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Hey, I'm James from Better Music
And this is Simon from Roland
And I've just played the TD-30KV - a beautiful kit
Very nice, hey? Incredible. I really like that patch you were playing to with the brushes
that really shows
the dynamics in responsiveness as well so maybe just, can we show people again
how sensitive the snare is
It's actually possible to set it more sensitive than that as well that's
actually set with threshold of about 2
which means it won't start triggering until it exceeds the threshold of 2
but you can have it at zero
so you can play it with your fingers. The whole idea is that
anything you play should be able to come through on the kit
So, if you try that on a lot of electronic kits on the market, you won't hear anything
so it's very responsive. It needs to perform like an instrument and play
like an instrument
actually if you using brushes then it would actually be able to use its sweep
sensing technology and actually know
that each finger of the brush is actually a different brush
is actually different stick and it gives you a sweep sound
rather than using sticks, so
it's a simple case of telling it that you're using brushes and then adjust its sensing
accordingly, so it's very powerful. And this is all the top of the range
Roland pads and cymbals? Yes, so these are the
V-Pads we call them, so these are the PD128s, they're a
large size pad, you can customize the shell covers for them as well so you can take
these off without any glue
It's just a little thumb screw underneath there, they come off and you can swap them for any
type colour wraps you want, or cut your own, it's really easy all the
dimensions come with the kit so you can lay them out and cut your own wraps
They're actually beautifully designed they're really
heavy duty, they're not meant to be light necessarily, they're designed to be really solid
and have a bit of nice give when you hit them, same with the bass drum it's a
14 inch bass drum that is quite deep and has a really fantastic thump
to when you play it and you can really lay into it, so for example, the bass drum on that kit
so you can hear that *** just touching the actual head and the head's starting to vibrate
and when you hit it harder, the whole body of the drum actually starts to resonate
so it's doing that through a clever combination of synthesis
and samples which we call our COSM technology
and also SuperNatural is another technology that we use in their
which allows it to seamlessly shift through all these different types of
sounds being generated. So, this would be a pretty great kit to use live
Absolutely, it's the go-to kit, I mean, basically the first thing is that it feels
like the spacing of an acoustic kit, you can customize it however you like
make it look how you want on-stage, also the module has got separate outputs
so that allows us to have kick, snare, toms, cymbals, everything going to a separate
channel on the stage box which keeps the sound engineer happy because then they
can do all the things they like to do
hopefully not mess up the sound but they can gate, EQ, compress
whatever they need to do and they've got
everything on separate channels, so it's great. Or if you want to you can
just do what we're doing today, which is running the digital out
of the kit, which is just a single RCA lead into our recording system
that David over here is recording and he's just taking a stereo
of the kit in digital so there's no noise, no loss of signal across the room
and he's going to the recording setup like that
it's a great way to record. Alright, so we've done a bit of tuning and did
a bit of different muffling techniques as well
through the brains on different kits before, what can this do that's different?
Well, why don't I show you
So, there are a lot of different things you can do with a TD-30
module which is on the TD-30K and TD-30KV
but one of the things I really like to do is to
layer sounds on the snare and on the hi-hat
so this is a kit called 48 FAT which is the ACDC kit
because I reckon it's
a nice fat sort of Rock sound, but what I think is pretty cool with it is to be able to
actually add something to the hi-hat so if I go into my instrument settings
and I go in here to edit, I can
firstly I can change the size of the hi-hat, so at the moment it's set to
to be a 14-inch hi-hat, but I can actually make 16-inch
or I can actually go bigger and make it 35-inch
okay which is a bit silly but sometimes can be good to get an interesting effect
especially if you want the outside to be bigger
and the top to be smaller, so you might want a 7-inch
Definitely not something that Phil Rudd would be doing, I think he's quite happy with his
standard hi-hats, but
we can go back and we'll choose something a bit more sensible so maybe
we'll have 14-inch
for the verses and then when we play open in the courses
we might go for a different size so maybe 17-inch
so we have 14 and 17 so we've got verses
back to 14-inch again
The other thing we can do is actually add something to the hi-hat, so I go into my 'add' section
and I might want to add a tambourine. Tambourines on top
and I have my normal hi-hat sound on the outside. But, what if I want to actually have
a cowbell and turn up the volume a bit Now I have a cowbell sound
and I can also add one to the edge of the
hi-hat as well so...
OK, so now we've got a cowbell
and I might want on the edge of the snare drum
I want to add a tambourine on there, so I'm going to go to tambourine
turn it up a bit
So now we're getting further away from that standard
rock drum sound, I can also, now that I have my
hi-hat happening here with the cowbell I can even change the microphone position
I can have a brighter sound
or warmer sound towards the outside
brighter...duller
it's moving the microphone just like you'd do in the studio, because
now in the studio the first thing you do usually is you get the player hopefully
they can play the drums
then you tune the instrument, you choose the type of heads you want
you can do the same thing on here and then we also choose
the microphone and the position of the microphone so for example this bass drum here
it has a coated head on it
which gives us a nice soft, round sound, but if I want it to be a bit
punchier I go with the pinstripe head or a clear head
which is a broader sound. So this is before,
coated, pinstripe, different sounds
So I've changed the drum sound and I haven't chosen different sounds, I've just changed
the way it's miked up
and the way it's layered as far as cowbell and tambourine go
We can go to the nth degree there. My bass drum I can choose
firstly the type of head, which I just did, tuning,
muffling, whether there's any muffling in it at all
we can adjust that here, put a blanket in there, I can choose the resonance
mic position, inside or outside of the drum,
size of the microphone and tom resonance as well, so some of the toms vibrate
when I hit the bass drum
So that's pretty cool. I've changed the sound quite dramatically
very easy, and that's all saved as part of my kit, so that's now the kit
and I can record if I want or I can save it to my USB stick
and that's my new custom kit sound and I can name it, of course
however I like so it's easy to find.
Hey, I'm James from Better Music
this is the amazing Simon from Roland and he's going to play us out
Okay I really like this kit here called Super Loop, which has got a bass on the bass drum
and on here it has this sound here and I have some bongos
which I can play and when you put it together you've got...
So come down to Better Music and check outt these kits, we've got them in stock
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