Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I’ve had it for about a month and play it every day, sometimes for hours. I haven’t noticed any problems of any kind. It’s nicely made and even though some don’t like the foot pedal, I think it’s my favorite part of the entire kit. Two things that do bug me is that: 1) with all the sounds this thing can make, there is no tambourine voice (and I will probably find other percussion sounds missing as I go along). You may say ‘who cares’ but they used up eight voices of a guy just saying ‘one’, ‘two’ all the way to eight, but no tambourine. If you play 60’s music, you may miss not having it. And: 2) The cables that connect the drum module to the triggers are not discrete cables. They all come together into a single DB-25 (parallel port style) connector and each cable is cut to length to reach each of the triggers. This is fine unless you want the drum module to be on the right (where it should be) instead of on the left which is where it has to go. Also note that the audio output is not extremely powerful. It is sufficient and you won’t have any problem driving an amp but you need just about full volume to drive your headphones to a robust level. These are some of the things I learned while assembling it: 1) The instructions are pretty lame. 2) Be sure to hammer the rubber feet all the way on to the legs before assembling it. They are only pushed on hand tight from the factory and end up not having uniform lengths which make balancing it tough otherwise. 3) You may want to swap the position of the High Hat support and the drum module. I put the High Hat out on the far left end of the bar (and the snare on the extreme end of its bar too) to open up the size of the kit somewhat, otherwise, it’s kind of cramped unless you’re a kid. 4) You can turn the floor tom bracket upside down to lower its height a bit (to be a little more ‘real’), and also move it all the way out to the end of the right bar (again, to expand the size some). 5) It comes with 5 Velcro strips for cable management but that is nowhere near enough. You can cut them lengthwise to make 10 which goes a long way to organizing the cables.