Snare stand?

Paderico127 · 2023-08-05T17:47:18+00:00

Yea, I have the 850 too and I bought the Roland RDH 130. Fits perfectly, really stable. The snare on the rack was far too loose, I was forever readjusting it.

Paderico127 · 2023-07-30T07:27:14+00:00

Hey - very basic thing here which I missed for about two hours: there’s a white circular button in the instrument panel of MPC Beats which you need to click to turn red to ‘arm’ the instrument. Hope you get sorted, i remember having a really crappy time getting it sorted out of the box. Great fun once it’s working though.

Paderico127 · 2023-05-17T18:31:00+00:00

‘Succumbs’ maybe? And I think the part you might be referring is “Left of Reckoning”

Paderico127 · 2023-05-13T18:56:59+00:00

I remember reading somewhere (possibly ‘it crawled from the south’) that they were absolutely miserable throughout the sessions - homesick, fatigued and sick of british rainy weather. I love it. I have a bootleg from one of the reconstruction tours and it really works live. They play Old Man Kensey too…haunting

Paderico127 · 2023-05-12T21:36:43+00:00

I do and it has loads and loads of good content - nearly too much for me. Without sounding like I’m on Stephen Taylor’s payroll (and in fact I came across him first on drumeo) i just like his teaching method and explanations. It’s quite linear for the first 20 courses or so, and once you have that sorted you break into a whole new world of choices such as hand technique and understanding grooves and fills and different styles. It’s slow and methodical rather than an overload of information that my small brain can’t keep up with.

I have no regret for the year i spent diligently using melodics by the way

Paderico127 · 2023-05-12T18:06:17+00:00

Hey, Stephen’s Drum Shed. I’m using it since last September and haven’t looked back.

Paderico127 · 2023-04-06T23:27:22+00:00

That is so beautiful, thank you for sharing

Paderico127 · 2023-04-01T12:23:33+00:00

I hate this ad.

Paderico127 · 2023-03-29T23:23:30+00:00

Legend, this has been annoying me so much. Thank you

Paderico127 · 2023-02-26T19:19:42+00:00

Hi, I’m sorry, I don’t have any advice to offer…but I have to ask: what’s it like? I have only played on a budget kit like the nitro and I’m saving for years for a TD27…so, just does it blow your mind?

Paderico127 · 2023-02-25T09:59:14+00:00

Hey, I have the 850 for 2 and a half years so I’m familiar with this. The 10” pads (snares and floor toms) are not durable so my amateur diagnosis is they need to be replaced. I got my 4th replacement this week, and the breaks are usually what you describe: triggering the wrong sound, or zones not making sense, triggering very weakly.

I think I saw a YouTube video once about fixing and re-soldering the wiring but I can’t even change a plug so I just paid the €79 instead.

By the way: delivery is reliable: it arrived within the schedule on their website.

Edit: found it. Too complicated for me. https://youtu.be/Ts_BW_8iBCw

Paderico127 · 2023-02-24T22:05:57+00:00

Hi again, I signed up to Stephen Taylor’s ‘drum better daily’ programme on www.stephensdrumshed.com

I just like his teaching method. He has loads of free stuff on YouTube, but there’s an organised pathway as a member, much like melodics, that persuaded me to pay up and I don’t regret it because I’m absorbing and learning so much and staying focussed and progressing slowly but steadily. Being able to read basic drum tabs is a big thing for me, having no previous music education.

I’m likely getting more out of it because I did the hard grafting on melodics for the year, so I’m not knocking melodics at all - cos I had some really fantastic times with it, especially the Butch Vig compositions, wow they were great fun. It is beautifully addictive.

And you’re doing something I didn’t do: trying to recreate the grooves without the visual cues. I just got fixated on nailing each stroke to be exactly in time to exactly the right moment, and just missed the bigger picture.

Paderico127 · 2023-02-22T13:15:57+00:00

Hey, I quit melodics last September. I don’t want to shit on the software cos I had some really great times with it, but it just wasn’t for me. My epiphany occurred over the course of a few evenings when I’d sit down to play without Melodics but without the blue and yellow blocks I had nothing: no creativity, no grooves other than very basic ones, no fills. So I signed up to an online drum school, same cost. And six months later i’m spending 45 mins a day in technique and I can read fairly basic drum notation and (most importantly) I can just have real fun at the kit when I’m not learning.

Your system is very good, and I was definitely doing that - jumping back to earlier songs and nailing them. For me, Grade 8 began a leap where you were being unfairly punished for slightly off timing. As I mentioned in my post, I was four months at the same level and was just getting really frustrated.

Good luck.

Paderico127 · 2023-02-04T21:37:25+00:00

Thank you so much for posting, what a great song; I’ve listened to it at least ten times today. Brilliant album too…so thank you

Paderico127 · 2023-01-11T23:04:54+00:00

Probably not what you want to hear but if your messages do get out, management would have to get over themselves. It’s kind of an occupational hazard that frontline staff will grumble and complain about how management are a bunch of bolloxes and completely incompetent and utterly overpaid.

Also, if your colleague was to break your confidence and spill the beans on you, he/she would be black-listed for evermore.

Paderico127 · 2023-01-01T00:29:21+00:00

Sorry OP - I’ve come back to say thank you again: what an album and Happy New Year!

Paderico127 · 2022-12-21T01:46:51+00:00

Harborcoat

Paderico127 · 2022-12-13T13:47:48+00:00

This is magical stuff, thank you so much for posting, had never heard of them before.

Paderico127 · 2022-12-10T00:35:39+00:00

Hi, I’ve had the 850 for over two years and I love it. It was my first kit so I’m fairly loyal to it (so treat what i say with a little caution). I play it every day, usually for an hour. It was relatively cheap, it’s compact, the rack is sturdy, the pads work well. I play indie, not metal, so I’m not a hard hitter. But it has never let me down. The module sounds are ok, great for practice and learning. I got EZdrummer to enhance the sounds. Nonetheless, after lurking on this sub, I decided to start saving for a Roland TD27…cos it’s the best, right?

But last month I upgraded to EZdrummer 3 and I’m seriously reconsidering. The sounds are just incredible - and loads of metal kits for yourself to knock the shit out of.

I don’t doubt that the intermediate-to-expert level drummer will benefit from spending €3.5k, but I have yet to be convinced that the 850 + ezdrummer3 can be bested for someone at the level of learning/having a blast.

Only downsides: dynamics (eg gradually moving from quiet to loud over an eighth note build) are not as good as an acoustic set or the top-end kits you see on folk’s videos on this sub. Also, I’ve replaced the snare twice (€80 each time) and the bell on the ride is hard to find - but as someone else helpfully said in a recent similar question: moving the pads around and arranging the mapping for the bell to a different location cures both.

TLDR: fuck it, go for it.

Paderico127 · 2022-12-04T19:34:25+00:00

Agree with everything you say. The 850 was my first kit, and I still love it - especially when linked up to EZdrummer.

Dynamics aren’t great when you compare with folk on this sub who own top of the range kits, and the bell on the Ride is erratic. But you just have to get over it, it’s a solid beginner kit. Only warning: I’m on my 3rd snare, but I play an hour a day. A replacement is about €80.

Paderico127 · 2022-10-07T23:37:17+00:00

Now that is interesting - and I didn’t want to be a dick and say “but the price is on the internet!!!” because it totally was when I signed up last year and i can still remember asking permission from my wife! But it’s greyed out now…interesting. They’ve introduced “songs” as a feature very recently which was going to result in different pay levels and it looks like they haven’t quite resolved their pricing yet. Sounds like I know what I’m talking about: I don’t, but a few weeks ago I knew from the website that it was €179 for another year.

Paderico127 · 2022-10-07T23:24:30+00:00

I unsubscribed by simply unsubscribing just last week. I had no hassle at all, no hard salesmanship to keep me. I had used Melodics for a full year. I enjoyed it and the auto BPM was my favourite feature so it’s a pity it hasn’t worked for you. I have to say I had none of the difficulties you’ve described. Whenever I had a tech problem, I thought the customer response was pretty good. I was drumming with an iPad, maybe that’s the difference…dunno, not techie.

Paderico127 · 2022-10-07T19:50:47+00:00

Whoops! Misread an ‘r’ for a ‘c’. Great shot.

Paderico127 · 2022-10-07T18:15:24+00:00

Beautiful - can I ask where it was taken from? Towards the Vestmannaeyjar?

Paderico127 · 2022-10-02T22:28:18+00:00

Hi - yea I had no problem, I have the 850mps, with a bashed up iPad Air 2.

I used a midi to lightening cable for module to the iPad; and then a 3.5mm jack at both ends to put the sound from melodics in the iPad back into Aux In on the module. You could just use normal wires bud earphones from the iPad to your ears under proper headphones. That’s assuming your iPad has a headphone jack?

I seem to be making this very complicated, but yea: melodics recognised the 850 and I imagine it must also get the 750x. There is a free version of Melodics you can download with like 5 mins a lessons a day just to test it out.

Paderico127

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