There's another episode in this series you can watch if you liked this one, I'll link to it this comment. Also, if I get enough views on this video I'll make more of them in the future :) th-cam.com/video/NLn1Wzgd2z8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SbKqdKmCn6X1R9Jz
That entirely DIY and 3d printed kit with the VR Controller is actually the most unique and creative drumkit in general I've ever seen! I wish the segment on it were longer, I NEED to hear it and see how it works. If it works well, then its also insanely impressive
Damn me too. From what it looks like, the guy made the VR app too to go with the hardware, and that's also very impressive. I wish I could look at the source code
Hey Justin! Thanks so much for including my kit at 10:35! Loved seeing all the other crazy sets out there! I have a few vids of me playing that kit on my YT channel if anyone wants to see how it looks and sounds to be played.
Thanks Justin for putting my kit on this video! It Made my day. It's amazing how creative people get ,there are some amazing kits here. Thanks again, Mike
That was a lot of fun checking out all the sets people have put together !!! That one dudes set with the most drum parts was totally insane !!! Going up the walls....WOW !!!!!!! I'd love to sit at that for a day or 3....lol Thanks to all the people who sent in great sets, and thanks Justin for putting it all together !!! The edrum world has some interesting set ups !!! Have a great day !!! :-) Ps Justin, I'll have to send you a pic of my Lekato set up attached to a TD6 module with drum splitters for shidz and giggles, it's something I took to the beach this summer to jam with my friends there...lol
This is by far, the most comprehensive review of electronic drums and kit technology on TH-cam, you should be proud of yourself Justin! If you were ranking them, the No.1 look and sound goes to Admeezy (IMO) How GOOD LOOKING is that DWe kit?? I agree with you that the Roland symbol combination matches beautifully, it’s CLEAN and understated, so very professional! Admeezy is raising the profile of ALL drummers by lighting up the kit, there’s so much movement and action there, it’s inspirational Thanks for sharing such a great video Justin
I absolutely LOVE the DIY stuff. I thought I was creative buying up extra rack components, repurposing clamps and hanging my laptop and other equipment off the rack but I am nothing but an amateur next to some of these. I was quite happy with mine until I saw these. Now I need a ton more pads. 😄
To answer your question @ 10:17...yes they are all actively installed on a 2TB external Samsung SSD drive and it takes up 1TB of the storage at the moment. Thanks for the feature Justin! 🤘😎
Hey Justin, Thanks for showing my (current) gigging kit. I feel honoured to get a mention with all the awesome kits on show. I would just like to point out though, Mike at Drone sold me the LV cymbals complete, I didn't convert them myself. An oversight on my part in the description. They were great for several years and I would still be using them. It was just a chance try out of the ATV cymbals that made me go over to rubber cymbals. The trade off of them playing a little better was not feeling as nice under-the-stick. You are right, it is a Gibraltar Stealth Rack set up. Trial and errors is definitely a good way to describe my journey, but for sure, less error than trial.
Mindblowing. The talent of these drummers, and their creativity with their edrum set ups is incredible. Almost makes me want to get back into drumming.
There were some wild kits on display. I bought a DXTremeII kit several years ago and then started buying extra bits for it. I could have had quite a good set up but I was to busy working and it was only my son playing it. I still have it and all the extra bits and bobs plus rack hardware that I'm trying to sell. I liked the 2 box set up. It' looked great.
15:47 the answer is it depends. If the sound effect is written into the drum book then I do it. Also, sometimes the person running sound doesn't have time to do a sound and they'll request that I do it. Thanks for including me! As time permits I'll put some video of these kits on my YT channel.
I missed the submission, but I have a conversation kit: Mapex shells, Pearl Tru-Trac pads all around, Jobeky e-cymbals, one DIY low volume crash, all tied to a Roland TD-17.
ya I got the lemon because of your recommendation. Just needed to flip the cables inside for the Yamaha head. They Work great and have dual zones which is nice and 3 zone ride.
Some incredible ingenuity in most of these kits. I really do prefer the kits that can pull off an acoustic stage presence over those that don't. They are just more appealing and interesting to look at but in the end it's how they perform that matters the most.
I started playing a "hybrid" kit way back in 1990/91 (my memory is a little fuzzy). I had a 5 piece acoustic kit and a pair of Roland SPD8 pads, one to either side of me. I've since played on every combination of acoustic and electronic percussion imaginable The biggest issue is setup and teardown. Unless you have a massive inheritance and don't have to hold down a job, the time involved in getting big hybrid or full-electronic kits to and from gigs is almost unmanageable. These days, I play live electronic music with a curved rack holding 4 different types of multipads and some floor pedals for kick, hat, program changes,. etc. It's still a bit of a hassle, but a lot less hassle than dealing with some of the kits in these clips I'm looking at most of the kits in this video and all I can think about is the time and effort involved in setup and teardown for live shows.
Love all these awesome e-kits! They are gorgeous! Thanks for including mine. Yes I definitely understand the hate for the lemon module it’s pretty bad it’s only used to trigger the fourth crash second china and left kick drum. So far it handles trigger accuracy well, but wouldn’t recommend for main module.
RTOM needs to make a version 2 of the Black Holes!! This time with built in 2 to 3 zone 360 degree triggering. That would hopefully solve everyone's gripe with internal triggers and the hassle of change over from acoustic drums to mesh heads and triggers?
I've begun converting my vintage (late 80's/early 90's?) Mapex Mars Series (12",16", 24") kit using a combination of Redshot triggers, Remo Silent Stroke heads, Lemon/Roland/Simmons cymbals, GoEdrum VH-11 hat controller, and a teeny weenie little Roland TD-4 module. My snare is actually an old Boom Theory Space Muffins 12" dual zone that I've basically DIY rebuilt. Seeing as I already had the the Mapex kit tucked away in storage with a bit of hardware? My overall DIY conversion investment has honestly been surprisingly low. zZounds pay while you play option also helped out a bit. Yet I can now admit that using single ply tom & kick heads with external triggers? Is definitely less than ideal. Especially with the previous Roland TD-6v module that I was using for sure. Less as much now with the TD-4 seeing as merely on a trigger response standpoint? The TD-4 as been a noticeably and dramatically better improvement. I'm honestly thinking about picking up a second TD-4 to expand (seeing as I got this one for only like $75), but ideally I'm aspiring to most likely go the eDRUMin route with a robust mobile interface and something like an old 2012 i7 16gb Macbook Pro. That would pretty much cover all my needs at a substantial budget for the time being. In closing? I can't say enough good things about the LEMON brand of cymbals, and I plan to eventually deck out my entirel DIY conversion project with them exclusively moving forward! Thank's Justin! I love the fantastic content man! CHeers!
On the DTX-8 bass drum mod that I did, I only needed to drill three holes in the KP90. Two in the metal frame and one the top as shown. I like how the KP90 feels and adding the mesh on top made no difference. Similar to using a patch.
Speaking personally, if I had spent as much time practising drums as I have spent buying and selling tweaking and messing around with them, then I would probably be a 25% better player. To be honest, half the fun is messing around with all this stuff. I see that I am not alone in the game😊
I would love to know the specifics of how he put the custom case together at 9:55!!!! There is a definite market for someone to produce a custom housing for the more plastic-y/25 pin snake modules like the TD27 where the sounds are good (yes I know - Roland - but shoot me - I don't mind them for live work!) but the module is less robust than it could be.
Obviously most gigging drummers bring a 4 or 5 piece kit, these kits in the video are mostly really fun home setups. But man, watching a singer nonchalantly walk to stage not even having to set up a mic to set up kills me. And then everyone wants to shake their hand afterword and tell them how awesome they are lol
I have a super budget (under $300aud) 24 peice kit run through 3 yamaha dtxplorers into a mixer to the computer but havnt got the software yet I only finished putting it together today sounds alright so far
Yikes. Some of these (men) people seem to have a very, very bad case of G.A.S. 😂. Me? I just want a four piece e-kit with rubber cymbals or those new Simmons half metal/half rubber pads. 😂
With the giant one, what are you even doing with that many pads? Even just the right side section. Are they meant to be melodically tuned like bozzio? Now i meed to see a vid of him and how he utilizes those
@@65Drums thank you for another awesome video! this video was one of the best yet! btw, i use OSC in my experimental music to control Max/MSP and Ableton with Max 4 Live. You can also control things like Resolume for VJs. My friend Matt Wright from CCRMA was one of the authors of the OSC spec so Im always telling people about it.
You can email it to me whenever, but I’m not gonna update to the next episode for quite a while yet. It’s hard to one up every previous entry in the series
I don’t think that’s really the point of mega setups. It’s like asking “how many guys who constantly work on their cars actually race them on a track?” It’s more about the process and just having fun.
Awesome video! Would you make a video of new recommendations for 2024 of electronic drum sets? Black friday is around the corner. Thanks for the great vids!
Hey Justin Can you help me, i got carlsbro cds500 , and when i use double pedal the trigger doesn’t work some times I tried different curves and sensitivity settings but it still same( My beater position near to the center of bass drum Maybe i need to try different beater position and different curves to this position Bass drum pad is the same like Alesis, Medeli and Millenuim Hope you understand, thx
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There's another episode in this series you can watch if you liked this one, I'll link to it this comment. Also, if I get enough views on this video I'll make more of them in the future :)
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This Channel is a Goldmine about E-drumming....
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That entirely DIY and 3d printed kit with the VR Controller is actually the most unique and creative drumkit in general I've ever seen! I wish the segment on it were longer, I NEED to hear it and see how it works. If it works well, then its also insanely impressive
Damn me too. From what it looks like, the guy made the VR app too to go with the hardware, and that's also very impressive. I wish I could look at the source code
This is a really cool video. Thanks for putting it together and thanks for including my modified Pearl DRX-1 kit.
I still have yet to find one of those in person, really interesting kit :)
Thanks for including me, Justin! Love seeing what everyone's doing!
Absolutely! glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Justin! Thanks so much for including my kit at 10:35! Loved seeing all the other crazy sets out there! I have a few vids of me playing that kit on my YT channel if anyone wants to see how it looks and sounds to be played.
Thanks Justin for putting my kit on this video! It Made my day. It's amazing how creative people get ,there are some amazing kits here.
Thanks again,
Mike
That was a lot of fun checking out all the sets people have put together !!!
That one dudes set with the most drum parts was totally insane !!!
Going up the walls....WOW !!!!!!!
I'd love to sit at that for a day or 3....lol
Thanks to all the people who sent in great sets, and thanks Justin for putting it all together !!!
The edrum world has some interesting set ups !!!
Have a great day !!!
:-)
Ps
Justin, I'll have to send you a pic of my Lekato set up attached to a TD6 module with drum splitters for shidz and giggles, it's something I took to the beach this summer to jam with my friends there...lol
This is by far, the most comprehensive review of electronic drums and kit technology on TH-cam, you should be proud of yourself Justin!
If you were ranking them, the No.1 look and sound goes to Admeezy (IMO)
How GOOD LOOKING is that DWe kit??
I agree with you that the Roland symbol combination matches beautifully, it’s CLEAN and understated, so very professional!
Admeezy is raising the profile of ALL drummers by lighting up the kit, there’s so much movement and action there, it’s inspirational
Thanks for sharing such a great video Justin
Terry Bozzio has influenced the edrum world apparently! Nice job everyone!
This turned out great man!
Thank you for including my kit 😀
Thanks for sending the video clips!
I absolutely LOVE the DIY stuff. I thought I was creative buying up extra rack components, repurposing clamps and hanging my laptop and other equipment off the rack but I am nothing but an amateur next to some of these.
I was quite happy with mine until I saw these. Now I need a ton more pads. 😄
You’re one of us 👀
It's amazing to see how the channel grew through the years! Keep up your awsome work!
Thank you so much for including me!
I feel so noticed! 😍
I just love staring at your setup.
Thanks for the music-less audio version! It really helped
@@Spacebornekiller ngl, I stare at it a lot too 😅
@@admeezydrums 😂 no one will blame you.
How could we not notice you behind lazer drums
This is such a cool video man. Love seeing all of these inspiring drum kits! Awesome job everyone!
Some of these guys really took it to the next level for sure!
To answer your question @ 10:17...yes they are all actively installed on a 2TB external Samsung SSD drive and it takes up 1TB of the storage at the moment. Thanks for the feature Justin! 🤘😎
Those sample libraries are massive lol
@@65Drumsnot doubt it's addicting! But people sell them cheaper on the Toontrack forums, so cost isn't too bad. Usually half off...
You keeping Toontrack in business all by yourself? 😂
@VegasLoungeAct lol. I doubt it but it's an addiction...like collecting comics.
This one is a fun one to watch, I love seeing these
This video is so incredibly cool. I love seeing the guys setups, also seeing that I'm not that crazy at all with my ridiculous setup.
One of us! One of us!
Some very impressive kit bashing going on in the community. Good to see that spirit of a bit of this and that still exists.
Hey Justin,
Thanks for showing my (current) gigging kit. I feel honoured to get a mention with all the awesome kits on show. I would just like to point out though, Mike at Drone sold me the LV cymbals complete, I didn't convert them myself. An oversight on my part in the description. They were great for several years and I would still be using them. It was just a chance try out of the ATV cymbals that made me go over to rubber cymbals. The trade off of them playing a little better was not feeling as nice under-the-stick.
You are right, it is a Gibraltar Stealth Rack set up.
Trial and errors is definitely a good way to describe my journey, but for sure, less error than trial.
Thanks for sending it in! I love the look
I love this video! So fun seeing other people's kit setups! Definitely got some inspiration for my own. Please keep doing these types of videos.
Super inspiring! Love to see the creative assembly of a variety of edrum parts.
That was so much fun! So many cool kits!
Mindblowing. The talent of these drummers, and their creativity with their edrum set ups is incredible. Almost makes me want to get back into drumming.
Lot of cool kits!! And great video Justin!!🥁😀👍
Thanks Zax!
Great video as always, Justin! There are some really cool and unusual kits that you showcased! Thanks a bunch!
There were some wild kits on display. I bought a DXTremeII kit several years ago and then started buying extra bits for it. I could have had quite a good set up but I was to busy working and it was only my son playing it.
I still have it and all the extra bits and bobs plus rack hardware that I'm trying to sell.
I liked the 2 box set up. It' looked great.
15:47 the answer is it depends. If the sound effect is written into the drum book then I do it. Also, sometimes the person running sound doesn't have time to do a sound and they'll request that I do it. Thanks for including me! As time permits I'll put some video of these kits on my YT channel.
Interesting so it sounds like it just depends on the show. Great set ups!
I missed the submission, but I have a conversation kit: Mapex shells, Pearl Tru-Trac pads all around, Jobeky e-cymbals, one DIY low volume crash, all tied to a Roland TD-17.
WoW. Really cool looking kits
Thankyou to the guy with the custom Yamaha kick for the inspiration. Going to make my own chopped 14 inch with a KP90
The amount of setup time for most of these kits is scary, but love the resulting cool factor for stage presence!
ya I got the lemon because of your recommendation. Just needed to flip the cables inside for the Yamaha head. They Work great and have dual zones which is nice and 3 zone ride.
Some incredible ingenuity in most of these kits. I really do prefer the kits that can pull off an acoustic stage presence over those that don't. They are just more appealing and interesting to look at but in the end it's how they perform that matters the most.
Yeah, I like acoustic size drums more as well. But I appreciate all set ups that are well thought out.
Setup my new efnote 5x from edrum center last week using your link. They're sick.
Awesome! it's a great kit, and thanks for supporting the channel in that way :)
I started playing a "hybrid" kit way back in 1990/91 (my memory is a little fuzzy). I had a 5 piece acoustic kit and a pair of Roland SPD8 pads, one to either side of me. I've since played on every combination of acoustic and electronic percussion imaginable
The biggest issue is setup and teardown. Unless you have a massive inheritance and don't have to hold down a job, the time involved in getting big hybrid or full-electronic kits to and from gigs is almost unmanageable.
These days, I play live electronic music with a curved rack holding 4 different types of multipads and some floor pedals for kick, hat, program changes,. etc. It's still a bit of a hassle, but a lot less hassle than dealing with some of the kits in these clips
I'm looking at most of the kits in this video and all I can think about is the time and effort involved in setup and teardown for live shows.
Another fantastic video, Justin. Thanks, mate!
Totally Sick man, people wonder why I keep 3 kits OMGOODNESSS at least now I have some comeback, thanks best channel for drums.😂🎉
Love all these awesome e-kits! They are gorgeous! Thanks for including mine. Yes I definitely understand the hate for the lemon module it’s pretty bad it’s only used to trigger the fourth crash second china and left kick drum. So far it handles trigger accuracy well, but wouldn’t recommend for main module.
I was surprised AliExpress even sold Drum racks. That was interesting
RTOM needs to make a version 2 of the Black Holes!!
This time with built in 2 to 3 zone 360 degree triggering. That would hopefully solve everyone's gripe with internal triggers and the hassle of change over from acoustic drums to mesh heads and triggers?
such a cool video man! great job
Still my favorite TH-cam channel still subbed till the end bro !!!
Thanks Mike!
thank you 🫵🏻 very much for including my set (23:10). some real crazy kits on here! be inspired 🥁
absolutely thanks for sending it in!
Super cool Video
I've begun converting my vintage (late 80's/early 90's?) Mapex Mars Series (12",16", 24") kit using a combination of Redshot triggers, Remo Silent Stroke heads, Lemon/Roland/Simmons cymbals, GoEdrum VH-11 hat controller, and a teeny weenie little Roland TD-4 module.
My snare is actually an old Boom Theory Space Muffins 12" dual zone that I've basically DIY rebuilt.
Seeing as I already had the the Mapex kit tucked away in storage with a bit of hardware?
My overall DIY conversion investment has honestly been surprisingly low.
zZounds pay while you play option also helped out a bit.
Yet I can now admit that using single ply tom & kick heads with external triggers? Is definitely less than ideal.
Especially with the previous Roland TD-6v module that I was using for sure.
Less as much now with the TD-4 seeing as merely on a trigger response standpoint?
The TD-4 as been a noticeably and dramatically better improvement.
I'm honestly thinking about picking up a second TD-4 to expand (seeing as I got this one for only like $75), but ideally
I'm aspiring to most likely go the eDRUMin route with a robust mobile interface and something like an old 2012 i7 16gb Macbook Pro.
That would pretty much cover all my needs at a substantial budget for the time being.
In closing?
I can't say enough good things about the LEMON brand of cymbals, and I plan to eventually deck out my entirel DIY conversion project with them exclusively moving forward!
Thank's Justin!
I love the fantastic content man!
CHeers!
Hey! *I* have a PM-16!! It's in very good condition, and still with the original box and power supply.
Awesome!
Somebody went Terry Bozzio on their edrums!
Bro, this video is solid.
Cool Freaky electronic set
2:40 At first glance I thought his band logo said "CHADS"
the dude with a million pads probably spends more time fixing it than playing it 😁
😂
i love it... drummers dont just hold the beat any more there like the lead guitar player
4:50 "Pack up your drums. We've got a gig at the VFW hall tonight. We get 50 dollars for the whole band plus 2 drink tickets each."
On the DTX-8 bass drum mod that I did, I only needed to drill three holes in the KP90. Two in the metal frame and one the top as shown. I like how the KP90 feels and adding the mesh on top made no difference. Similar to using a patch.
Speaking personally, if I had spent as much time practising drums as I have spent buying and selling tweaking and messing around with them, then I would probably be a 25% better player. To be honest, half the fun is messing around with all this stuff. I see that I am not alone in the game😊
I totally get it, Sometimes the gear is part of the experience. Same thing in the camera industry or the car industry.
Please AmpuleAudio show us more of that insane diy kit!
I would love to know the specifics of how he put the custom case together at 9:55!!!! There is a definite market for someone to produce a custom housing for the more plastic-y/25 pin snake modules like the TD27 where the sounds are good (yes I know - Roland - but shoot me - I don't mind them for live work!) but the module is less robust than it could be.
Does the guy with the monster drum set (@04:30) have a TH-cam channel? I'm curious to see what he does with it.
I don't think so. When I messaged him, he never sent me a link to a channel where he played it
He is probably building that kit for Mike Mangini 😂
The size of some of these kits make me so glad I play bass. Lugging all that around is so daunting.
Obviously most gigging drummers bring a 4 or 5 piece kit, these kits in the video are mostly really fun home setups. But man, watching a singer nonchalantly walk to stage not even having to set up a mic to set up kills me. And then everyone wants to shake their hand afterword and tell them how awesome they are lol
4:45 Terry Bozzio would be proud of that dude...
I have a super budget (under $300aud) 24 peice kit run through 3 yamaha dtxplorers into a mixer to the computer but havnt got the software yet I only finished putting it together today sounds alright so far
Australia is so expensive!! I think I may need to shop overseas for a Roland kit !! Why is it so cheap in USA ???
Yikes. Some of these (men) people seem to have a very, very bad case of G.A.S. 😂.
Me? I just want a four piece e-kit with rubber cymbals or those new Simmons half metal/half rubber pads. 😂
Second kit…I get the feeling the drummer was inspired by Terry Bozzio and Keith Emerson!!
lol edrums and a whole lotta other things about to cost a whole lot more here in the ol US of A soon!!
With the giant one, what are you even doing with that many pads? Even just the right side section. Are they meant to be melodically tuned like bozzio? Now i meed to see a vid of him and how he utilizes those
OSC = Open Sound Control, it's a UDP network standard to send music data over the internet.
Thanks! The description didn't explain much so I didn't really understand what I was looking at. Very interesting and creative combo of VR and drums
@@65Drums thank you for another awesome video! this video was one of the best yet!
btw, i use OSC in my experimental music to control Max/MSP and Ableton with Max 4 Live. You can also control things like Resolume for VJs. My friend Matt Wright from CCRMA was one of the authors of the OSC spec so Im always telling people about it.
After playing DWe Cymbals for about 6 months I couldn't go back to rubber cymbals
thoughts on alesis strata core? worth the price?
Don’t buy that drum set right now, the modules are very buggy. They need to fix it with a software patch.
You should send a guy out to my place. Dudley Creek Studio. Just Sayin'.
Hi, Justin! I have 5 electronic drum kits, but surely i don't know about this challenge. When i can send to you pictures and description?)) thanks
You can email it to me whenever, but I’m not gonna update to the next episode for quite a while yet. It’s hard to one up every previous entry in the series
How many of these people with the mega e-kits actually play gigs with other musicians on these kits ?
I don’t think that’s really the point of mega setups. It’s like asking “how many guys who constantly work on their cars actually race them on a track?” It’s more about the process and just having fun.
Awesome video! Would you make a video of new recommendations for 2024 of electronic drum sets? Black friday is around the corner. Thanks for the great vids!
wait till you see my drums
consists of... midi keyboard👀
Gasp!!
Hey Justin
Can you help me, i got carlsbro cds500 , and when i use double pedal the trigger doesn’t work some times
I tried different curves and sensitivity settings but it still same(
My beater position near to the center of bass drum
Maybe i need to try different beater position and different curves to this position
Bass drum pad is the same like Alesis, Medeli and Millenuim
Hope you understand, thx
4:24 I think he likes yamaha
now imagine trying to figure all of this out while also being an ADHD person
And then the power goes out... Well wtf
Same for the keyboard player, or the electric guitar. Or 99% of what we use in daily life
^
Interested in the DIY buttkicker. 26:01
I’d like to see it too, but he didn’t send a photo of it
@65Drums
I will get some pics this week, it's not real pretty ,butt,it works great, and it was easy and inexpensive to do
Where would you be posting those pics and info? Thanks!
@@jjhodges I just attached the transducer to the bottom of my throne
Every drum tech that watched this….HAS QUIT.
Seriously there are no need for drum techs now that everyone has access to all this stuff online and can just do it themselves
And every drummer who watches this (including me) now wants to quit knowing we'll never have a set up like that
seeing sonars turned into e drums makes my tummy sad
4:41 that has to be ai right?
I still have a Korg DRM1! Wanna buy it ? For sale no remote sorry...
Costed
some of the modules are just for midi into a drum plug in...
Some keyboard players do the same thing. But the quality of the module still makes a difference for trigger accuracy at the very least.
Exijo la parte dos , y yo quiero estar ahí, lo merezco
Soy de Colombia 🇨🇴
Chaos Drums mentioned, Josh! @RECHCYMBALS
@@Acoustic2Electronic Chaos all the way!