


The Nitro Drum Module is the heart of the kit. A pair of sticks is also in the packaging. There are a hi-hat foot controller and a kick pad with kick pedal as well as tuning and Allen keys.

Even from the outside, the kit shows what it can do: An 8-piece drum kit with “Next Generation” mesh drum pads, an 8″ dual-zone snare pad, three 8″ tom pads, three 10″ cymbal pads (one of them with a choke function). The box of the Nitro Mesh Kit is around one meter long, half a meter wide, and about an A4 page high. I am therefore curious to see whether an e-drum kit has emerged for both levels of experience. Available on the market since July 2018, Alesis says the Nitro Mesh Kit is the ideal drum set for beginners and drummers who wish to “play like a pro.” For me, these are two worlds. With the ALESIS Nitro Mesh Kit, Alesis offers a total of nine different e-drum kits to drummers. If you're new to electronic drums, or even drumming in general, I highly recommend this segment – you get great value for money and equipment that punches above its weight. In fact, as I'll cover in this guide to the best budget electronic drum kits, you can get a lot of value from the cheapest segment of the market as well. If you go higher up the price chart, you get some kits that can replace the real thing in 95% of cases. Modern kits now have pretty responsive mesh pads that offer accurate feedback and bounce. That's besides the fact that modern electronic drum kits are becoming fantastically good. You can practice all of Danny Carey's drum solos and no one would even know about it. each kit can have multiple drum sounds) and, more importantly, you get complete privacy. But in exchange, you get way more kit-per-kit (i.e. Which is why I've turned exclusively to electronic drum kits. The last real drum kit I had was when I was still in school and could have my parents' basement all to myself – with the nearest neighbor half a mile away. Practicing drums is how you ruin relationships and get kicked out of apartments. There are, however, some practical considerations. I've tried them all – drum machines, electronic kits, pads, even obsessively optimizing MIDI notes in Ableton to make my drums sound more natural.īut nothing quite feels the same way as real drums. I get it – nothing beats the feel of real drums.
