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    Posted: December 30 2008 at 22:47
I've got a Premier 5 piece jazz fusion set, K dark dry ride, ziljian hi-hats, sabien crash, and paste crash, Pearl 179.99 double pedal, and Vater nylon tip 5B's.

Remo Emperor Heads on top
Remo Ambassadors on bottom
Aquarian Super-Kick II

And Snares i've got my Premier set Snare and I have my new

Yamaha Musashi Oak Snare Drum
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Well here's something i made earlier - my own custom V-Drums -  I have spent a year building and tweaking this lot, but very happy with the result! Big smile
 
 
 
 
The module is a Roland TD-12, and using VEXpressions software i have a choice of around 600 different drum kits to choose from, all the classic kits are there; Ludwigs, Pearls, Premiers, Mapexes, Tamas, Craviottos, Gretsches, Ayottes, and signature kits like Bonham, Moon, Paice, Peart etc.. All the drums and cymbals can be tweaked; metal, brass or wood snare, drum sizes, miking , tuning,  cymbal sizes, sizzle options, the  Mackie mixer can adjust reverb/room size, all played through headphones or a Mackie 250watt PA system including twoJBL 15" PA speaker cabinets. The rims have been mounted with rubber brake pipe, triggered separately to produce authentic rim shot sounds, especially on the snare! 
Cymbals are stock Roland 12",14" crash and 15" ride (bow, bell and edge) mounted on a chrome frame,  12" fully functional hi-hat,  drums (two 10", two 12",  15" snare, 22" bass) are an old CB set i triggered up using cross member mountings and Piezo/cone triggers - including the bass drum, with Mapex stool, hihat stand and twin drum pedals, and mapex cymbal stands and snare stands.   Also i have added a Roland SPD-S sampling pad for  effects including cowbells etc, you name it!Smile
 
The silent drum heads are Roland mesh heads, the durable material developed by NASA , a pair of sticks will last indefinitely on this surface, which is less abrasive than conventional heads.. The overall sound is sharp, clear with low bass, and sounds great through the PA or routed into the PC sound card, so I can practice anytime i like without waking half the neighbourhood. Wink 
 


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My drumset is a weathered late-60s Ludwig 18"x24" kick  + 13" and 16" toms in blue sparkle wrap with a 5.5x14 Acrosonic snare.  I usually just play this 4-piece kit, but I have some other drums in the same finish (12" & 14" toms, 14x20" kick) if I want to mix things up.  Cymbals: mostly beat-up Zildjians (14" hats, 16"/18" crashes, 21" ride, 20" K dry ride) and a few Paistes (20" chinese, assorted splashes, cup chimes and machined hi-hat "effect" cymbals) that I rotate around depending on my mood and what sort of stuff I'm playing.  Pearl double pedal, assorted hardware, Promark 5A (round tip) sticks and various mallets, brushes, and other striking implements.  Lots of miscellaneous hand drums, tambourines, shakers, and other odds and ends not really worth cataloging here.
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Well here's something i made earlier - my own custom V-Drums -  I have spent a year building and tweaking this lot, but very happy with the result! Big smile
 
 
 
 
The module is a Roland TD-12, and using VEXpressions software i have a choice of around 600 different drum kits to choose from, all the classic kits are there; Ludwigs, Pearls, Premiers, Mapexes, Tamas, Craviottos, Gretsches, Ayottes, and signature kits like Bonham, Moon, Paice, Peart etc.. All the drums and cymbals can be tweaked; metal, brass or wood snare, drum sizes, miking , tuning,  cymbal sizes, sizzle options, the  Mackie mixer can adjust reverb/room size, all played through headphones or a Mackie 250watt PA system including twoJBL 15" PA speaker cabinets. The rims have been mounted with rubber brake pipe, triggered separately to produce authentic rim shot sounds, especially on the snare! 
Cymbals are stock Roland 12",14" crash and 15" ride (bow, bell and edge) mounted on a chrome frame,  12" fully functional hi-hat,  drums (two 10", two 12",  15" snare, 22" bass) are an old CB set i triggered up using cross member mountings and Piezo/cone triggers - including the bass drum, with Mapex stool, hihat stand and twin drum pedals, and mapex cymbal stands and snare stands.   Also i have added a Roland SPD-S sampling pad for  effects including cowbells etc, you name it!Smile
 
The silent drum heads are Roland mesh heads, the durable material developed by NASA , a pair of sticks will last indefinitely on this surface, which is less abrasive than conventional heads.. The overall sound is sharp, clear with low bass, and sounds great through the PA or routed into the PC sound card, so I can practice anytime i like without waking half the neighbourhood. Wink 
 
 
Beautiful, beautiful equipment, sir. I'm a guitarist, myself, but have always loved the look and feel of drums. This made me salivate. Clap
 
Exactly how much are V Drums running these days price-wise? And what program has the most variety of kits available? I've always wanted to give these things a try, but always heard they were either too expensive and/or inferior to actual acoustic drums.
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Originally posted by nightlamp nightlamp wrote:

My drumset is a weathered late-60s Ludwig 18"x24" kick  + 13" and 16" toms in blue sparkle wrap with a 5.5x14 Acrosonic snare.  I usually just play this 4-piece kit, but I have some other drums in the same finish (12" & 14" toms, 14x20" kick) if I want to mix things up.  Cymbals: mostly beat-up Zildjians (14" hats, 16"/18" crashes, 21" ride, 20" K dry ride) and a few Paistes (20" chinese, assorted splashes, cup chimes and machined hi-hat "effect" cymbals) that I rotate around depending on my mood and what sort of stuff I'm playing.  Pearl double pedal, assorted hardware, Promark 5A (round tip) sticks and various mallets, brushes, and other striking implements.  Lots of miscellaneous hand drums, tambourines, shakers, and other odds and ends not really worth cataloging here.


yeah i've got a beautiful 20" K custom Dry ride they are nice.
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^^ they are not cheap, extra kits can be downloaded from VEXpressions.com for about £20  for a group of 25 kits, the TD-12 module is around £600/700 atm.  look out for used bargains on Ebay Smile
 
 
 expensive?   yes, nothing good comes cheap
 
inferior to acoustic drums?  definitely not - many pros are using V-Drums these days, just ask Neil Peart...Wink
 
i have owned an acoustic kit, but it shook the house, and i don't think the neighbours were too impressed Ermm


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I have this one - does it count?
 
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^ sure, can you play it..? Big smile
 
 
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Here's what I use for recording drums:

http://www.ableton.com/session-drums

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I have a great invisible air-drum kit - in the unlikely event of a trans-dimensional shift causing the kit to become visible to the untrained eye, it would look like this:



One reason it has to stay invisible is some Canadian guy nicked & copyrighted my personalised image from the front of the kick drums

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I have a great invisible air-drum kit - in the unlikely event of a trans-dimensional shift causing the kit to become visible to the untrained eye, it would look like this:



One reason it has to stay invisible is some Canadian guy nicked & copyrighted my personalised image from the front of the kick drums





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Originally posted by Mr ProgFreak Mr ProgFreak wrote:

Here's what I use for recording drums:

http://www.ableton.com/session-drums

Big smile



That looks intense and it looks like you'd have to really study the manual.
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Originally posted by Mr ProgFreak Mr ProgFreak wrote:

Here's what I use for recording drums:

http://www.ableton.com/session-drums

Big smile
 
I'm an idiot, but . . . if I would use that program, would I absolutely have to use a physical pad of some sort to play the rhythms like the guy is doing in the demo, or could I just do the beats on the computer.
 
Or am I looking for something else like EZ Drummer?
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^ Ableton Session Drums is simply a software instrument which uses sampled drum sounds ... you can use it with any MIDI instrument you like. It's not a complete solution for creating drum tracks ... you still have to play them yourself (it doesn't generate beats or anything like that).

@hawkcwg: What you see in the video may look a bit complicated - but it's really not. It's the common interface of Ableton Live ... the advantage is that all the instruments, effects etc. use the same interface, so you only have to learn it once.Smile
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Well i think i'll Stick to the acoustic set



mines on the left

Those broken cymbals where cracking so I cut the cracks off to stop them and they turned into china and industrial cymbals haha. I do have a new Paiste Signature crash now though.
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^Hey, Chase . . . who owns the Yamaha kit?
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8”, 10”, 12”, 14”, 16” Toms - Clear Evans G2 tops with Genera Resonant bottoms.

14" Snare  - Evans Genera HD Dry Coated top with Evans Hazy 300 Coated bottom

2 x 22" Bass - Evans EQ3 Clears

Zildjian ZXT 14” Rock High Hats – Titanium
Zildjian ZXT 16” Rock Crash – Titanium
Zildjian ZXT 10” Flash Splash – Titanium
Zildjian ZXT 16” Medium Thin Crash – Titanium
Zildjian ZXT 18” Band Crash – Titanium
Zildjian ZXT 20” Rock Ride – Titanium
Zildjian ZXT 18” Total China - Titanium
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Well here's something i made earlier - my own custom V-Drums -  I have spent a year building and tweaking this lot, but very happy with the result! Big smile
 
 
 
 
The module is a Roland TD-12, and using VEXpressions software i have a choice of around 600 different drum kits to choose from, all the classic kits are there; Ludwigs, Pearls, Premiers, Mapexes, Tamas, Craviottos, Gretsches, Ayottes, and signature kits like Bonham, Moon, Paice, Peart etc.. All the drums and cymbals can be tweaked; metal, brass or wood snare, drum sizes, miking , tuning,  cymbal sizes, sizzle options, the  Mackie mixer can adjust reverb/room size, all played through headphones or a Mackie 250watt PA system including twoJBL 15" PA speaker cabinets. The rims have been mounted with rubber brake pipe, triggered separately to produce authentic rim shot sounds, especially on the snare! 
Cymbals are stock Roland 12",14" crash and 15" ride (bow, bell and edge) mounted on a chrome frame,  12" fully functional hi-hat,  drums (two 10", two 12",  15" snare, 22" bass) are an old CB set i triggered up using cross member mountings and Piezo/cone triggers - including the bass drum, with Mapex stool, hihat stand and twin drum pedals, and mapex cymbal stands and snare stands.   Also i have added a Roland SPD-S sampling pad for  effects including cowbells etc, you name it!Smile
 
The silent drum heads are Roland mesh heads, the durable material developed by NASA , a pair of sticks will last indefinitely on this surface, which is less abrasive than conventional heads.. The overall sound is sharp, clear with low bass, and sounds great through the PA or routed into the PC sound card, so I can practice anytime i like without waking half the neighbourhood. Wink 
 


* salivates *

this is exactly what I want to get one of these days
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Originally posted by p0mt3 p0mt3 wrote:

^Hey, Chase . . . who owns the Yamaha kit?


My Friend. Who came over to jam one day.
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Ah, I see . . . vey cool.
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