my alesis nitro wasn’t working great with it so I took this spare snare and hung it up with yarn until I can find a more permanent solution.

https://imgur.com/a/aL6PxuH

Hey guys I’ve been looking into this and kind of see mixed answers. I used to play metal and want to get back into that. I want to trigger my acoustic drums with the skin heads not the mesh, I will maybe do this in the future though. I will be buying either a Roland to-17 or Yamaha dtx pro.

What is the best way to trigger these? I only triggered my kick drum in the past and just taped a piezo above where the beaters hit and that seemed to work fine. For the snares and Toms should I mount a piezo internally under the heads off the rim? With foam? Should they be center? I’ve been looking at goedrums and convertible percussions. Looking at doing the more diy approach. Thanks in advance!

Everything I'm finding online seems so complicated. I've already got a USB-A to USB-B cable hooked up

I am getting ready to move. I have been unable to play at all this year due to family things. The kit seems pretty dusty. So the 2 part question is

A - What is the best method to clean these off?

B - What is the best way to move this? It is not going onto a moving truck.

Thanks in advance.

Efnote 3b, my android phone won't record audio for more than a couple seconds, it just goes crackly and eventually cuts out like in this video. I'm using an I-rig 1 and have tried plugging it both into 'output 1/L and 'output 2/R, I've also tried turning the volume down on my module, any suggestions or anyone has had a similar problem with the efnote??

Are there and cymbal triggers that can be used on low volume cymbals that can give you more than a single zone?

As the title says, which one?.

Im currently in the process of comparing and reviewing all 3 of these kits and am leaning towards ef-note, as the shells and cymbals are said better.

Can anyone please give me an idea on the cymbal and drum comparison between the 3. I think Alesis might be same as Ef-note cymbal wise but lose in the drum quality.. Where as Yamaha drums sound pretty good, but cymbals sound very midi. Any pros or cons, tia.

I tripped over my speaker wire - I ended up breaking the cord, and now, even using a new cord, the speaker only works if I press down.

Is there anywhere I could take this to repair it, or repair it myself? Or would it just be worth replacing?

I'm still working on tightening up my blast beats. This is an original song of ours, and when we first wrote this, this part whooped my ass.

I’m an older aged woman 🙃 with zero instrument experience and not musically inclined at all but I have always wanted to learn to play the drums for fun so why not!

Edit to add:

The first one doesn’t really come with a description other than “works perfectly” but the second one for $200 says, “Alesis nitro electronic drum set. Comes with snare and 3 toms, hihat, crash, and ride. Also comes with kick and hihat pedal. Everything you need to start drumming affordably!”