Choosing the best beginner electronic drum kit

Choosing the best beginner electronic drum kit how to guide

An electronic drum kit has many advantages over an acoustic drum kit. Electric drum kits have the advantage of being turned down to a minimum volume and can be used with headphones. This feature is great if you live in a flat/house with very little soundproofing. You wouldn’t want to disturb your neighbors or others in the house. We will help you in Choosing the best beginner electronic

It also takes up less space and can be folded down easily. These kits can easily produce multiple drumkit sounds from an 808 kit to a reggae kit etc. the list is endless. Therefore You’ll have the ability to assign any sound to any desired pad, which is great for getting creative. And another great feature is the play-along backing tracks with different genres of music to familiarise yourself with. They come with a click track feature to get your timing and precision together.

Alesis Command Mesh Kit, Eight-Piece Electronic Drum Kit with Mesh Heads. Great sounding kit.

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Choosing Pad surfaces

With electronic drum kits, there are two pad surface options. Rubber pads and mesh pads. The mesh pads are so realistic and give a close representation feel as an acoustic drum.

I have a mesh pad >Roland vdrum kit < which I use at home to practice on, and I love it!! Another great feature to note with the electronic drum kits that have mesh pads is you can adjust the tension of the mesh pads to the desired feel and response that you’d like. You’d usually find these features on the higher end kits, and they have more realistic sounds and features that replicate an acoustic drumkit. Such as a mechanical working hi-hat which imitates a real one.

Rubber pads have one overall feel to them and don’t have the ability to adjust the response tension. They are still great to use. I created a kit setup where I had the rubber pads as my toms and one >Roland Mesh Pad < as my snare. That setup worked a treat.

Choosing the best electronic drum kit Accessories

In some cases, we’d like to add an electronic addition to our existing acoustic setup. That’s where trigger pads with the ability to sample in your own sounds or use the built-in preset sounds come into play. There are a few brands which offer this. Roland and Alesis. On my setup, I use a Roland spd-sx which has nine sampling pads. Allowing me to replicate sounds from an original song whether it be a hand clap or a deep 808 snare sound or a voice, percussion sounds. The list is endless!!!

Accessory comparison list

Below I’ve created a list in order of price. Starting with the most expensive being the Roland Spd-sx. In most cases, you do get what you pay for but these are great contenders that will get the job done.

Roland Spd-sx

The most expensive and biggest in size but its at the top of the game when it comes to sampling drum pads. widely used on a professional level. Many features to note, metronome out feature to keep you in time whilst playing.High quality sample playback, very robust machine and the pads feel great. Direct drag and drop of samples from computer to drum module. Sample straight into the unit.Your literally buying the God of drum sampling pads.

Alesis Sample pad 4

Also small in size, this has four LED-illuminated rubber pads so in low light situations you can be accurate with your pad strikes. Upload your samples from your mac or pc straight into the unit. Add effects to your samples.

Alesis Sample Pad

The cheapest option but still gets the job done if you want to have something to throw in your gig case that will bring the presence of electronic sounds. Put all your sounds on an sd card and you’re ready to rock and roll. Small in size so it can be placed literally anywhere around your drumkit.

Yours truly Drewdrums