Pyle-Pro PED06 High Performance Digital Drum Set

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• 4 Drum Pads - 2 Cymbal Pads - 1 Hi-hat Pedal - 1 Bass Drum Pedal
• 215 Tones - 100 Preset Songs - 10 Drum Preset Kits - 5 User Kits
• Metronome Function
• MIDI IN/OUT Port
• Headphone Jack

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UPDATE 10 Jan 2011: The power supply died (due to the voltage fluctuation in my area i'm assuming) and one of the pads isn't working (floor tom). It could be a minor problem, I'll be taking it apart to check. Everything else works fine.

Alright peeps, this is my review of the Pyle Pro PED06. We shall now refer to this unit as PYRO PAEDOSex or PYRO for short. LOL.

And nevermind the hip hop references.

INTRO

First up, I'm not a real drummer. LOL.

I've been playing guitar and singing lead vocals in a hard rock band for over 7 years. I have also been producing for 4 of hose years so have a pretty good understanding of drum concepts and implementation. LOL. Meaning I know how drums should be played and how they should sound. It all starts in the mind right?

Basically I started playing drums about two weeks ago to keep my band prithvi and mc/bc rolling. My brother who played drums for us had moved to another group.

So I needed something that I could practice on at home.

My criteria was that:

1. It should feel like a regular drum kit

2. It should sound like one.

The PYRO meets these pretty well.

Now I have no prior experience with an electronic kit to be frank.

However I do know that considering how IMPOSSIBLE it is to practice on real drums in an apartment, its almost a no brainer.

Plus a major major part of rock drumming is hand foot coordination. This can be definitely be honed to perfection on a kit such as this.

REVIEW:

SHIPPING:

Amazon did well to deliver the kit on time so thumbs up to them for that.

I received the kit on 3rd Feb. It actually landed in India on 1st Feb but spent two days at Delhi Airport because Air hostesses were using it as a sexual pacifier. LOL.

No actually because Indian imports and customs are CRAP and I needed to send them some kind of a disclaimer form.

I actually needed to call dhl to ask them what the hell was going on. They never called me and I lost 2 days in the process. Thats terrible considering I couldve been a better drummer today. LOL.

COST: $394

I did do some research on digital drum kits on amazon and had shortlisted two kits in this price range ($300-400):

Alesis Dm6 and PYRO.

I chose the PYRO because its pedals LOOKED more Heavy Duty with silver stuff embossed on black metal. get it? Black metal! :P

I also chose this because the description on amazon said that it had 20 kits and 200 something voices. Thats incorrect :(

ALERT: Althought this item description says this kit has 20 drum kits and 10 user kits. thats WRONG! It actually has 10 kits and 5 user kits witha total of 108 voices.

Also, although the picture here shows the words PYLE PRO on the pedals, the kit I got actually has a cool metal flame embossed instead. Which is definitely a great and welcome surprise.

I think I saw another digital drumkit on Amazon with flame pedals.

My take on this is that all these drums are made in China and probably at the same factory so they probably mixed them up. Not that it matters.

CONSTRUCTION:

When I opened the package I thought they sent me Robocop in a box. LOL.

The drum brain looks like a robot head. Its very cool.

The construction of the kit is Heavy duty. The frame is made of solid heavy metal. The snare drum is made of thrash metal. The entire kit is probably about 85% metal and pretty good quality. The rungs and holders are all SOLID metal. You could probably break doors and threaten neighbours with them. Don't do that though. :P

Even the drum sticks provided seemed nice. They're about medium gauge but feel good and sturdy. Not cheap.

I have never assembled a drumkit before but this was very easy to figure out and the entire kit was assembled and ready to play within 30mins.

The supplied adaptor is very cool as it supports voltages from 100 to 240 volts. That's pretty good. I didn't risk it though and used a step down transformer that I had.

The pedals are also very good. They are almost the same size as conventional drum pedals.

The preset action on the kick is perfect. Its like an actual DW (I have a 7000) or Tama kick pedal in its response. This pedal can probably be used as a regular kick pedal so that's a good thing.

SIZE:

The rungs are adjustable and the kit overall is VERY compact. The design is clever which allows you to fold the kit up in case you need to put it away. That's a useful thing for people like me living in modest dwelling.

SOUND:

I have only really tried the first kit (STANDARD) and let me put it to you this way: It sounds like a well tuned well mic'd and mixed drum kit in a great studio. The samples used for each piece are good sounding and robust. The pads are touch sensitive but you do have to smack them kind of hard to get a sound. I'm not sure if all electronic kits are like this.

To be more clear, for instance if you would tap a cymbal very gently, you would definitely hear something. But with these pads, you need to hit it with some amount of firmness to get a sound. If you tap it gently there won't be a sound. Or at least not one you can hear. Once again please remember this is my first time on an electronic kit. Chances are its probably a question of pads used. This might improve their durability in the long run.

The snare is very very good and has a dual trigger which means you can do rimshots etc.

The hi hat pedal is responsive and works well with the hi hat pad.

I'm sure this kit will sound even better as a midi trigger. Simply because with midi you can have different layers triggered for different velocities on each piece in the kit. That makes it sound even more realistic. Not that it doesn't already sound good but the kit will definitely sound better with midi. I have yet to try this and will share the outcome of that in an update.

OVERALL:

Well I've only had the kit for less than 12 hours but so far it seems great. I'm itching to go back to my apartment and play it.

Apart from being a practice tool I'm looking forward to recording using it and you can get some VERY decent drum tones out of the box. And with MIDI triggering you can forget the studio altogether (I haven't tried it yet on this one so don't quote me on that yet).

I hope this review was helpful to you. Please do give me your feedback and check out my music. I'll be updating this later.

Have fun.

UPDATE: 9th Feb 2011

MIDI: Midi works.

Updated: 6th April: Used the kit to successfully trigger and record using EZdrummer. Touch sensitivity intact. I was having some trouble with MIDI stopping working on the VST which then needed to be restated sometimes. It could be a problem with the VST. I shall find out and share the results!

Update: 2012

One of the pads stopped triggering. I tested the connections and it turns out the pad itself is fine but there may be something wrong in the connection to the drum brain or the drum brain itself. I haven't been able to fix this yet and so am making do with a two tom setup.

CONCERNS:

1. The audio level is KIND OF low in both the headphones and the line out.

2. The Rubber cymbal pads and snare top get stick marks real fast. I suggest taking some of the soft padding material that came with this kit and sticking it over those parts you hit. I did it and now its not so bad.

I'm on youtube as arjunkaul the king of rocknroll

Buy Pyle-Pro PED06 High Performance Digital Drum Set Now

i love this digital drum set. i've had it now for a good amount of time and it still rocks every time.

i love the versatility, compactness, small size that can be taken anywhere, and all the settings and sounds and styles that it has.

i would lie if i say that i haven't had problems, but i expected it. on of the connections in a cable went bad after a while, but it was for using it so much... as i said expected. nothing that a little fixing couldn't take care of.

i still believe it is worth every buck.

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