Forums Archive Index > General Chat > I traded up for bigger and better...

Author: NurseDaddy

Date: 30 Dec 2005 11:09 am

but it's not my snowblower, which by the way it looks like I wont get to use for a while, seeing as it's so warm these days. (It's gonna hit almost 50 today).

What I did upgrade is the electronic drum set I bought a couple of weeks ago. Much as I did after buying my Ariens 7524, I started to think I should have bought a bigger and badder set of e-drums.

First I went back to the store and got a price adjustment on the set I got because they had a VIP sale not a week later and I could have paid less. With the money they refunded I bought a pair of headphones. What a difference a good pair of headphones makes. Then I kept thinking about the next step up in the Roland line-up. Only that was significantly more money that I don't even have. But I was not satisfied with what I got, so I did a little research. I found a price for the kit I wanted that was 1400 under list price, and $905 under the price the music store had them for. The music store - Sam Ash - matched the price, so I returned the first set for the better set. Wow. What a difference. It just so happens the new kit cost about twice as much as the first set. And the top of the line can probably had for an additional $1400 on top of that... don't think I have not considered it. But no way. I'm gonna stick with the set I've got now. They look like this, but with black "shells" and white "skins".



So I've been feverishly playing, enjoying those drums a great deal, and hanging around a forum for e-drum enthusiasts. I've already gotten some good info there, as well as found a way to purchase custom kits that you can load into the drum module to make the set sound like any of 50 Top Drummers, and 50 bands from the 80's and 90's.

Lots of fun.

Hope it snows so I can get out from behind my drumset and get myself behind the snowblower for a change.

Be well everybody. Happy New Year!

ND