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Looking to buy an electric drum kit. I played acoustic in the past but never electric. For home use only, so need to be pretty quiet. I was looking at the Traps E550 kit. Any good?
I had an Alesis DM5 Pro kit. hated it. like playing rubber bricks.
Don't know about the Traps kit but one thing you need to look at if buying for home use, is how much noise the kick pedal transmits through the floor. I bought the Alesis kit for home use, got it home & set it up, three bars in mrs_d started complaining about the noise 😯
Best advice I can give is 'try as many as you can' to get a feel for them. If you don't like the feel of it, you won't play it, so it defeats the object of buying the thing in the first place
my acoustic kit is now permanently set up in a rehearsal room so I don't have the problem; the band rents the room for £100 a month, shared with up to 3 other bands, cheaper than your normal rehearsal studio & you get to leave the gear set up - no faffing around. I still take my breakables home though, £2k worth of top end Zildjian & Sabian cymbals & a Black Panther steel snare don't really want to be left lying around.
As John says, if your playing upstairs, it's the kick drum pedal which generates the most noise. The kit looks good for the money, but based on my experience with Roland kits, unless your into 80's power ballards, I would be looking to use it with a computer running a sample library, like BFD or Superior Drummer to generate the sound. The inbuilt Roland sounds were horrible.
I dunno how much Roland's kit's are s/h these days, but there is an advantage that they have a really big installed base, so if you get problems or your looking to expand, there are plenty of people who can help.
an alternative might be an acoustic kit with mesh heads...not sure about the cymbals though
Cheers for the input. Ideally I would get the 2 box drum it 5 kit but its very pricey. I had a quick play of an older traps kit and the drum heads felt pretty good and responsive and the newer kits have better pickups. The rubber head ones are utter pants.