Re: New to electric! :o
I was new to e-drums about 4-5 months ago. Fortunately, I stumbled on the Roland company. While I didn't go top end, not knowing how serious I would get, I bought the TD-11ks ($900 new) and added a 4th tom. A good place to start for headphones would be Shure or Audio-Technica (I have the latter, ATH-M50, which I got for $130 new). You could go with DW throne (the 3100 is about $80) and a DW kick pedal (the 3000 is just over $100). They won't let you down, but of course you can go higher. If you want to make a noise, get the Simmons da2000s drum monitor with 200 watts of power. I only use mine when the house is empty, but it's actually useful at other times when I am using headphones because I plug the phones into the monitor's headphone socket, which cancels the sound from the monitor itself...and low and behold I can EQ the headphone signal with the low/mid/high controls on the monitor, plus control the volume with a stick (the Simmons control knobs can be turned with a stick). Can't do that if I plug the phones into the drum module because then the module volume does not separate drum volume and headphone volume, and laptops usually have very annoying volume controls!). I also use the monitor with the headphones (crazy eh?) to get sound from the phones and the 'thump' from the monitor.
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Roland TD-11: PD-105 snare, PDX-100 toms (3); CY-13R ride; CY-12 crash (2); KD-9 kick; Iron Cobra HP900 kick pedal; VH-10 hi-hat; Iron Cobra HH605 hi-hat stand; Simmons DA200s monitor; Sony MDR-7520 and Audioquest Nightowl headphones; AD2; VEX Apex, Sync, Icons, Boost, Masters 1-2; Drum-Tec LA Studios, Real Acoustic, Alternate Rock Sound Editions
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