Looking for a electronic set of drums

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I have never played the drums before and i want to learn. My only limitation is space. I need something that is compact but still worth the money spent on it. After researching I came across the Yamaha DD65 and want to know if this was something good to look into? And if there are any other options that are small and compact?
 
The DD-65 is a WIN. I'd suggest replacing the hi-hat/kick pedals that come with it with some of these:

Hi-hat Controller
Kick Pad
Kick Pedal

These pedals will give a more natural feel, as the pedals that come with the DD-65 take some getting-used-to. The only problem with the DD-65 is if you are planning on tracking MIDI with it, the hi-hat pedal (when depressed) will still track open hi-hat notes. It doesn't do this when you are just playing through the speakers or through the line-out, though. It's easy enough to fix in post- too.
 
OK thanks! Another Question. im not very familiar with electronic drums but can you change the sound of every different piece of the drum on it or is it just presets that you can use? And can you somehow load your own presets on their? im not sure how it really works? And do they demo them at the store or just have them in boxes?
 
I'm sure there are some stores that have demo units out, but most any store will bring a unit out for you to try if they don't have a demo unit.

All electric drum kits are different, but the DD-65 has 50 different preset kits that range from rock kits to pop kits to hiphop kits to even ambient/random sound kits. In addition to the 50 presets, there are three kits that you can customize. You can choose from any of the 250+ stock sounds to assign to any pad for each kit. You can't load your own sounds on this specific device, but you can trigger your own sounds through MIDI.

There are 100 preset songs that have a range of genres for you to play to. You can also record up to three songs of drums which you can playback or overwrite at any time.
 
unless you're on a tight budget, you can't go wrong with the versatility of the roland v drums
 
Roland is the KING of electronic drums, nothing sound as good. Especially if you're a drummer, youre not gonna like playing a little drum pad like the dd65. V-drums kits are very natural feeling, especially the mesh head kits, but they are not cheap.... But you get what you pay for.
 
I got a TD4 new for $699 ($899 with a $200 rebate from Roland) - the current TD4 is more expensive but you can find used TD3/4 setups.

They are really nice - my drummer normally plays on real acoustic drums be he likes the TD4's - they have good resale value too.

I think you can pick up that little Yamaha thing used on ebay pretty cheap but it just seems like more of a toy to me...
 
I have a yamaha DD 55 (similar to the 65).

The thing is just terrible man, very little dynamic expression and the rubber pads don't fell all that great to play, coupled with the fact that they were around 6" in diameter it was just a shitty thing to have to play on. I still have it lying around as I have just been to lazy to get it on CL. The pedals were junk, it just wasn't that good.

Spring for a cheap e kit, it's worth it.
 
At one point several years back I used a Yamaha DD something to track some MIDI drums. The velocity levels were very limited and trying to play the 6" pads required such accuracy that it sucked the joy right out of the performance.

I up-gradded to a Roland TD10 (this was before there were so many other TD kit options) - but the ability to really play, combined with the board range of sounds, the almost limitless editing capabilities and the borad range of velocity and dynamics was soooooo much better than any Yamaha DD tabletop.

If I were you, I would save a little more and try to buy something like a TD4
 
I have found the DD-65 to be quite good for a drum machine that often gets referred to as a toy. It isn't going to give you professional results, because anyone who knows what drums should sound like will know that it was done on a drum machine. To the untrained ear(most people) it won't sound bad at all. When someone first played me a song that they had recorded on it I thought sounded fine.
 
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