Wow. This is too cool
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The next step for sure you know having
already been so impressed by the
TD-50 and the V-Drums you know the
modules that come with that and how
responsive they are how expressive they
are and how much that actually felt like
a drum set to begin with then this is
just like you guys have taken it a whole
step further this is amazing
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The shells and everything there's
something about it that just has that
element of this is not your average
electronic drum set these aren't you
know your run-of-the-mill modules and
electronic drums not that Roland's ever
been run-of-the-mill it's always been
cutting edge but this is just
completely new and having it really like
setup as if this was like this
is basically like what I play live
on stage. You know having two kick drums
is super sick and a whole mess of
toms and stuff and nothing you didn't
achieve it was a different thing with
with electronic drums in the past but
now this is like this is what we grow
accustomed to being people who are just
fan of drummers from times where
there weren't electronic drum sets you
know and so this completely matches
that kind of like that lineage and
history of you know drum sets but it
matches it with a unique present-day
modern you know cutting-edge
technological developments that you know
you guys are always such a step ahead of
everything that's out there and this is
so rad that you know
you're marrying like two different
worlds completely into one
I mean like it's futuristic but it feels
like what what I'm you know
what I'm so used to my whole life but it's
so versatile in the sounds that you can
put through it and you know the
recording techniques that you can that
you can use something like this for so
yeah this is like you know you don't
sacrifice any of the things that you're
comfortable with as a drummer and it
just pushes the craft and the instrument
into you know new ways that we've never
experienced before. There might be a
conception among drummers that like you
kind of have to change the way you play
or approach the instrument if you're
going from acoustic drums to
electronic drums but this is like
there's no adjustment they're all so
expressive you can mute cymbals as you
would you know in an acoustic setting
that's seriously impressive so now with
this new sensor you know development for
the toms everything just takes that
next leap into expressiveness. So much of
you know our newest record was written
on V-Drums
you know was written on a Roland kit
and so to be able to have stuff like
that that makes the instrument even more
expressive and just as if I was
doing something that I would normally do
on an acoustic kit that allows me to
check out of my brain and not think like
oh well I'm playing on acoustic drums so
now I got a alter my playing it's like I
don't even have to think about it
and that's so impressive that you guys
have managed to do that
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So if I want to do a part that's got a
muted ride cymbal I can do that and
that's such an interesting thing
to me you know. A band like us we don't even
live near each other so a lot of our
collaboration happens by proxy you know
a lot of recording things on the road
and came up with a lot of demos based on
sounds that were inspiring from a brain
like a TD-50. Clown will sit on something
and come up with something that I would
never think of in a million years and
he'll lay that down and that'll become
the foundation of a slipknot song. I mean
you know this looks like any kit that
you would see on a major stage you know
and these are completely built for
that it. Really feels like you know
that responsiveness that body that
weight you know it's super important as
a drummer you know playing heavy
music you want that weight you want to
feel that impact and these give it to
you