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hi ian place of deep purple here
and i'm going to have a little talk to
you about
these lovely new drums i've got
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i came across roland's v drums
and i was absolutely blown away the
things that you can do
uh now which were totally impossible a
few years ago
changes the whole ball game of uh
the availability and the ease of doing
something in the studio just to be able
to do a drum roll on electronic drum was
impossible before
now
you can play
little grace notes you can
hit a rim shot you can get different uh
velocity and power on the hit
which makes
playing
these electronic drums
very very similar experience to playing
an acoustic kit
now the sensitivity is so good
that every little contact the stick has
with the head is translated into a sound
and these drums capture all those little
drags those little pushes those little
inflections it now responds in a way
that
i never heard any electric drum respond
before without that
i wouldn't be talking to you today about
these
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the sound module which is the brains of
the thing here
comes with about
80 different kits set up inside it but
you can pick and choose which drum from
which kit
which symbol from which kit
pleases you the best and you can select
them and make your own user kit up so i
went through
every
every possible sound from each of the
kits
and we chose the sounds that were
closest to what i would try to achieve
on stage with an acoustic kit
bass drum i've used a a birch sample but
it's mixed together with an with another
drum which would probably from a maple
kit and if you try to do that with an
acoustic it looked terrible they'd all
be different manufacturers different
colors
um
but it's all in this little
genius box here and you found the sound
the sound that you like and you'll blend
it with another sound that you like
eventually you have created your own kit
and it's very very pleasing when you
just go
that sounds exactly like i want it to
you you know it's it's a personal thing
and it's your kit again
uh the heads are made by remo
so there is nobody better
they are the best head manufacturer in
the world and you can tune them to
to whatever
response you feel you need the essence
of the kit
is it's ease of use
and some great sounds
so what we have here
is another set of instruments
they don't get in the way of acoustic
drums in the same way that acoustic
drums don't get in the way of these
drums for me they will probably never
take the place of my drums on stage i i
truly believe in acoustic drums
it gives you another set of tools to
play with and if you do
feel like you want to try them out
i think you will
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you'll be blown away as i was
absolutely stunning
you