Dr_Watso
Platinum Member
E-kits are so much flippin fun when you first get them.
After a year or two though, the novelty will not be there. You'll have one or two custom kit settings you really use, and the rest gets ignored unless you're really bored or something.
Still a great practice tool, but I have a very hard time getting real musical enjoyment out of playing the e-kit. I find myself frustrated in the expression department. The one thing I still really love is that I can pipe in external music from my phone and mix it so that things sound good and I can still hear everything. Much harder to accomplish with a real kit.
It's also not at all something a very new player will notice as much, but there's sort of a "if you haven't tried real strawberries, you might think the strawberry candies are good and an accurate representation" kinda thing. New players don't have all the techniques a developed player spent years working on and learning how to pull different sounds from the drums and cymbals; basically anything they do will sound good and all techniques will produce the same sounds. This also leads to some false confidence since pretty much no matter how you hit an e-drum the sound will be "perfect".
And that concludes my un-asked-for opinion of e-kits.
The point of this is that if as a new drummer you're looking to buy an e-kit, don't spend so much money on it. All those extra features and fantastic samples or sounds you're paying for will likely end up neglected and it may be a glorified practice pad. Stick with the big names, but don't over-buy and consider used gear as well.
Edit: these are general statements, I do not know the OP, or know if they are new or anything else.
After a year or two though, the novelty will not be there. You'll have one or two custom kit settings you really use, and the rest gets ignored unless you're really bored or something.
Still a great practice tool, but I have a very hard time getting real musical enjoyment out of playing the e-kit. I find myself frustrated in the expression department. The one thing I still really love is that I can pipe in external music from my phone and mix it so that things sound good and I can still hear everything. Much harder to accomplish with a real kit.
It's also not at all something a very new player will notice as much, but there's sort of a "if you haven't tried real strawberries, you might think the strawberry candies are good and an accurate representation" kinda thing. New players don't have all the techniques a developed player spent years working on and learning how to pull different sounds from the drums and cymbals; basically anything they do will sound good and all techniques will produce the same sounds. This also leads to some false confidence since pretty much no matter how you hit an e-drum the sound will be "perfect".
And that concludes my un-asked-for opinion of e-kits.
The point of this is that if as a new drummer you're looking to buy an e-kit, don't spend so much money on it. All those extra features and fantastic samples or sounds you're paying for will likely end up neglected and it may be a glorified practice pad. Stick with the big names, but don't over-buy and consider used gear as well.
Edit: these are general statements, I do not know the OP, or know if they are new or anything else.