TD50K2 The next phase!.

[Tony Carpenter]

I’m in the middle of a house move. I was going to get a portable drum room, but, in rental property from the 18th century, you’d still hear my acoustic drums. In addition, big cost very little chance of a return.., so, same cost… this!!

I’ll post again when all set up.

 

cheers

 

[Tony Carpenter]

And now the real fun begins. I discovered I hadn’t installed the hihat fully with the securing clamp for the lower part. I have to say it’s very close to a real hihat in feel now. Need to definitely make up my own kit. BT1 percussion bar is going to be my cowbell or whatever going forward.  I need to make hihat play a mini tambourine on close a little rattle on play velocity. 

 

Edited June 26, 2022 by Tony Carpenter
Added photo

[craigb]

Stare at it now while it's still clean!  'Cause this is what will happen after you play for a bit!  ?

[Tony Carpenter]

31 minutes ago, craigb said:

Stare at it now while it's still clean!  'Cause this is what will happen after you play for a bit!  ?

Lol, I hear ya!. I’m reasonably good at cleaning. Those rubber pads got nasty quickly on my old td10 back in 2001 I remember :). 

[Tony Carpenter]

Anyone got a good tip on best practices for layers of sub sounds. The Roland site is, how can I put this succinctly, crap. 

[Tony Carpenter]

Time for an update?. Well I’ve added a little and tomorrow my Alesis Strike Multipad is coming. Wide angle photo alert, makes my far right 10in look 12in lol.

I’ve reached a point where the Roland kit is properly engaging the player in me. I can tweak it more yet, but general consensus is it sounds great.
 

 

 

Edited October 5, 2022 by Tony Carpenter

[Tony Carpenter]

And here it is, all shiny and new. Best of all, came with latest firmware installed bonus :).

 

[Tony Carpenter]

And my absolute favourite included patch is..

9 musical pluck sounds.. ahh 

 

[craigb]

But, most importantly, does it have a cowbell??? ?

[Tony Carpenter]

3 minutes ago, craigb said:

But, most importantly, does it have a cowbell??? ?

Lol. 

[Tony Carpenter]

And, the final?, layout. I was over reaching for the Alesis. Now it’s a natural placement. In my vision of expanding my kit I overlooked a major issue that reared it’s head too.
 

My 12 inch Tom 4 and my China placement extra cymbal had been plugged into the loom correct places. Tom 4 completely ceased sounding the head and as a result I bought a new skin and was about to replace cone… also that cymbal was a bit squirrelly. 

Both are now plugged directly into the TD50x and the issues are no more. Important lesson, don’t use the supplied sockets on loom from Roland!!. Sheez

 

 

[Tony Carpenter]

Just when you might think you’re done… Alesis crapped out, lots of other people with dead multipads too. Time to move the cash over on refund to the Roland SPD-SX Pro.

[Tony Carpenter]

And, here it is. Going to make my own patches as a priority. Sounds great though. 

 

[craigb]

Got the right mixing board yet? ?