V drum question.

[Richard Becker]

I got into electric drums back in the early 90's with a Roland TD7 kit - I used it both for studio and a few gigs a week. After not having the opportunity to play for a number of years I am now getting back into it and I'm wondering if it's worth outlaying for a full V kit, or just adding a few mesh head pads - namely for snare and kick to my existing vintage TD7 setup.

My test plays of V kits has left me feeling that one of the original weaknesses with the TD7 module, namely the rather weak cymbal / hit hat samples has not yet been fully eliminated. I could be wrong on this because as you know trying to evaluate an instruments worth while playing it in the shop is difficult. I'd appreciate any thoughts you have simply because I would hate to outlay the cash for a full V set up if it's not going to be leaps and bounds ahead of what I could achieve by simply adding a new V snare and kick to a TD7 set up

 

[c0r1n]

Outside of real ones, of course...

I think the TD20 has excellent cymbals, much improved over the previous generations of Vdrums... the rest fall a bit short, it's true. The drums themselves still sound pretty bad to me, but the cymbals are about the best you can find outside of a full on sampler. For $6000+ though, you can buy one of the many PC drum sample packages and a hellacious system to run it. At this point, that's what I would do.