Swindon Music

Indeed I could. It's more of a closet.

No worries chap drop me a pm at some stage stage if you do.

matt i was thinking of getting an electric kit as well mate.. my idea was more for programming in drums into logic giving it a more live feel.. so (without) hijacking your thread.. would that dm5 kit be good for that.. hooking upto my mac and using the (i assume midi) signals to trigger samples anyone..?

we should get n make some filthy music again man... real flithy.

Yeh man definately

I have a DM5 module and a selection of pads, which I use with my band; we still use the acoustic kit for anything that we want to sound like drums, and we don't use the DM5's sounds really, just a MIDI connection with a laptop. You'll need a MIDI-USB or MIDI-Firewire connector at a guess. I've done some recording though, using my laptop (a very modest one, no special components or anything) and it worked fine. I used something like this: http://www.dv247.com/invt/30314/ There are good drum synths you can get for nothing as VST instruments and so on if you want more interesting sounds than the ones on the DM5 module.

I use a Roland TD 3. Feels fine, I beat the s**t out of it and in the two years I've had it, only needed to replace a lead! Sounds are a bit poo, fine for practising, but for recording I use it to trigger BFD2. I challenge anywhere in swindon to get a better drum sound than my back bedroom!

I gota copy of BFD form my friend works for FXpansion. It sounds ace but found it uses far more prcoessing power than my heap of a PC can muster, which is a shame as based on what you're saying I'd be hooking it up to my TD6 as soon as.

Addictive Drums is a brilliant drum synth, very nice sounding and plenty of versatility. It doesn't take up as much space as BFD or need as much CPU power either. It's my fave at the mo.

yeah I've heard good things about addictive drums... I love the BFD sounds though, but you're right, it's a processor hog!

I've been looking at a few (after my first drum lesson friday) and came across this one - http://www.absolutemusic.co.uk/shop/view_product_large.php?product=trae450, Only £400 , has mesh heads on the pads and huge bass drum pad for double bass (yeah I'm ambitious). Reckon it's worth a punt?

I'd be worried about that huge mesh kick pad being a bit saggy. Even with the little ones you can still put a double pedal's beaters on it. Also for the mesh kick heads it helps if the module has the ability to tweak the trigger sensitivity otherwise you can get double triggers as the beater bounces more on a mesh head than it does on a real head.

just an observation - folk are mentioning "TD3 kits" and TD9 kits" : the TD- bt is just the module - there's more than one quality of pads that can come with them. imho Hart are nicer mesh pads than the Roland ones - a Hart Virtuoso kit couple with a TD-12 is a bloody good system - the positional sensing and sensitivity of the pads and triggers makes quite a difference, particularly if you are used to playing a real kit.

i would trust traps with a barge pole. .youd be "trapped" with it. . a better kit for lot less would be the alesis dm5 pro which also contains mesh pads at a £100 less for £300. .which ill be gettin myself

I'm playing Roland TD-9 these days. I upgraded from the Roland TD-6. The new Roland TD-9 comes with all mesh pads, with a 12" mesh pad for the snare. Can use double bass pedals on the kick pad too. 3 way cymbals, meaning for a ride I get an edge, bow and bell sound. All cymbals are chokeable. I've set all the rims on the tom toms to trigger different sounds, so I can hit the rims for percussion instruments like cowbells, tambourines etc as well as having a tom tom on the main pad. All the modules below TD-12 all pretty much share similar sounds, the difference is that the dearer modules have more sounds, and more functions. TD-12 and TD-20 have really nice high quality samples. But to be honest these days most people are running modules through computers via midi and triggering off sounds from software like DFH etc. which sound a lot better.

Anyway the TD-9 was £1500 and was a good buy. The Alesis kits are cheap, but you get what you pay for.

A bit out of my price range I think! I think they have the next stage up to that in holmes, it looked pretty. I've got my eye on this now after being sent a link to the site. I like that it looks like a real drum kit. Looks like some good bundles on that site

Looks pretty good actually. I was going to say, if you have an acoustic drum kit you could consider buying mesh heads and cheap triggers. Would set you back about £80. But you'd need to buy a module, and some E-cymbals, but Pintech do some nice cheap E-cymbals, or theres some guy on Ebay that makes E-cymbals himself.