What about electric drums for practicing... gimmee some advice here...

[tubedude]

The idea is good, nice ultra low volume practice... no one gets mad, they dont make noise when you hit em, and I dont have my ears ringing affecting my mixing of other peoples material.
My drummers Premiers are like cannons and we just cant have them in this house right now and are without a place to go until my house is built. I was considering the hot-rods sticks to quiet the drums down, but the kick will still rattle the house down.
What would I want, for practice purposes?
Are the Hart Dynamics Prodigy pads worthwhile with maybe an Alesis drum module, like the DM5? Good enough for practice for a few months and then sell em?
Anyone know where I can locate some used pads and modules pretty cheap?
I would like a Roland V-drum module with some Hart pads I think, but I really dont know what I am looking for, other than I dont want to spend much cash, at all. This is probably temporary... although I would love to be able to play these things all the time.
Thanks for the help.

 

[tubedude]

What about the Alesis DM5 module? Its cheap enough these days...

 

[VOXVENDOR]

This is strange, I have all this stuff, and I was gonna put it on ebay this week.....

Tubedude... I am Selling all 5 of my Hart Acupads Te3.. (Black with mesh head..)

Used for only one month, and then I went with live drums....



Here are my Asking prices..
Alesis D4 $150 USD
4 Acupad Single Triggers TE3 $85 Ea
1 Double Trigger Acupad TE3 $100 Ea

4 brand new mesh heads for future replacements...(I will throw them in for free) $80 Value

I am in Canada, and you would have to pay for shipping... (probably $40)

In case your interested, I paid $127.00 a pc for the Single Trigs... And $159.00 for the Double Trig @ Music123.com in August.

Sorry. to turn your thread into a sales pitch, but you are looking for almost exactly what I'm selling....

voxvendor@voxvendor.com

Joe
.....Heres the pads
http://www.hartdynamics.com/products/acupad/index.html

 

[H2oskiphil]

Tube-

I've got the Hart/Alesis combo you're asking about.

Keeping in mind that I'm a crappy drummer, I think they're great. I can practice till all hours, and my wife can't even hear me upstairs. I'm actually using them to record in my basement studio, and they sound decent (with the normal caveat about the cymbals sounding...well...like...electronic cymbals). I've got a REAL drummer coming in this weekend-I'll let him pass judgement about the feel and playability from the viewpoint of someone who knows what they're doing. I had one other good drummer that played them a couple of weeks ago that said they would take a little getting used to, but he made them sound pretty damn good.

A couple of things to keep in mind...the DM5 will only accept mono inputs, so you can't use a lot of the chokeable cymbals out there, nor can you use dual-trigger pads that use the membrane switch in the rim (like the Yamaha PD-7 and PD-9). Any dual trigger pad will need to have the stereo signal split into 2 mono channels. You've got 12 mono channels to start. Once you've got your basic kit set up (snare, 3 toms, hi-hat, kick, and 2 cymbals) you've only got 4 channels left to play with. A dual trigger snare will eat up an additional channel (or 2 if you keep the original single trigger as an additional tom, like I did), an additional cymbal eats one more, and the cool little bell trigger that Yamaha makes will eat your last channel. Then you start making tradeoffs. Bell sound, or 4th cymbal? 2nd floor tom, or dual channel ride/bell?

The DM-5 comes with 20 pre-programmed kits, of which maybe 4 are useable in their original state, and all of which are set up for basic kits with no dual-trigger snare. Any additional pads or cymbals will have to be programmed to match, unless you're planning on having some weird sounds in the standard kit. You can program in another 20 or 24 kits. Programming is somewhat tedious, and not particularly intuitive (keeping in mind that I've never tried to program a Roland or Yamaha module-the Alesis might be an absolute cakewalk compared to the others...).

All that having been said, I got the whole kit, including the rack, plus a kick pedal, additional dual-trigger snare pad (a Pintech), and throne, on closeout from GC for less than $800. For that price, some of the shortcomings don't seem so bad anymore.

Hope this answers some of your questions-let me know if you have any others.

Phil

 

[ThunderMaker]

these guy's above have offered some great sounding gear advice. I agree with them in getting a hart dynamics pad set but maily find out what exactlly best suits your drummers basic needs i.e two crashes a china effect double kick whatever the case try to match it as best as you can the basics any good drumme will adapt to a temporary kit for the time being and plus too u'll enjoy the kit as well and maybe it can be used with the acoustic kit for more amazing sounds