electronic pad kits

[ae5]

i have an alesis dm5 and an emu e4xt ultra sampler and currently my band is acoustic triggering the kick drum on my drummers old 70's slingerland jazz kit

however

this is for mostly death metal type stuff where there are very little dynamics (everybody just triggers anyway) and we're also moving to a new city on the other side of the country (san francisco from boston) and real estate is going to be very high there and we won't have money for a practice space (we currently practice for free at his parrents house) so we're leaning towards an electronic pad kit, he was getting a new kit soon anyway but the more we think about it we're thinking e-drums might be the way to go as they're more responsive (when you jack the sensitivity up) plus we can practice in an apartment out there (through headphones even if we have to).

the sounds are not a big deal as i said i have a dm5 which would be sending the midi signal out to digital performer 3 running on my mac, and then out to the sampler which would be making the sounds, thus we can sample the hell out of his real kit and trigger these sounds from the electronic kit, and or "cheat" if we feel like it and "fix" things or re arrange things or whatever we feel like, as well as changing the drum sounds as we see fit.

i was wondering if anyone here knew alot about them and which ones to check out, right now we're kind of tossing up between a roland vdrum kit and a hart dynamics 5.3 kit (leaning towards the hart).

basicly he was going to spend about $1700 on a conoway kit so that's roughly the ammount he'd be spending on an e-kit. we don't want a brain, just the pads. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[ae5]

anyone?

[MPCman]

I'd go for a Hart kit, more bang for the buck I think.

Also check out my edrum picsite for pics of various edrum setups+user comments.

If you've got more specific questions, try it on vdrums.com, lost of hart and roland users over there.

[ae5]

Originally posted by MPCman
I'd go for a Hart kit, more bang for the buck I think.

Also check out my edrum picsite for pics of various edrum setups+user comments.

If you've got more specific questions, try it on vdrums.com, lost of hart and roland users over there.

thanks!

[MPCman]

btw is that you on the pics on the website in your signature?

[braif]

If it is a volume problem you are trying to solve, you might consider going with the existing drum kit and just put mesh heads and triggers on it. There is a thread on here that was posted a few weeks ago about a very intriquing method for constructing a V-Drum type of tiggering system on existing acoustic drums.

Up until recently my kit was a Pear Rhythm Traveller with mesh heads and stick on triggers....worked O.K. for me under the circumstances

Good luck

[fastplant]

I use a Roland V drum set in my band. We play in a lot of smaller clubs so we need to be quieter. The price was not bad at all and it sounds great. In fact, we played at a club last week and the sound guy came up to me and told me that he has a lot of electronic drum sets come on stage and none of them have sounded as good as mine. I'd really suggest Vdrums

[ae5]

i'm leaning towards the harts. everyone who's played both that i've talked to vastly prefers the harts and they're cheaper.