Mesh heads are the greatest thing that ever happened to electronic drum kits. I have my Roland and my acoustic built together in the same rack and the feel of going back and forth from the acoustic heads to the mesh heads is barely noticable. You can tighten and loosen the mesh heads to feel like a real kit. Your only limitation with the Roland is the # of pads you can put on it. If your using it to gig, it can be a pain switching programs back and forth between songs (even worse during). Also, if you add more cymbal pads (any of the PD series), they have to be on boom arms. If you use the regular pad mounts (the ones the "toms" are mounted with), the vibration of riding the hi-hat hard will make them trigger by themselves. No good during a show!!! It took me a while to figure out how to get them to stop doing it. I ended up having to completely rebuild my rack to isolate those pads.
All in all, the TD-20 is the cream of the crop. Go for it!!! You'll fall in love with the versitality and once you get the little quirks worked out, you'll never stop beating on them!
Good luck!!!
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