Post by RedShark on Sept 18, 2020 7:31:04 GMT -5
Background...
I primarily play guitar, also dabble in bass and singing. I've been working on getting a band together for a while and one of the humps has been finding a drummer.
Last year I took the opportunity to trade a guitar I wasn't using for a fairly basic electronic drum kit by Simmons (SD500). It's probably not a great choice for gigging but I mainly wanted to have something to leave set-up in my music room permanently so that potential drummers wouldn't have to drag their entire kit around every time we wanted to practice or leave their equipment at my house.
I may start dabbling in drums a bit myself, too, seeing as I have it here.
As it happens, I also have remnants (including the brain) of a Simmons SD7PK which looks like it's somewhat of a step-up from the 500. This isn't complete, though. There's no frame. It does have some of the pads but it's not clear which are which, and it doesn't have either of the kick pedals.
The 500 works OK, but I'm curious if I may get better results if I plug in its various pads/kicks into the brain of the 7PK instead - is that going to work OK and if anyone here knows these models specifically, is that likely to be an improvement that's worth the effort?
The other thing I'm curious about is what's the best way to get these amplified? I know there are amps specifically for drum kits - what I've been doing so far is feeding it directly to my PA. Is that reasonable or would I just be better off getting an amp for it?
Also, if PA is fine, is just a standard instrument cable from the brain to the PA's input a good option or would a speaker cable be better?
I primarily play guitar, also dabble in bass and singing. I've been working on getting a band together for a while and one of the humps has been finding a drummer.
Last year I took the opportunity to trade a guitar I wasn't using for a fairly basic electronic drum kit by Simmons (SD500). It's probably not a great choice for gigging but I mainly wanted to have something to leave set-up in my music room permanently so that potential drummers wouldn't have to drag their entire kit around every time we wanted to practice or leave their equipment at my house.
I may start dabbling in drums a bit myself, too, seeing as I have it here.
As it happens, I also have remnants (including the brain) of a Simmons SD7PK which looks like it's somewhat of a step-up from the 500. This isn't complete, though. There's no frame. It does have some of the pads but it's not clear which are which, and it doesn't have either of the kick pedals.
The 500 works OK, but I'm curious if I may get better results if I plug in its various pads/kicks into the brain of the 7PK instead - is that going to work OK and if anyone here knows these models specifically, is that likely to be an improvement that's worth the effort?
The other thing I'm curious about is what's the best way to get these amplified? I know there are amps specifically for drum kits - what I've been doing so far is feeding it directly to my PA. Is that reasonable or would I just be better off getting an amp for it?
Also, if PA is fine, is just a standard instrument cable from the brain to the PA's input a good option or would a speaker cable be better?
