Looking for the best Electric Drum set

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Give me a List of the Best Electrric drum sets, which will give me the most options, have the best feel, and the qualitly sound

Would like to have names, model numbers, and price range or maby a URL so i can further look into it. Thanks
 
By Far!

The BEST I have ever played on , as well as sound is the Roland V-drums (The Concert series, not the club series).
They are also about $4500 dollars.

As a drummer I played an older style roland drum set for 8 years and got to hate the hard pads and the unrealistic sound and playability. But the new mesh head designs feel very natural, and the sounds are often better than most acoustic kits. The cymbals are always the sticky point. You can always play live cymbals though, at least they are a cinch to mic.
 
You know of any other Electric drum sets a bit cheaper that give the same quality
 
I would suggest hart dynamics series of electronic drums.

The hart dynamics studio master 6.4 is about the best value in electronic drums. Mesh heads and you can pick up the kit for around 1250 or some at some retailers. Hart Dynamics also has a lifetime warranty of thier stuff! http://www.drumbalaya.com/ is becoming the "hub" for electronic drum consumers.

Now, that is just for the rack, pads, cymbals and cords. the Brain (drum module) is where you also have more options. Roland (td-6, td-8 and td-10) Alesis (dm5 and DmPro) and Clavia Ddrum (ddrum4) are pretty much the most popular brands of modules I know of..


You can pick up a Roland td-8 and Hart Studio Master 6.4 for much LESS than 2,000 dollars.
 
The Hart mesh pads are porbably the least expensive (and they respond well). Pintech pads are normally a little more costly than Hart, but less than Roland.

The Roland TD-10 is one of the most flexible brains (allowing for numerous tweaks). I like the Alesis Pro, which I think has better sounds right out of the box, but less tweakability, than the Roland. However, if you spend time tweaking the TD-10 the quality of sounds from the TD10 vs. the Alesis are very close.

I've never used the Ddrums - but they are highly regarded. I don't know how well other manufacturers pads work with the Ddrum brain.

Sound people claim their "home made" pads work just as well as the Hart/Pintech/Roland pads - maybe, I've never tried homemade.

I've owned a few e-kits (going all the way back to the Simmons days) and have played just about every e-kit in various studios (except the Ddrums). I currently have the Roland TD10 V-drums - I'm as satisfied as I think I could be with an e-kit)
 
Thanks for the input

This is my frist Electric Drum set and i really have never played on electric drums before so i dont know much at all about what is good out there.

Just want a set for my house that is noiseless so my dad wont bitch about the noise and i want to closest possible sound to a real set

But one that does not cost me all my spending $
 
If you cheap out on the pads, don't go cheap on the brain. I would suggest the Roland TD-10 expanded TDW-1. I would also go with the Roland V-cymbals to get the most out of the TDW-1. It will also allow for expandabilty later on if you should decide to upgrade with better E drums. If your budget would allow (which it sounds like your saying it doesn't) go with the Roland V-sessions red set (the red set has ribbed tubes so the mounts don't slip). Closest thing to "real drum" feel. ( I hate using "real drum" term, because if a guitar is electric it's still real!)
 
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