In a covers band you expect the guitarist to adopt a tone suitable for the song, the same for the keys and bass.... shouldn't drummers do the same thing?
I joined a covers band last year and we rehearse at the guitarists house. He has a large room kitted out with everything we need including a fairly decent electronic drum kit and for convenience sake I use it. The first gig I did with them was a, very, posh party, not too small a room to play but they did want to put us a small corner and they didn't want it loud. Consequently I used the guitarists electronic kit. A couple of revelations for me; the overall mix out the pa was excellent and we could keep the volume acceptable, I programmed the kit with sounds as close to the original songs as I could get and people commented on that afterwards, special effects and triggers were easy to incorporate, and I didn't take up much space.
Now, admittedly it wasn't as much fun as playing my gizillion dollar exotic veneer finished kit with custom cymbals hand hammered by magic fairies in Istanbul.... but the audience didn't care. And the lessened visual impact of an electronic kit on stage is, I think, outweighed by the different sounds it can deliver.
So, now I've bought a DTX6 and no matter what size the venue, that gets used.
I joined a covers band last year and we rehearse at the guitarists house. He has a large room kitted out with everything we need including a fairly decent electronic drum kit and for convenience sake I use it. The first gig I did with them was a, very, posh party, not too small a room to play but they did want to put us a small corner and they didn't want it loud. Consequently I used the guitarists electronic kit. A couple of revelations for me; the overall mix out the pa was excellent and we could keep the volume acceptable, I programmed the kit with sounds as close to the original songs as I could get and people commented on that afterwards, special effects and triggers were easy to incorporate, and I didn't take up much space.
Now, admittedly it wasn't as much fun as playing my gizillion dollar exotic veneer finished kit with custom cymbals hand hammered by magic fairies in Istanbul.... but the audience didn't care. And the lessened visual impact of an electronic kit on stage is, I think, outweighed by the different sounds it can deliver.
So, now I've bought a DTX6 and no matter what size the venue, that gets used.