This quick blog is intended for people who are already sold on the Edrum idea and just haven't quite purchased their kit yet. It's really only applicable for mesh head style drums, but whatever.

I have a Pintech Edrum kit mated with an Alesis Trigger IO I purchased used a few years back. For certain projects it's quite useful when utilizing modern samples like Superior Drummer 2.0, Steven Slate Drum Samples, or more techno-type pursuits.

I've found it difficult to tame drummers I've groomed for years to beat the living shit out of their real drum kit as if it were a [insert sexist comment here] woman to suddenly treat my plastic gadget as a UPS employee is SUPPOSED to treat his deliveries. In short, they blow through the triggers pretty quickly.

The Bad News
At first I thought ...

For those of you who don't subscribe to Recording Nerd Monthly and Bury Your Head In The Sand And Mix (what a terrible magazine title!) Ocean Way is a robo studio. Okay, that's not accurate. They are turbo robo studios. There are two studios (one in Nashville and one in Hollywood). If Ocean Way were a defense ...