subject: Advantages Of A Roland Drum. [print this page] This article discusses the advantages of owning a Roland drum. The only drums that Roland makes are electronic drums. Some of the big advantages of these, compared to acoustic drums, include the infinite range of sounds that can be triggered, easy setup, storage and transportation as well as the fact that the low levels of acoustic noise they make confer many advantages.
Many makers offer electronic drums, yet Roland stand out in this field for their leading state-of-the-art products such as the mesh-head drums which are used in their V-drum sets. These excellent products could be said to be the leading products in the field of electronic drums, to date.
Other types of electronic drums are also made by Roland, including cheaper types of drum trigger pads, practice drum pads, and also multi-drum pads. Different Roland drums will match with different needs and preferences.
Any possible sound could be triggered by using the MIDI output from a Roland drum. This is, of course, a huge advantage over acoustic drums which produce only one basic sound-type. There are many recent genre's of music which use non-acoustic drum sounds only.
Many people might not realize that even for acoustic drum sounds, using electronic drums can have very significant advantages both for stage use and in the recording studio. This is because the acoustic drum sounds you can trigger with an electronic drum have been recorded using the very best acoustic drums, with the absolute best recording equipment set-up by a very experienced professional. It can take many years of constant practice to be able to choose and place microphones for recording the very best acoustic drum sound.
Another big advantage with electronic drums is that the very low levels of acoustic sound generated make it much easier to design the whole band sound, either on stage or when recording a whole band simultaneously in the recording studio.
For all these very good reasons, a Roland drum is a superb choice!
