( My first post! Be nice 
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Okay ... forgive me ... completely completely completely new to the drumming world.
Oh ... just to let you know, I am completely new to the drumming world.
A little background. I am a father of 5 kids, my older two 10 and 11 have been playing piano now for about 5 years. My mother had a late 90's Yamaha Clavinova digital piano that I hijacked and used for the first 3 or 4 years. Actually, I still use it. My oldest however started playing songs where the notes needed to be held for several measures (8+ beats) that my older Clavinova simply could not hold. So our piano teacher said we need a new piano. To her shock ... I purchased another new 2009/10 CLP-340 (I think) Clavinova.
Now ... I am a fan of the digital pianos simply due to the fact that my kids can plug in their head phones, and I don't hear a thing. My younger kids can nap, and family life can in short resume without the piano drowning everything else out. Surprisingly even with the headphones on, the piano can still be heard as those kids can still pound and thump on those keys and foot pedals depending on how expressive the song may be.
However, after trying the 340 out, the piano teacher could not praise it enough. One day, I may eventually have to bite the bullet and get an acoustic piano ... for now though, I am totally fine with the digital.
I now have a child getting into drums. Right now he is in the "trial" phase and just has a drum pad to master his accuracy and hand positioning. His birthday is in a few months, so assuming the "trial" phase works out, I will be purchasing a drum kit. As mentioned above, I am a fan of the "electronic" versions because I can still have a "quiet" home at the end of the day.
For better or for worse, I have always ended up back to the Yamaha "brand" and so I am looking at the DTX series. I have noticed the Roland TD-4/11/15 kits too and are sitting around my price range. My impression though that I have been able to Google is that folks seem to feel that the new Yamaha pads are more "realistic" (versus the Roland being too bouncy) and the Yamaha in general sounds better than the Roland (real sound samples versus modeled). I get this is a personal taste thing too.
Finally my question:
Some models DTX535 for example offer the 10 inch pad. Others, like the DTX560, offer the 8 inch pads.
What does that two inches get me?
My apologies for the long post. Any other tips and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for your patience.
)Okay ... forgive me ... completely completely completely new to the drumming world.
Oh ... just to let you know, I am completely new to the drumming world.
A little background. I am a father of 5 kids, my older two 10 and 11 have been playing piano now for about 5 years. My mother had a late 90's Yamaha Clavinova digital piano that I hijacked and used for the first 3 or 4 years. Actually, I still use it. My oldest however started playing songs where the notes needed to be held for several measures (8+ beats) that my older Clavinova simply could not hold. So our piano teacher said we need a new piano. To her shock ... I purchased another new 2009/10 CLP-340 (I think) Clavinova.
Now ... I am a fan of the digital pianos simply due to the fact that my kids can plug in their head phones, and I don't hear a thing. My younger kids can nap, and family life can in short resume without the piano drowning everything else out. Surprisingly even with the headphones on, the piano can still be heard as those kids can still pound and thump on those keys and foot pedals depending on how expressive the song may be.
However, after trying the 340 out, the piano teacher could not praise it enough. One day, I may eventually have to bite the bullet and get an acoustic piano ... for now though, I am totally fine with the digital.
I now have a child getting into drums. Right now he is in the "trial" phase and just has a drum pad to master his accuracy and hand positioning. His birthday is in a few months, so assuming the "trial" phase works out, I will be purchasing a drum kit. As mentioned above, I am a fan of the "electronic" versions because I can still have a "quiet" home at the end of the day.
For better or for worse, I have always ended up back to the Yamaha "brand" and so I am looking at the DTX series. I have noticed the Roland TD-4/11/15 kits too and are sitting around my price range. My impression though that I have been able to Google is that folks seem to feel that the new Yamaha pads are more "realistic" (versus the Roland being too bouncy) and the Yamaha in general sounds better than the Roland (real sound samples versus modeled). I get this is a personal taste thing too.
Finally my question:
Some models DTX535 for example offer the 10 inch pad. Others, like the DTX560, offer the 8 inch pads.
What does that two inches get me?
My apologies for the long post. Any other tips and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for your patience.
