Budget E-Drum Kit for studio?

[dickiefunk]

version of BFD and XFL expansion aswell as EzDrummer. I would like a basic kit that is capable of triggering these sounds. I would like to have at least a dual zone snare ( I don't know if there are any budget kits or triggers that can do snare, rimshot and cross stick like the TD20) and a dual zone ride. As for all the other pads, I'd like them to be as playable and responsive as possible. I have spent some time looking around and have found a few kits that I'm interested in. None of these offer a complete solution out of the box so I would use a different brain and snare / ride for some of them. Here are the options that look favourable at the moment:-

1, Traps E400 kit - Alesis Trigger I/O brain - either Yamaha PCY-130s or Kit Toys Ride

2, Millenium MPS 100 or 200 kit - Alesis Trigger I/O brain - Millenium PD-1010 snare - Yamaha PCY-130s or Kit Toys Ride

3, Legacy DD-502 or 505 kit - Alesis Trigger I/O brain - Millenium PD-1010 snare - Yamaha PCY-130s or Kit Toys Ride

4, Alesis DM5 Pro kit - Millenium PD-1010 snare - Yamaha PCY-130s or Kit Toys Ride

All of these kits cost under £540 $1080 which is my maximum budget.

Which would you recommend as being the best option and are there any other options that I have not listed that would be better? Also, would it be possible to upgrade the clip on triggers on the Traps E400 to something better in the future?

 

[eyeteeth]

Slightly out of line of what you're asking...

But, here.
http://www.electronicdrums.com/pads/pads2.htm

How to build you're own triggers. There's directions for single or dual zone, made from practice pads, or even silent mesh head using old roto toms. While I didn't build a kit, I used their info to rebuild a yamaha kit with dual zone triggers I bought for $60. I then made my own triggers out of a cheap set of plastic "practice" cymbals. I run them through an Alesis D4 into my workstation. Not the highest end solution, but it's a full kit for about $250 when I was done, and it's perfect fer getting stuff into the system.

On the go all out high end, Hart has impressed me the most, followed by Pintech.

http://www.hartdynamics.com/
http://www.pintechworld.com/

Or... combine the two. What you could save building your own triggers, you could get a top of the line multi-zone "snare".

 

[BlackHawk2029]

dude..... just buy the alesis IO and build your own mesh head triggers.... those are EEEAASSSYYYY you can use PVC piping, that flexwood crap, i've even done a plywood shell/hoop. itll be ALOT cheaper than ANYTHING you could buy. then invest in DFHS and you'll be all fine and dandy. throw together some cymbal triggers using those stagg plastic practice cymbals and old mouse pads.

 

[tbone36109]

get the td10 kit with the mesh snare if you dont want to doityourself its got everything you want but a dualzone ride but you can just make the highest few velocities the bell and since the trigger is right where the bell would be if you set the sensitity right it will be impossible to get the bell sound without hititng right over the trigger at the bell and then hit anywhere else for the normal sound(you will lose a little dynamic control but not much this is actually how its set up to do in the roland head from the factory but you can do it in a sequencer program too) i use this kit and nskit free for scratch work late at night. it sounds pretty good but it still doesnt exactly sound natural(also use dkfh and it works well too but still loses a bit) but it still much better than using a mouse to sequence them and its got some humanization to it