Drumming is a serious workout. I played a gig on Saturday, and according to my Apple Watch- burned just over 2,000kcal. Means the post show kebab doesn’t count
Repairing electronics gets a lot less intimidating once you realize just how often you can simply spot the component with a big shitstain around it and replace it without having to understand how the component or circuit works.
Yep, I scored a lot of car stereos and practice amps in the late 80s/early 90s by unsoldering the burnt out looking bit and taking it into Tandy or Dick Smiths, getting a replacement for 20 cents, and soldering it in, usually, just by melting the old solder. "If you can fix it, you can have it", no worries mate, fkn laughin'! 🙂👍
@@anthonyhovens7488 The best headphones and the best amplifier I own are from the '80s and '90s, really good stuff during those years in the noisemaker world.
This is the first electric kit I ever played, sometime in the late 90s when I was a kid. Local science centre had this in to play amongst other "future" products. The kit was still there about 15 years later, but pads had become very unresponsive.
As a drummer, I can confirm this. 😂 Nah, but seriously though, I taught myself guitar, bass and piano in my late teens, after having played the drums since 10, picked them all up up rather fast. Once you're taught rythm as a young kid, it translates easily to other rythmic instruments. But those are essentially percussive instruments too, in the way that they are played (pizzicato, staccato, plucked etc.). Challenge starts with blown or bowed instruments, that's a completely different sort of musicality that does not come easy to a lot of drummers. Only slight parallel is the brushed, they rely much more on pressure/friction, like cello for example...
@@jacobskovsbllknudsen5908it’s interesting you say that, as my first instrument was wind but that still involved a lot of the same rhythmic education - since it was monophonic the player had to care much more about rhythmic minutiae than about chord function etc. Obviously the physicality is quite different, getting used to guitar and keys was definitely like a totally new experience to me, but the mental concept of rhythmic function and which notes you can safely push time around without being unrecognisable and which ones you had to leave intact were all there.
Death Grips has multiple albums where the drummer Zach Hill is playing everything through electronic drums acting as a sample trigger. No Love Deep Web and the first half of The Powers That B are done that way, the latter is all Bjork vocals too.
If Dankpods ever had a theme song I feel like it would be entirely composed with the Robo & Remix settings on those pads, it has that chaotic feel that this channel provides
James is a wizard that deserves nothing but the utmost respect. Edit: Good thing James is on the good side. His skills getting utilized for evil could have dire consequences.
LOVE those 90s roland sounds. One of my favorite things about the early days of redbook audio in video games is just how often you can spot the roland sounds. They're everywhere and they're great!
@@Zawmbbeh it's more than the 909 aha. Look up any old game from about 1991 to 2010, maybe even later than that, and you'll find plenty of Roland sounds in there aha
@@Zawmbbeh actually... Go back to 1988 in fact! The Ultimate Sound Tracker for Amiga came with some samples recorded from the Roland D-50. It's pretty neat honestly. Those samples started getting used in tracker modules throughout the 90s all the time x3c
@@dabois8280Yeah, get some pro cymbals and convert the controller outputs to midi or find an application that specifically makes GH or RB drum kit a midi kit
This kit came in like a rescued injured animal, and with lots of care, became something that has its own grace albeit scruffy looking. This is next level for me as someone who has yet to commit to starting drumming. Looks extremely doable for a bargain.
Roland's sound modules have always been great and this is proof of it. I believe you could even feed this pre-programmed midi in and just record the output into your music production software
@@Nooely Yeah, it's why most people (myself included) will just plug it into a laptop and use MIDI for a VST like EZDrummer, because it's the best sound you're really gonna get for an electric kit.
Roland was known to make stuff that did a lot.. the roland can be repaired and maintained. I dont know what a complete kit in working order would cost today but its much more than 50$
@@AnUncleanHippy 100%. I have a TD-17KVX brain powering most of my kit (using a TMC-6 for extra pads) but only ever run it through Superior Drummer 3. The stock sounds just don't come anywhere close
That’s the beauty of an electronic drum kit. Set up once and you have access to every kind of percussion instrument and sound effect without disturbing the neighbors
Hearing those samples sent me into a nostalgia vortex to guitar center in 1997 when we would fart around on the display model of this thing until we got booted by the drum dept. folks... good times.
Lol the "brain box" is basically a MIDI sound module and the hats and drum and pedal substitute are glorified buttons you press by hammering a stick or a foot on. Good to see what all those "toy digital drum kits" were supposed to be and sound like. It looks scuffed but it's still good
Considering their precision, I don't think calling them buttons is fair! I'm sure some sort of pressure-based trickery is involved. Not to mention tuning it all for an experienced drummer to just click right in! Edit: ah on second thought, maybe I'm just easily fooled. It sounds shockingly good, though!
@@BeerDone yeah they are piezo electric switches, they are crude pressure sensors sending a bigger or smaller voltage spike depending on how hard you hit. This way the "brain box" can play the midi sound at the right volume. Depending on how posh is the digital drum kit you have, you might have multiple switches for different areas of the drum/hats/whatever so it plays a different sound depending on where you hit. But for each sensor you will have an audio jack that connects to the "brain box" and I see only one per "plate" there so it's a single switch per "plate" in this case. The devil is in the details as with most things. But its working principles are very simple.
@@marcogenovesi8570I have this exact kit. The drum pads have multiple pressure sensitive sensors in them. You can hit the main part of the pad for the main sound, at varying volumes. And you can hit the rim for a different sound, again at varying volumes. That way you can do rim shots, cymbal bells, etc. The sounds change slightly, too, at the different volume levels, because drums don't just get louder when you hit them harder, they also start to have different timbres. Oh, and you can grab the rim of the "cymbals" to choke off the sound, too.
@@BeerDone it’s still not exactly a switch, more like a contact mic. There’ll be a volume threshold before it’s triggered, and potentially different samples for different velocities as well rather than just adjusting the output volume. The box is basically going to be doing some DSP to turn those analogue audio spikes into MIDI triggers with the appropriate velocity etc settings. Indeed MIDI-out of this box could plug into a modern DAW and trigger a different sample for every single velocity level rather than just having a few groups. Of course very basic signal analysis implementation could generate pure on/off and nothing else - just like an actual switch. But electrically the piezo pickup is a bit more than just a switch.
The chord hits on “Dance” are hilarious. I love “90s” too. I know you prefer acoustic drums for the expressivity but I love seeing your take on these kind of kits too
This was the kit I learned to play drums on as a kid! My dad still has it in his basement and it is still going strong! Those goofy noises bring back so many memories
That little part near the power plug is a diode. It does the electronic equivalent of your buddy throwing his body on a live grenade to protect you. It shorts the power supply incase of reverse polarity plugged into it. It destroys the diode and potentially the power supply, but saves the rest of the device.
What an insane bargain. Love me som 90s Roland gear, I have a couple of their synth rack modules from the same era and they still have some lovely sounds. Awesome thing about this too is that it has MIDI in/out, so you can totally just get a USB MIDI cable and play modern electronic drum kits e.g the kits in GarageBand/Logic Pro.
1:27 is the EXACT kit I got for Christmas last year as my first one. Cost them about £500 but for that price I could of gotten an Alesis Nitro Mesh. But whenever I say that, apparently I come off as ungrateful. But I’m honestly thankful in a way that I’ve got ancient tech, so then any solutions I find on how to fix stuff that’s wrong with it I can use down the line when I get better ones.
That thing absolutely slaps, bro. When you said Super Nintendo, I was thinking all of the sounds were going to be super outdated and low quality. I could not have been more wrong.
I love the MIDI vibe of these old Roland TD's. It's basically the same samples yhat were used in the GS soundset and GS midi synths like the SC-55 and SC-88. And ohhh man i love those synths, i still have the emulator for them on my PC.
I don't know, these samples sound a bit more out there than the ones on the Sound Canvas modules. I can hear some of the cymbals are the same, maybe the TR-808 samples, but everything else seem punchier on the drum module
Aw hell yeah that baby's got MIDI in and out, so there's no reason you can't hook it up to a computer and play on whatever software kit you can get your hands on.
What's that? the ability to open up and repair one or two small parts turned this thing into a perfectly working piece of kit and saved it from becoming landfill? What a concept!
I had one of these as a kid! I didn't realize how nostalgic I'd be for the drum brain UI. It would've been more fun if I had music to practice with. Also, "Battery low? BATTEREEE?" 🤣
7:25 Ahhhh those drum samples do certainly take me back to a time. Reminds me of my mom’s old Casio keyboard that I started piano lessons on in the 90s.
Superb bargain. Hell, get a module that let's it interact with a vijagame-console, some Y splitters and get the homie some rockband CDs and the game can act as a mini at home teacher. He won't even need to fiddle with cables and module swaps. Not only will he work out, but the game will get him hyped to actually learn the drums proper. Every time I did talks at schools, the kids would almost always say that rockband/guitar hero is what got them into wanting to play an instrument. Fair play and I love those games for it, the more people playing with their dingus the better it is.. I don't need to preach about how powerful and freeing music is, we're all here after all.
Everything you play on it, because you’re so talented and because it’s so late 80s/early 90s, sounds exactly like every drum sample from every Yamaha keyboard I ever owned from the early 90s.
I grew up learning drums on these (actually a TD-6) that my dad let me use. Those sounds at 4:40 made me smile ear-to-ear because they’re so nostalgic to me!
my dad had this model, his big reason for it was not having to tune them before a gig. he also had a friend make a rolling cart so he didnt had to break it down he just lifted it into the cart and roll in a trailer.
I love this channel because it reminds me of going to pawn shops, flea markets, swap meets, etc. with my dad as a kid. Always looking to spot some type of drum stuff on the cheap. You show mostly the stuff we'd never drag home. I learned to play on that exact Pearl pedal, it was with my 5th bday present.
I literally got my start on drums because someone gave me this kit! I absolutely loved playing this kit, and it made me fall in love with the drums which is why I upgraded to the Roland td-17. By no means am I professional drummer or anything but through the several years I have been playing it has given me a much deeper appreciation for music. Also he is 💯 right on drumming being a workout.
Back in 1994 I had bought the Roland TD7KE kit (E for extended) brand new for a whopping $3000. To think that some 30 years later it would be found for $50 is not surprising to me because that's what it was really worth back then too...
Thanks for being one of my inspirations to get into drumming, genuinely one of my favorite hobbies. Of course I can’t play any of the songs I want but I’m slowly getting there!
No lie, as a Keyboardist and electronic music composer i buy electric drum brains all the time on sale because they often have better sounds than any of the drums in expensive libraries I can find. TD7 is shockingly great.
And this is why electronic drum kits can be fun. Being able to change drum P A T C H E S ! (absolutely love the "Remix" kit, with the the "Dance" kit being a close second)
@@AmstradExinMacOS is equipped with far better MIDI support than Windows or Linux. There’s literally a settings window called “MIDI Studio” with native IAC network, USB, loop back, and Bluetooth MIDI support with a node-based patching interface. There’s a reason Macs have been the industry standard for media professionals for decades. I personally think the tribalism is silly, and I use all of the aforementioned OS’s daily, but if your workload is audio production, I’d go with the Mac every time.
I don't know why I was so surprised by the quality of sounds in a '90s Roland kit. Of COURSE they fuck. I would totally trigger that snare sample as part of a mix. Cool shit!
I used to have a set of TAMA Techstars from back in the 80s. I actually miss them. The "Brain" (sound module) was basically an analog synthesizer head with knobs to adjust every aspect from attack, fuzz/hiss, and modulation, to decay and tone... and, that was it, that's how you made the sounds you "wanted". It was a big metal box the size of a briefcase that weighed 10 pounds. The sensors in the big hexagonal pads were so sensitive that you could yell at the heads and they would trigger the sounds. I wish I still had them.
old school roland stuff is great, im pretty sure the pads are just like piezos so its no surprise the janky solution with converting a 3.5mm cable works, you love to see it honestly
Honestly, add the sound samples from the Roland to the drum museum. The best part about electronic kit samples is that you can use it on almost any electronic kit. The experience can last for even longer.
I've always found it funny that people call 3.5mm audio cables "AUX cables", which I assume originates from the brief period where after-market car stereos had an "AUX" input for people to plug in their MP3 players. Yet another anachronistic word spawned from our rapidly advancing technology.
It originated earlier than that, many amplifiers wrote AUX for the line-in select (ie not part of the tape loop, marked tape deck, or phono input from the turntable). Slightly later amplifiers often had multiple line-ins but they’d be labelled CD, tape, aux rather than line 1 line 2 line 3. Of course nothing was stopping you from plugging the CD player into aux rather than CD, but yeah. I believe those integrated “music centre” systems also used the “aux(iliary)” terminology, which was certainly helpful for everyone who stuck a Discman on top once the 90s came round rather than buying a whole new hifi. But cars definitely helped (re)popularise it in the 00s and 10s, especially as a social thing (“pass me the aux cord!”) rather than just something one person would occasionally interact with while setting up their home system.
The KD-7 that came with it is worth about twice what you paid for the whole thing! Thomas Lang used to use a load of these to fit more foot pedals into his vDrums seteup.
You know, I've heard lots of cheap old electric instruments with those default sound packs... I don't think I've EVER heard them used to such great effect as what Wade showed off here. Color me impressed, mate.
that bass drum pedal looks exactly like the one i use because the kit i use used to be my dads kit from the 80s or 90s and its this black pearl kit with an original drum rack designed by jeff porcaro. what an era of drumming. even just seeing a pedal like that makes me real happy cause modern pedals look nothing like those 80s and 90s pedals, so raw lookin
That's just good clean(?) fun in a box! Love the sounds, they're whacky but good whacky, the glass break crash, priceless!. I bet your mate is going to have a lot of fun with it. Reminds me I should get my el cheapo e-kit back up working. Used to have it playing through Superior Drummer at my old place, and that might just be the ticket to fight my depression.
The first E-kit I ever played on was this guy's little brother, the TD-5. My boss had one, but he was a guitarist and begged me to come over and lay down some tracks on his stuff he was recording. I was really surprised at how good they sounded. Well, except for the cymbal sounds. But it impressed me enough that I got me the first gen Yamaha DTXtreme. 1700 sounds, fantastic looking drum pads (cymbals looked like crap) and 16 pad inputs. Only problem was those 1700 sounds sounded more like maybe 100. You couldn't tell the difference between many of the snares and toms. Nowadays I've got a TD-30 pimped out. The thing will have to completely die before I get another E-kit.
The "Dance" kit is so cool. and apparently everyone else agrees; you can see how many people rewound to the start of that showcase. (tbf that's also the part with that great built in track)
Cool kit! I love your videos! I have been subscribed since the early days of the channel. I am an OG, and I love your videos. Big fan, keep it up, you are my favourite channel.
well shit, now i want an ol' battle tested electronic drum kit with genuine tr-808 sounds which i will promptly forget about and stuff into "the corner no one dares to look at"
I'm an audio engineer and not a drummer, so my experience with electric kits has been pretty bad since they are kind of a pain to mix in a live setting, but that honestly looks like a ton of fun and I can definitely see that being a fun tool to use in a home studio. On a side note, I know other people have done it, but I would love to see a video about how you record your drums as far as mics, mic placement, any EQ or compression or whatnot you use afterwards. I've been really curious about how you tackle that with your collection. Thanks for all the great vids!
Drumming is a serious workout. I played a gig on Saturday, and according to my Apple Watch- burned just over 2,000kcal. Means the post show kebab doesn’t count
if the band has a fat drummer you are going to Die in the pit
Fair play
@@m.f.3347 Gene Hoglan, case and point lol
I imagine your watch also told you you walked a few tens of thousand of steps
Boy math :)
Repairing electronics gets a lot less intimidating once you realize just how often you can simply spot the component with a big shitstain around it and replace it without having to understand how the component or circuit works.
LOL
You're not wrong.
Yep, I scored a lot of car stereos and practice amps in the late 80s/early 90s by unsoldering the burnt out looking bit and taking it into Tandy or Dick Smiths, getting a replacement for 20 cents, and soldering it in, usually, just by melting the old solder. "If you can fix it, you can have it", no worries mate, fkn laughin'! 🙂👍
Its even easier with older electronics tbh xD
Or, that have had an aneurism!
I'm looking at you, electrolytic capacitors who have blown their tops... 😊
It sounds shockingly good for it's age! Like, you could totally use this for professional recording if it wasn't just drum solos
Probably why it's selling for 120-200 USD on places like Reverb.
@@justjoeblow420 people selling them for like 900-1500$ in my country lol
Oh fuck yeah, high end audio stuff from the 90s is shockingly good. Look up the OG monkey island theme played using a roland mt-32 sound card thing...
@@anthonyhovens7488 The best headphones and the best amplifier I own are from the '80s and '90s, really good stuff during those years in the noisemaker world.
@@lvl90dru1dwhy? Taxes?
his ability to flawlessly play these manky ass pads to produce suitable drum fills for the different settings has to be a superpower
We need a Dank Pods drum solo album,, ey
that "dance" track was some bangin dnb hes a wizard
Jazz trained drummers can play anything. really shows what 4 years of dedicated university study does
Lol😅
@@LordofDiamondsMetal as far as i can tell being a jazz musician in general is a superpower
This is the first electric kit I ever played, sometime in the late 90s when I was a kid. Local science centre had this in to play amongst other "future" products. The kit was still there about 15 years later, but pads had become very unresponsive.
Well, time to Dave Grohl the suckers
my dad had this kit. I used to play sheep's on them. really loved it. he got rid of it a few years ago tho..
I'm convinced drummers could play any type of music if you present the instrumentation in a drumkit.
As a drummer, I can confirm this. 😂
Nah, but seriously though, I taught myself guitar, bass and piano in my late teens, after having played the drums since 10, picked them all up up rather fast. Once you're taught rythm as a young kid, it translates easily to other rythmic instruments. But those are essentially percussive instruments too, in the way that they are played (pizzicato, staccato, plucked etc.). Challenge starts with blown or bowed instruments, that's a completely different sort of musicality that does not come easy to a lot of drummers. Only slight parallel is the brushed, they rely much more on pressure/friction, like cello for example...
@@jacobskovsbllknudsen5908it’s interesting you say that, as my first instrument was wind but that still involved a lot of the same rhythmic education - since it was monophonic the player had to care much more about rhythmic minutiae than about chord function etc.
Obviously the physicality is quite different, getting used to guitar and keys was definitely like a totally new experience to me, but the mental concept of rhythmic function and which notes you can safely push time around without being unrecognisable and which ones you had to leave intact were all there.
@@kaitlyn__Lmusic is the love language of human kind
Death Grips has multiple albums where the drummer Zach Hill is playing everything through electronic drums acting as a sample trigger. No Love Deep Web and the first half of The Powers That B are done that way, the latter is all Bjork vocals too.
If Dankpods ever had a theme song I feel like it would be entirely composed with the Robo & Remix settings on those pads, it has that chaotic feel that this channel provides
That Robo setting makes my ears sparkle and I want more
Autechre music:
You won’t believe who hosts dankpods
@@LfrancisDrums frank the snake?
Oh and Scarlet Fire
Honestly, James is just the best. I’m glad you found a friend like him, and I wish James all the best in life. He deserves it.
Not the James in question but I'll accept it for the both of us
James is a wizard that deserves nothing but the utmost respect.
Edit: Good thing James is on the good side. His skills getting utilized for evil could have dire consequences.
LOVE those 90s roland sounds. One of my favorite things about the early days of redbook audio in video games is just how often you can spot the roland sounds. They're everywhere and they're great!
Agreed. I own a couple Roland synths and one of them has the infamous Pokémon horns in it. Haven't used them in my music, but they're there x3c
as soon as you know what a 909 kick or hi hat sounds like, you see them EVERYWHERE
@@Zawmbbeh it's more than the 909 aha. Look up any old game from about 1991 to 2010, maybe even later than that, and you'll find plenty of Roland sounds in there aha
@@autumnbrushtail hehe
@@Zawmbbeh actually... Go back to 1988 in fact! The Ultimate Sound Tracker for Amiga came with some samples recorded from the Roland D-50. It's pretty neat honestly. Those samples started getting used in tracker modules throughout the 90s all the time x3c
Plus, you can run it through pedals. YOU CAN RUN IT THROUGH PEDALS.
My first electronic kit was actually the pads from a rockband set. Surprisingly cromulent drum kit when ran through a PC
Holy shit you can convert that into an actual electronic drum set? That's awesome
@@dabois8280Yeah, get some pro cymbals and convert the controller outputs to midi or find an application that specifically makes GH or RB drum kit a midi kit
@@dabois8280the Rock Band keyboard was a surprisingly decent MIDI controller too
This embiggens my heart and love of drums.
What software recognizes that Rock Band kit as a controller I want to tryyyy
This kit came in like a rescued injured animal, and with lots of care, became something that has its own grace albeit scruffy looking.
This is next level for me as someone who has yet to commit to starting drumming. Looks extremely doable for a bargain.
Roland's sound modules have always been great and this is proof of it. I believe you could even feed this pre-programmed midi in and just record the output into your music production software
@@Nooely Yeah, it's why most people (myself included) will just plug it into a laptop and use MIDI for a VST like EZDrummer, because it's the best sound you're really gonna get for an electric kit.
Roland was known to make stuff that did a lot.. the roland can be repaired and maintained. I dont know what a complete kit in working order would cost today but its much more than 50$
@@AnUncleanHippy 100%. I have a TD-17KVX brain powering most of my kit (using a TMC-6 for extra pads) but only ever run it through Superior Drummer 3. The stock sounds just don't come anywhere close
8:31 unauthorized breaking and entering-type beat
😂
i had an old simmons kit from 2009. Had all the classic drum machine sounds. Big kit too, 4 toms, 4 crashes.
That’s the beauty of an electronic drum kit. Set up once and you have access to every kind of percussion instrument and sound effect without disturbing the neighbors
Hearing those samples sent me into a nostalgia vortex to guitar center in 1997 when we would fart around on the display model of this thing until we got booted by the drum dept. folks... good times.
Lol the "brain box" is basically a MIDI sound module and the hats and drum and pedal substitute are glorified buttons you press by hammering a stick or a foot on. Good to see what all those "toy digital drum kits" were supposed to be and sound like. It looks scuffed but it's still good
Considering their precision, I don't think calling them buttons is fair! I'm sure some sort of pressure-based trickery is involved. Not to mention tuning it all for an experienced drummer to just click right in!
Edit: ah on second thought, maybe I'm just easily fooled. It sounds shockingly good, though!
@@BeerDone yeah they are piezo electric switches, they are crude pressure sensors sending a bigger or smaller voltage spike depending on how hard you hit. This way the "brain box" can play the midi sound at the right volume.
Depending on how posh is the digital drum kit you have, you might have multiple switches for different areas of the drum/hats/whatever so it plays a different sound depending on where you hit. But for each sensor you will have an audio jack that connects to the "brain box" and I see only one per "plate" there so it's a single switch per "plate" in this case.
The devil is in the details as with most things. But its working principles are very simple.
@@marcogenovesi8570I have this exact kit. The drum pads have multiple pressure sensitive sensors in them. You can hit the main part of the pad for the main sound, at varying volumes. And you can hit the rim for a different sound, again at varying volumes. That way you can do rim shots, cymbal bells, etc.
The sounds change slightly, too, at the different volume levels, because drums don't just get louder when you hit them harder, they also start to have different timbres.
Oh, and you can grab the rim of the "cymbals" to choke off the sound, too.
not like modern kits arent that different technically lol
@@BeerDone it’s still not exactly a switch, more like a contact mic. There’ll be a volume threshold before it’s triggered, and potentially different samples for different velocities as well rather than just adjusting the output volume.
The box is basically going to be doing some DSP to turn those analogue audio spikes into MIDI triggers with the appropriate velocity etc settings. Indeed MIDI-out of this box could plug into a modern DAW and trigger a different sample for every single velocity level rather than just having a few groups.
Of course very basic signal analysis implementation could generate pure on/off and nothing else - just like an actual switch. But electrically the piezo pickup is a bit more than just a switch.
The chord hits on “Dance” are hilarious. I love “90s” too. I know you prefer acoustic drums for the expressivity but I love seeing your take on these kind of kits too
Honnestly have never been into drums, but these videos are amazing to watch. Also can't wait to see what happens with the headphone giveaway!
Can you please link me the headphones giveaway video? I saw the video earlier but now I can’t see it.
Every day Wade uploads is a good day for me.
Stop calling Mr. Dank that nickname
wade @@thetubeboi6991
ICE CUBE: you know i gotta say , today was a good day
same
This was the kit I learned to play drums on as a kid! My dad still has it in his basement and it is still going strong! Those goofy noises bring back so many memories
You should totally get an old copy of Guitar Hero or Rockband and review their drums lol
I normally send it on Clone Hero since it has 3 cymbal 4 pads drums support now.
@@AnUncleanHippy I actually love to play on YARG as well as it has vocal support and both 4 and 5 lane drums!
That little part near the power plug is a diode. It does the electronic equivalent of your buddy throwing his body on a live grenade to protect you. It shorts the power supply incase of reverse polarity plugged into it. It destroys the diode and potentially the power supply, but saves the rest of the device.
James is a god send. wish we could have seen him fix it. i love his channel thank you for recommending it.
That Anderson .Paak mat is the most amazing thing I've seen today~
Ah yes, my favorite ‘Straya word, Fiddybuckdrembkit
The Dance one sounded like Breakcore and I loved every second of that vibe
I don't give a toss about drums but anything Wade is enthusiastic about I can get enthusiastic about.
What an insane bargain. Love me som 90s Roland gear, I have a couple of their synth rack modules from the same era and they still have some lovely sounds.
Awesome thing about this too is that it has MIDI in/out, so you can totally just get a USB MIDI cable and play modern electronic drum kits e.g the kits in GarageBand/Logic Pro.
1:27 is the EXACT kit I got for Christmas last year as my first one. Cost them about £500 but for that price I could of gotten an Alesis Nitro Mesh. But whenever I say that, apparently I come off as ungrateful.
But I’m honestly thankful in a way that I’ve got ancient tech, so then any solutions I find on how to fix stuff that’s wrong with it I can use down the line when I get better ones.
I had this exact kit when I was a 11 (38 now) I would have still kept it if the module didn't die. What an awesome kit!
One thing I learned from Wade: If you're low on money but want some tech thing? Don't buy a new crappy one, but an old good one.
Its fun to find this mans random channels theyre all hilarious
Wow after a small repair, great sound for such a good price!
That thing absolutely slaps, bro. When you said Super Nintendo, I was thinking all of the sounds were going to be super outdated and low quality. I could not have been more wrong.
I love the MIDI vibe of these old Roland TD's. It's basically the same samples yhat were used in the GS soundset and GS midi synths like the SC-55 and SC-88. And ohhh man i love those synths, i still have the emulator for them on my PC.
I don't know, these samples sound a bit more out there than the ones on the Sound Canvas modules. I can hear some of the cymbals are the same, maybe the TR-808 samples, but everything else seem punchier on the drum module
Ok those sounds are so fucking good i am vibing with this old drum kit
Aw hell yeah that baby's got MIDI in and out, so there's no reason you can't hook it up to a computer and play on whatever software kit you can get your hands on.
Dude your sounds are *sublime.* You're an incredible drummer with an awesome sense of style
that 808 beat at the end was FIRE
I'm so glad for James existence, he's always willing to help others, what a hero
You know what might be a fun video, is teaching James the basics of playing drums.
What's that? the ability to open up and repair one or two small parts turned this thing into a perfectly working piece of kit and saved it from becoming landfill? What a concept!
The phrase "James tickling" will forevermore live in my heart and soul
I’d love a video with you just playing some awesome beats on a kit like this, no backing track needed, just pure drums!
I had one of these as a kid! I didn't realize how nostalgic I'd be for the drum brain UI. It would've been more fun if I had music to practice with. Also, "Battery low? BATTEREEE?" 🤣
7:25 Ahhhh those drum samples do certainly take me back to a time. Reminds me of my mom’s old Casio keyboard that I started piano lessons on in the 90s.
I swear the "rave" sample is exactly the tune they used in every 90's exercise VHS
Nice job getting it back to life! Seriously a "zombie" e-kit back from the dead. I'd play the clappers outta that kit.
Superb bargain.
Hell, get a module that let's it interact with a vijagame-console, some Y splitters and get the homie some rockband CDs and the game can act as a mini at home teacher. He won't even need to fiddle with cables and module swaps.
Not only will he work out, but the game will get him hyped to actually learn the drums proper.
Every time I did talks at schools, the kids would almost always say that rockband/guitar hero is what got them into wanting to play an instrument.
Fair play and I love those games for it, the more people playing with their dingus the better it is.. I don't need to preach about how powerful and freeing music is, we're all here after all.
That's so cool. And good use of old drum kit parts to make a "rack".
I genuinely like that kit - it's actually a really nice sound
Aww the electric kit I started on! Memories!!! Lol
I'm gonna need an extended version of that Robo track. Fits right into an Earthbound battle.
Everything you play on it, because you’re so talented and because it’s so late 80s/early 90s, sounds exactly like every drum sample from every Yamaha keyboard I ever owned from the early 90s.
All the cables and the brain,
but no frame.
god damn the rhymes
I grew up learning drums on these (actually a TD-6) that my dad let me use. Those sounds at 4:40 made me smile ear-to-ear because they’re so nostalgic to me!
my dad had this model, his big reason for it was not having to tune them before a gig. he also had a friend make a rolling cart so he didnt had to break it down he just lifted it into the cart and roll in a trailer.
I'm almost convinced if I had the space I'd do a little doodling too!!
That honestly sounds fantastic.
I love this channel because it reminds me of going to pawn shops, flea markets, swap meets, etc. with my dad as a kid. Always looking to spot some type of drum stuff on the cheap.
You show mostly the stuff we'd never drag home.
I learned to play on that exact Pearl pedal, it was with my 5th bday present.
I literally got my start on drums because someone gave me this kit! I absolutely loved playing this kit, and it made me fall in love with the drums which is why I upgraded to the Roland td-17. By no means am I professional drummer or anything but through the several years I have been playing it has given me a much deeper appreciation for music. Also he is 💯 right on drumming being a workout.
I've always loved old electric drum kits, and this video did not disappoint at all
Back in 1994 I had bought the Roland TD7KE kit (E for extended) brand new for a whopping $3000. To think that some 30 years later it would be found for $50 is not surprising to me because that's what it was really worth back then too...
Thanks for being one of my inspirations to get into drumming, genuinely one of my favorite hobbies. Of course I can’t play any of the songs I want but I’m slowly getting there!
That looks like fun, and it only needed a minor Jamesing!
Those are amazing 90's sounds.
I have this exact kit. Plus more . Amazing review 👏
No lie, as a Keyboardist and electronic music composer i buy electric drum brains all the time on sale because they often have better sounds than any of the drums in expensive libraries I can find. TD7 is shockingly great.
everything Eric Persing designed was a synonym of good sounding instruments.
That Rave was SPOT.ON,
I love the sounds of 80s/90s electronic drum kits and drum machines. Roland, Yamaha, Alesis - they perfected the sound back then.
BTW, Recap and change the battery inside of that thing before it self-destructs.
There are some surprisingly usable sounds in there.
And this is why electronic drum kits can be fun.
Being able to change drum P A T C H E S ! (absolutely love the "Remix" kit, with the the "Dance" kit being a close second)
Sounds better than most modern drum kits.
AND ITS GOT MIDI! ....not that this hipster Mac loving dude knows what that is.
@@AmstradExinMacOS is equipped with far better MIDI support than Windows or Linux. There’s literally a settings window called “MIDI Studio” with native IAC network, USB, loop back, and Bluetooth MIDI support with a node-based patching interface. There’s a reason Macs have been the industry standard for media professionals for decades. I personally think the tribalism is silly, and I use all of the aforementioned OS’s daily, but if your workload is audio production, I’d go with the Mac every time.
@@AmstradExinI’m sure he does you goose....
I don't know why I was so surprised by the quality of sounds in a '90s Roland kit. Of COURSE they fuck. I would totally trigger that snare sample as part of a mix. Cool shit!
I used to have a set of TAMA Techstars from back in the 80s. I actually miss them. The "Brain" (sound module) was basically an analog synthesizer head with knobs to adjust every aspect from attack, fuzz/hiss, and modulation, to decay and tone... and, that was it, that's how you made the sounds you "wanted". It was a big metal box the size of a briefcase that weighed 10 pounds. The sensors in the big hexagonal pads were so sensitive that you could yell at the heads and they would trigger the sounds.
I wish I still had them.
old school roland stuff is great, im pretty sure the pads are just like piezos so its no surprise the janky solution with converting a 3.5mm cable works, you love to see it honestly
Honestly, add the sound samples from the Roland to the drum museum. The best part about electronic kit samples is that you can use it on almost any electronic kit. The experience can last for even longer.
Damn you lucked out! Must have been stored away nicely in the ocean
I've always found it funny that people call 3.5mm audio cables "AUX cables", which I assume originates from the brief period where after-market car stereos had an "AUX" input for people to plug in their MP3 players. Yet another anachronistic word spawned from our rapidly advancing technology.
It originated earlier than that, many amplifiers wrote AUX for the line-in select (ie not part of the tape loop, marked tape deck, or phono input from the turntable).
Slightly later amplifiers often had multiple line-ins but they’d be labelled CD, tape, aux rather than line 1 line 2 line 3. Of course nothing was stopping you from plugging the CD player into aux rather than CD, but yeah.
I believe those integrated “music centre” systems also used the “aux(iliary)” terminology, which was certainly helpful for everyone who stuck a Discman on top once the 90s came round rather than buying a whole new hifi.
But cars definitely helped (re)popularise it in the 00s and 10s, especially as a social thing (“pass me the aux cord!”) rather than just something one person would occasionally interact with while setting up their home system.
That play through of all the different genres really reminded me of a game of Lumines!
I'd love to use that to play clone hero/YARG/Rock Band. I love your content so much!
I can actually feel the happiness in your voice that this works lol!!!!
The KD-7 that came with it is worth about twice what you paid for the whole thing! Thomas Lang used to use a load of these to fit more foot pedals into his vDrums seteup.
You know, I've heard lots of cheap old electric instruments with those default sound packs... I don't think I've EVER heard them used to such great effect as what Wade showed off here. Color me impressed, mate.
that bass drum pedal looks exactly like the one i use because the kit i use used to be my dads kit from the 80s or 90s and its this black pearl kit with an original drum rack designed by jeff porcaro. what an era of drumming. even just seeing a pedal like that makes me real happy cause modern pedals look nothing like those 80s and 90s pedals, so raw lookin
That's just good clean(?) fun in a box!
Love the sounds, they're whacky but good whacky, the glass break crash, priceless!.
I bet your mate is going to have a lot of fun with it.
Reminds me I should get my el cheapo e-kit back up working.
Used to have it playing through Superior Drummer at my old place, and that might just be the ticket to fight my depression.
Everyone needs a James in their life. Amazing how good these sound for their age and condition.
The first E-kit I ever played on was this guy's little brother, the TD-5. My boss had one, but he was a guitarist and begged me to come over and lay down some tracks on his stuff he was recording. I was really surprised at how good they sounded. Well, except for the cymbal sounds. But it impressed me enough that I got me the first gen Yamaha DTXtreme. 1700 sounds, fantastic looking drum pads (cymbals looked like crap) and 16 pad inputs. Only problem was those 1700 sounds sounded more like maybe 100. You couldn't tell the difference between many of the snares and toms. Nowadays I've got a TD-30 pimped out. The thing will have to completely die before I get another E-kit.
My dad has a 90’s Roland kit similar to this one, still plays great
It's almost as if the tech Roland puts out has been tough.
The "Dance" kit is so cool. and apparently everyone else agrees; you can see how many people rewound to the start of that showcase. (tbf that's also the part with that great built in track)
that box has seen better days. Better days 30 years ago
Cool kit! I love your videos! I have been subscribed since the early days of the channel. I am an OG, and I love your videos. Big fan, keep it up, you are my favourite channel.
we all need a local James in our lives
well shit, now i want an ol' battle tested electronic drum kit with genuine tr-808 sounds which i will promptly forget about and stuff into "the corner no one dares to look at"
If you can find a good deal on a used TD-9, go for it. Even better if you can find a good condition TD-20 kit.
I'm an audio engineer and not a drummer, so my experience with electric kits has been pretty bad since they are kind of a pain to mix in a live setting, but that honestly looks like a ton of fun and I can definitely see that being a fun tool to use in a home studio.
On a side note, I know other people have done it, but I would love to see a video about how you record your drums as far as mics, mic placement, any EQ or compression or whatnot you use afterwards. I've been really curious about how you tackle that with your collection.
Thanks for all the great vids!
How are electric kits harder to mix than acoustic ones?
Dank pods, garbage time, and now drum thing, in about a week-ish! You've been busy sir, and im here for all of it!
That Hi-Hat pedal is easily $50 by itself. A lot of people think the FD-7 is better than the FD-8 and FD-9. Great find!
It’s been travelling for thirty years to get to you! Epic!