trade Acoustic for Electronic???

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Would I be totally stupid to trade in my acoustic set of Ludwig Drumz for an electronic set? I was looking at some of the pintech usa series and another pintech set of ele/drums both of which have the mesh pads instead of the solid rubber. Both come with a drum brain. I recently purchase the DKFH cd and want to use it with some electronic setup. Has anyone done this and been sorry that they did?
 
All thought an electric set of drums can be your ticket to "THe GREAT DRUM SOUND", I look at it as cheating the recording world. However, i use electric drums for electric drum sounds and my real set for real sounds. It depends on what you need the most. Real sounds or Fake ones. The Electronic set would do fine though but i don't mean to be telling you what to do with your money.

good luck :)

Zeke
 
Thats exactly what I do currently. I sold my Gretch 20 piece set about 3 years ago for an electronic set but still use my paiste cymbals. Micing an acoustic kit can be a real pain in the ass and costly. The DFH and other samplers are excellent. Recorded with top notch drums in a top notch studio with top notch gear in 24 bit. I do miss my big kit though. Even though the DM4 can produce a lot of sounds, playing live you just cant do some of the things you can do with an acoustic set.
Here is my kit. Do you wanna trade ? What acoustic's do you have
 

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weird, but i'm making exactly the opposite move. after about ten years of not playing, i bought an electric kit, fucked around with playing samples for about six months, then sat down on a real kit (and a crappy one at that) and found that I could do much more with a crappy real kit than I could do with an electric kit.

just depends on your perspective and what you have patience for I guess. electric kits are cool for recording cause there are no mics and room treatments involved but.......you are severely limited on dynamics and subtle stuff that you can do witha real drum.

in my case, i just grew up playing a real kit so the electric was more frustrating than enjoyable in the end.
 
Yeah I guess that I dont mind if I have to cheat a little to get the best sound. The kit I have sounds ok when I play it...but it comes alive when my friend plays it. So I know it can sound great. The problem is that Ive never been able to mike it to get a sound that Im satisfied with. So If I have to use some samples and an electronic kit to actually finish a song and not get stuck on the drums then so be it. I dont mind. If thats what it takes then thats what it takes.
 
It took me a year (i'm not kidding) to get a good sound out of my kit and i love the sound. It won't come easy, but oh..when i does come, you will feel so good. But if you must buy Electric drums, Mix and match em'. Use Electric drums with real cymbals. All you need to mic whould be the overheads.
 
If you only record maybe (and that's a big maybe) an electronic kit may work for you.

Accoustic kits can be very hard to get a good recorded sound from - you need a good sounding kit, a decent sounding room, the right mic's and enough mixer channels to cover it all.

With E-drums all you still is a stero (or even a mono) send. However, e-drum sounds can be thin and the cymbal sounds will never be good enough (almost everyone who records e-drums still use accoustic cymbals).

If you currently do live gigs (or plan to in the near future) keep the accoustic kit. E-drums are a pain in the ass live. You need a decent sound system and a decent monitoring system. If something goes wrong with an accoustic kit, a piece of duct tape can fix almost anything. If something goes wrong with an E-kit, you could be dead in the water.

I think accoustic drums and E-drum both have a place (just like accoustic guitar vs. electric) - but if you could have only one - the decision almost seems obvious - accoustic.

I've owned about a dozen accoustic kits and a few E-kits, I could function (gig and record) live without the E-drums - I could not function without the accoustics.
 
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