Thank you for your reply. The software route is not an option for me as I record on a Tascam 244. I guess what I am wondering is will anyone listening to an e-kit on a recording know that it is an e-kit and not a real drum kit? There are so many variables that constitute the acoustic signature of real drums that I am sceptical as to whether an e-kit can reproduce that organic sound and feel. Or maybe I should just give up on the idea of having drums on my recordings.It depends on how you use them and what your budget is.
I've had good luck with a moderately priced e-kit, using it as a MIDI controller to drive drum sampler software like EZDrummer and Steven Slate Drums. In this case, the e-kit doesn't provide the audio, just the MIDI data, and the sampler software provides the actual sounds. So the kit sounds as good as the sampling software.
You can also record the audio output of an e-kit's "brain" or control module. It's less flexible, but if your kit has good-sounding samples built-in, then you don't have to fork out more cash for software on top of the cost of the kit itself.
Most of the rock and metal (and some country) CD's produced in the last 10 years have some sort of drum sampling going on. So samples are not all bad. It will also be a step up from a cheap drum set, in a bad room, through cheap mics, mixed down to stereo into a portastudio.
It depends on how you use them and what your budget is.
I've had good luck with a moderately priced e-kit, using it as a MIDI controller to drive drum sampler software like EZDrummer and Steven Slate Drums. In this case, the e-kit doesn't provide the audio, just the MIDI data, and the sampler software provides the actual sounds. So the kit sounds as good as the sampling software.
You can also record the audio output of an e-kit's "brain" or control module. It's less flexible, but if your kit has good-sounding samples built-in, then you don't have to fork out more cash for software on top of the cost of the kit itself.
you can load superior drummer stuff into the brain.
It depends on how you use them and what your budget is.
I've had good luck with a moderately priced e-kit, using it as a MIDI controller to drive drum sampler software like EZDrummer and Steven Slate Drums. In this case, the e-kit doesn't provide the audio, just the MIDI data, and the sampler software provides the actual sounds. So the kit sounds as good as the sampling software.
Thank you for your reply. The software route is not an option for me as I record on a Tascam 244. I guess what I am wondering is will anyone listening to an e-kit on a recording know that it is an e-kit and not a real drum kit? There are so many variables that constitute the acoustic signature of real drums that I am sceptical as to whether an e-kit can reproduce that organic sound and feel. Or maybe I should just give up on the idea of having drums on my recordings.
Again thanks for your reply and any other help you may have to offer.