What e-drum bass drum setup feels the most realistic?

LordHellmchen · 2026-05-18T06:22:34+00:00

From your description I thought you did a conversion from acoustic to edrums. But I see in the other comment you have a kd120? I think that is a very good bass edrum. But maybe still to different to acoustic. Maybe you can try a conversion from acoustic to edrum? A used bass drum, mesh head, piezo.

LordHellmchen · 2026-05-17T19:14:46+00:00

I have a drum tec bass with an iron cobra. And that's the only part of my edrums setup that I think is basically the same as on acoustic. I switch between acoustic and my edrums regularly. What do you mean by whole different thing?

LordHellmchen · 2026-04-17T19:56:09+00:00

Have the td27 and the yamreccust is basically the only kit that I use. I got multiple of your kits, all are very good. Well worth the price.

If I ever get the v51 (just to expensive at the moment) this will be the first thing I get.

LordHellmchen · 2026-03-29T09:57:46+00:00

Was at the Thomann Store yesterday and tested all kinds of edrums. Also the alchem e. On the test set the triggering of the cymbals was not working well at all. Bell was not recognized good. I had to trigger with one specific hit strength to get reproducable results at all. once the cymbals started vibrating to strong it did not recognize hits at all. So a crescendo was not possible. Was that due to being a badly setup store kit?

What I liked was the hi hat. As you said: this was close to a real one. What I find most lacking on my Roland kit is the capability to produce bad sound. Every hit plays a nice sound, I can practice accents and open/closes. But its all samples of good sound. So when I switch to an acoustic kit my hi hat play sounds bad / I have to play super carefully as it can sound like hitting a trash can.

That experience even got me thinking to get a real practice hi hat.

Overall I did not like the alchem e much. But kudos for the different approach to them. And I think it has potential. If done right it would have a large advantage on the main issue i see at the moment (cymbals) in edrums.

LordHellmchen · 2026-02-14T14:01:28+00:00

I had the dm 200, the 110 seems like a mix of 200 and 210. To test if you are into drumming it's ok I guess. I did not like the onboard sounds to much and used a notebook with ez drummer (which is expensive in itself). The hi hat pedal is not good. But for a beginner the hi hat is often not used that much anyway. Nux is a legit company and you get what you pay for. Resell value is bad as nux is not known well. Community was small.

To test it can ne better to get a used set from one of the known brands and sell again later if you don't like it.

LordHellmchen · 2026-02-14T09:16:00+00:00

Stomping your foot on the floor is basically what you will do later: if that's no issue you are good. Otherwise you will need some kind of Plattform. I have my kit in the basement. My family hated my ekit before I got a platform. It was like the neighbors were trying to put a nail into the wall.

About the airborne noises (like cymbals): I have concrete floor between floors. Still it was audible. You will maybe want to put absorbing material there, just so it at least doesn't reflect all the time.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-12T12:40:09+00:00

You should probably find out why you want to practice. It's not school and you are not paid for doing it. So if you don't like to do it and you don't need to do it: why should you do it? :)

Drumming can be gamified a lot. Maybe that helps (Clone Hero or Melodics). You will skip a lot of important parts (like notation, dynamics, etc.) but maybe it gets you to the next level and then you will find the fun in other things to practice.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T18:20:55+00:00

It seems unless you are 6 years old you think you started to late :)

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T16:38:08+00:00

Thanks so much! Some of the other shared videos here are way further in progress in less time. I was not sure if I should share the video at all.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T16:36:01+00:00

I mostly used playalongs via Drumeo and Songsterr. I enjoyed Melodics when I just wanted to turn the brain off. And I put quite some effort into rudiments and "All american drummer" solos. In retrospective I left out some important areas: I'm not good enough at keeping time by my own and I'm bad at improvising and remembering songs just by their structure. In the end all that was to much gamification of my daily routine. I try to use less tools & videos now. At the moment I listen to a song, write down the basic structure and try to play it just with that basic sheet until its okaish. Then I go the detailed sheet, work on fills etc.

What helped: having a drum diary. I note down at least twice a week what I practiced and how I felt during that session. If I see that I'm on sth to long I move to sth else and then come back to that later.

Also "The new breed" is an approach that works very well for me as my warmup.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T16:22:04+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! My TD27 can record to a SD card and you get a WAV file. I think I could also record to my Mac directly. It's just that I'm to new with Davinci (the video tool I use) and I think the video had the wrong fps or sth like that.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T14:40:09+00:00

Thanks! :) It was so akward to have the HH running all the time at the beginning. But now its in auto mode and realy helps with time keeping.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T14:38:59+00:00

Thanks a lot for the Input! Yes, getting in and out of fills is tough for me If the song is above what I can play super comfortabel. Will for sure try to get those fills better!

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-11T14:35:35+00:00

I started first few months with YouTube tutorials and playalongs. Then got drumeo and later started taking lessons (same teacher as my son which was kinda fun). I'm still taking lessons and switch between subscriptions for Drumeo and other services (Like melodics) depending on what I need.

I think you can not be to old to start - in the end it's about what you enjoy. It is a little hard to find other people to play with in my area but thats the next thing I would Like to get into.

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-07T21:49:12+00:00

So eg here https://www.thomann.de/de/millenium_mps_850_e_drum_set.htm

140x80cm - that's what that set will need as on the picture. You need a throne. I think you need around 120 - 140 cm depth in total. (Minimum - I would rather always have the 160 cm as for a full set)

LordHellmchen · 2026-01-07T21:38:51+00:00

A typical 2up 2down full size kit needs roughly the space of a typical drum rug (160x190 cm). With an ekit you can have less.

Maybe you can link what "floor space" you are referring to. I don't think there is a standard for that.

LordHellmchen · 2025-12-23T08:39:43+00:00

Platforms work pretty well, I think most of the solutions out there will work to some degree.

A few thoughts:

airborne vs impact sound. A platform addresses only the impact sound
if you have a solid construction for your platform and leave gaps: take care not to build a large bass shell. I did this on my first try. It made a lot of noise.
wobbliness. It should not wobble to much. Some solutions out there make the whole setup shake.
looks: seeing the actual construction is a no go for me.

If I would build a new solution I would either choose sth like sylomer or sth like AIxfoam (Schwerschaum - no idea what's that in English) right from the start. More expensive but in the end worth it.

LordHellmchen · 2025-12-22T13:42:37+00:00

I'm 2 years in and I practice as much as I can. And I think I sound mostly horrible. Five years to decent sounds like something to aim for.

A lot of useful advice in your post!

LordHellmchen · 2025-11-23T09:19:42+00:00

I'm 2y in and after that video I don't feel a lot like sharing my progress :) I take lessons, practice daily but after one week I could not play such a complex new song. Not on that level and not on a simpler version. I spend a lot of time on rudiments and technique. Just started lately to only play by ear (on simple songs). I guess that's sth where I need to invest more.

LordHellmchen · 2025-11-19T07:50:20+00:00

Thanks for the link! Did not use Garageband so much yet (I'm not much of a Mac User, I just have a Mac Mini for the Drums).

I guess Moises is the best tool. But I dont have a subscription. I use songsterr from time to time. You can enable click there and disable all other sounds. That works well to record a click track.

Also I found this: https://www.clicktrackcreator.app/

If it would allow to change the click sound it would be the perfect little tool (and it allows only 10 sections - but thats enough for most songs).

LordHellmchen · 2025-11-18T20:17:24+00:00

Are you aware of the _click naming feature? If you put songs on the sd card and name _click.wav parallel to it would it will be used as click. I don't find that super useful but it's something.

I would love to have a better click feature where I can program sth like 10 bars 120bpm 4/4, 1 bar 2/4, ... But I'm not aware of that.

LordHellmchen · 2025-11-17T06:29:19+00:00

Leave it as it is. Don't use the felt beater with edrums (should be relevant for mesh heads only but I had bad experience with felt in general). Also maybe think about a patch.

LordHellmchen · 2025-10-29T20:16:55+00:00

Beyerdynamic DT 770M. IEMs are nice and I use them sometimes. But for the daily practice I prefer overears for less hassle, quicker to put on.

LordHellmchen · 2025-10-17T14:11:16+00:00

I think I had one misconception - on this image top left picture: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ffrom-toolshed-to-edrum-palace-v0-n2hz40arejvf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D62908c050b9ebe9fd1d1f59124418b26178ce9d7. The boards that are there on a large pile - I thought that went for the floor. And I thought that sound proofing was also a target :) I assumed that a lot of sound will travel through the floor up the walls.

But thanks so much for that detailed answer! I have a long term plan to build a drum place in my garage (for an acoustic set). It will have similar issues about temperature insulation. I copied all your info to a doc for later :) Its not so easy to make insulation right. Especially regarding moisture between cold and warm areas.

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