GiggingDrummer Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Thursday, Aug 7, 2008 - 11:21 PM

Well, there are outputs in the back and a headphone jack in the front of the TD20. You can set the click to only come out of the headphones. I think you push the click button and the click settings come up. You can change tempo, click instrument(cowbell,tamburine,etc.) and output to just headphones or headphones/output.

You can set the track to give you 1 or 2 bars of click before it starts. That's handy to count the band in. You can also start the track by trigger. That's cool if you want to start and stop it mid-song.

King Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Thursday, Aug 7, 2008 - 10:36 AM

How do you go about setting that up so you can split the loop and the click between the mixer and headphones. Forgive me....I'm not very technical when it comes to stuff like that. But I'm learning!!

GiggingDrummer Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Wednesday, Aug 6, 2008 - 11:54 PM

I use a TD20 for practice and as add ons to my acoustic kit, and sometimes just the brain. I'll pre-program backing percussion loops. You can have the percussion tracks going to the sound board and the click to your headphones.

drumhead101541 Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008 - 9:58 AM

Yeah the ol' y splitter trick! Comes in handy!

King Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Tuesday, Jul 29, 2008 - 12:45 PM

If you don't mind having duplicate cymbal sounds you can get a y-splitter to help free up extra inputs for drums and such.

drumhead101541 Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Monday, Jul 28, 2008 - 9:22 AM

Well I have played on drumfreak's TD20s and yes he does have extra pads. I think he has and extra cymbal and an extra tom hooked up most of the time. Sometimes we change things around. But yeah the TD20s can hold a good amount of pads. I think Roland makes an adapter to add way more pads. If you have ever seen those ridiculously huge electric kits, that's what they use to expand the number of pads.

WraithDagger Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 - 4:41 PM

hey df on your td-20 are you playing the standard kit or have you added any pads?  this is the one I am thinking I want to get but I want to add a few more cymbal pads to it... (I do alot of cymbal work and want to come close to my kits total cymbals...

webadmin Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Thursday, Jul 17, 2008 - 5:43 PM

I have a TD-6 and it works for me.

drumfreak Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Wednesday, Jul 16, 2008 - 3:01 PM

Welcome to the Electronic Drums!  I've been playing mine for about 2+ years now (Roland TD-6 and Roland TD-20). I just got the TD-9 brain today can't wait to try it out (when I get a @#$@# harness!)

Dave Heim Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Wednesday, Jul 16, 2008 - 2:41 PM

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Roland is most likely the best choice for an electronic kit. A great bargain these days is the new Roland TD-9 Kit. They have a large assortment of drum kits built in, and they are fully customizable to your liking. And you can plug in a flash drive with media files on it, that way you can play to music, all built into the kit. If your looking for something better (and spending a bit more), take a look at the Roland TD-20 Kit. It's basically a six-piece kit, and has some more features. We have plenty of audio of us playing the TD-20s and all of our Drum Lessons were done with that same kit.
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Thanks!  I will look into those!

drumhead101541 Says Re: New to electronic drums

Submitted On: Wednesday, Jul 16, 2008 - 2:33 PM

Roland is most likely the best choice for an electronic kit. A great bargain these days is the new Roland TD-9 Kit. They have a large assortment of drum kits built in, and they are fully customizable to your liking. And you can plug in a flash drive with media files on it, that way you can play to music, all built into the kit. If your looking for something better (and spending a bit more), take a look at the Roland TD-20 Kit. It's basically a six-piece kit, and has some more features. We have plenty of audio of us playing the TD-20s and all of our Drum Lessons were done with that same kit.