Want Octobans or classic black beauty snare? Load them in! If there’s a sound you can’t find in the hundreds of built-in sounds, sample import allows you to load your favourite drum sounds into the module to create your very own library of favourite sounds. Simply connect headphones or amplifier to the module and you’re ready to play. Using an electronic kit allows the overall level in the room to be controlled which helps give a cleaner sound.īasically, with V-Drums, the miking and technical side has already been done for you. All the other instruments in the band need to be amplified to compete with the kit which means the overall level will be high to start with. In smaller venues, a major problem with acoustic drums is that they set the minimum volume level. The player gets the instant acoustic sound and the amplified sound and adjusts to that whereas the audience mostly gets the amplified/electric drum sound with some of the live stage sound too for better or worse as that part of the sound is not controllable and often referred to negatively by engineers as ‘bleed’. Live drums in anything but the smallest of venues always require amplification too so they are hardly natural sounding. This means you can have a highly tuned 10″ tom sound with the feel of a 12″ tom or a nice loose floor tom with the perfect pitch and tone you like.Įvery drum sound you’ve ever heard on a recording or live on stage has been electrified so really is already an electronic interpretation of a drum if you think about it! Multi-ply heads provide less bounce and even lower volume than standard mesh ply heads found on other electronic kits that can tend to feel like playing on tennis rackets in comparison.Įach V-Drum can be adjusted for the ideal playing tension independtly of its tuning pitch.

Mesh head thicknesses are chosen to suit the drum too. Unaffected by heat and with no tuning needed, Roland V-Drums feature multi-ply, adjustable tension mesh drum heads that feel great without too much bounce straight out of the box. Mesh heads give the feel and response of an acrylic head stretched over a drum but are significantly more durable and very quiet. Roland and Remo worked together on designing the mesh heads used today with V-Drums.

Electronic drums have come along way since the diabolical, wrist-shattering, hexagonal shaped riot shields of the 80’s.

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