I am looking for a good electronic drum set.Help please.

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I am a college student that composes jazz,flamenco,brazilian and classical music. I am looking for a versatile drum set at an affordable price. I am not an expert and I would appreciate any help on it. (Can you use a brush on an electric drum set?)
 
i can use brushes on my roland v-drums and they sound pretty good, but anything with that much attention to detail is tough to do with an electronic kit. brushes are much easier with a real kit.
here's an example of something i did for a guy using the stock brush kit that comes with the roland TD-8:


given the styles of music you mentioned though i'd be inclined to say only get an electronic kit if you have abolutely no choice to use real drums. for rock and roll and r&b type music you can do some serious damage with an electric kit and good sample libraries, but for jazz and latin music there is generally so much more detail in the dynamics that it's really tough to pull off convincingly imo.

just my two cents.

oh, and one more thing. a new v-drum kit that can do brushes starts at about $2700 now! when your done buying sample libraries you'll go past $3k easily. now the mics, preamps, and room prep (not to mention the bottles of tylenol) for recording drums can easily be that much alone but if you're doing this on a budget you can manage with less.

best of luck.
 
The Roland mesh pads can be triggered useing brushes (with the standard "stirring the pot" technique) but certainly not with the level of dynamics you can get with an accoustic snare.

There is no way to use brush technique on the rubber pads!!

E-drums are good for music with a solid back beat (rock,pop, country, funk) and even jazz/fusion can be done well on e-drums, but when you get to straight ahead jazz or bebop, I don't think so.

I own a set of Roland V-Drums and have owned 2 other e-kits. I've played e-drums since the 80's (anyone remeber Simmons) and I've owned several accoustic kits.

I would never depend on e-drums for jazz.
 
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