New drum gear at NAMM 2010 (VIDEOS!)

[Redeye]

Cool new stuff at NAMM 2010. Gearguruz.com has some good videos:

http://www.guruz.me/namm

Zildjian stuff (from harmony central):

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTd9vvV0hZ0"]YouTube- Winter NAMM 2010 Zildjian[/ame]

This looks cool - Pearl e E Pro electronic kit:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5VDmzx8cUQ"]YouTube- Pearl E Pro NAMM 2010[/ame]

[xsabers]

Pearl kit is awesome, but too pricey. Why do you need to buy these (as a Pearl rep described) old Export quality shells when many (most) drummers already have a kit? The triggers could easily be adapted to fit any standard drum (you could by a cheapo off of CL). I think this will be part of the next phase. Now the cable connection is fixed in the shell. Everything else comes off and can be replaced with standard heads.

[Redeye]

I like where Pearl is going with putting all the technology in the head. You can't blame them for wanting to dress it up with a nice looking shell. Priced where it will be (probably $2K) it will be a luxury item for studio guys. In a year or so, they will probably market the head/brain package for under a grand. I'm glad someone is pushing Roland a bit in this market. The V-Drums are super fun but way too expensive for most players. 10 years from now we'll probably have WiFi connected overlays to serve as triggers. I wouldn't mind consistent, sampled drum sounds, but I would have a hard time getting rid of my cymbals. That is way too hard to replicate.

[Russ]

that pearl kit is a waste of money. ddrum has been integrating triggers into real shells for about a year or two now, and for around 800 to boot! it looks nice but come on, don't throw your money away on a name

[topdog63]

I played that kit while I was there. It sounds and feels good but I prefer the rubber cymbal pads if I'm gonna play an e-kit. The brass ones were regular cymbals with a piece of plastic on them and it was just noisy and your heard a really loud "click" when playing them. They had a cool feature though (may have just been for the show) they had a sonic shaker mounted to the throne so when you hit the kick or wone of the two lower toms you could feel it in the seat. Pretty cool kits though and sound samples that can compete with the rolands

[topdog63]

This was the coolest drumset I saw there. It's a new tuning design that works by kind of screwing the rim on (almost like a pill bottle lid) so theres no need to struggle with tuning. You can change the head in less than a minute and when the new one is on there you just adjust it to the tone you want and play away. They are called Rotek Drums

[itchie]

yeah thats crazy stuff

[xsabers]

Shane,

Where did you get that price? I was under the impression that they were much higher than that.

And Russ, aren't the ddrum triggers used on regular heads? These are at least quiet like the V-drums.

[xsabers]

Shane,

Where did you get that price? I was under the impression that they were much higher than that.

And Russ, aren't the ddrum triggers used on regular heads? These are at least quiet like the V-drums.

[drumhedd]

The Pearl e-pro kit is a mere $3200

ummmm..no

[Redeye]

it looks nice but come on, don't throw your money away on a name

I wasn't planning on getting any of these, just looking, but agreed on the ddrum stuff.

Shane,

Where did you get that price? I was under the impression that they were much higher than that.

That was a guess.

[mkennedy]

Shane,

Where did you get that price? I was under the impression that they were much higher than that.

And Russ, aren't the ddrum triggers used on regular heads? These are at least quiet like the V-drums.

Ddrum triggers can be used on either regular heads or mesh heads. So they can be as quiet as V-drums.