What are your other obsessions?

[nonohmic]

4) Personal Finance - Money is power and so is knowledge.

Sometimes wish I'd gone into finance. I do science, and while I love it, I realize as I've gotten older it's the technical aspect and the depth of study that I enjoy. Not necessarily the content per se. So perhaps I could have got the same level of enjoyment from finance as I do from the sciences, and I'd be a LOT better off. Oh well.

 

[the general]

I’m curious about your electronic drum kit, I’m thinking of getting one myself. What did you get? Short review?

I got a Donner DED 400 kit. I think I paid $540-ish dollars off of Amazon. The kit has a lot of cool sound effects built in, click track option, and you can make your own custom kit with sounds available. I can't speak on the rest of the capabilities like recording and as such because I'm not doing that at this time. It comes with everything you need to get started.

That said, there are a few things I had to do...1)I got new sticks. The ones that came with the kit were really lightweight and didn't have a good feel in my hands. 2)Bought a new chair. The one that came with the kit is good enough for someone of smaller stature or a child, but I'm 6' 2" so the chair was too small for me. 3)Bought new headphones. The ones that came with the kit starting going out after the 2nd use.

The other thing that I didn't notice but my brother did(he's been playing drums about as long as I've been playing bass, 20-ish years)is the kit is a bit small when compared to an acoustic kit or one of the higher end electronic kits.

But for the price and trying to learn the basics, I think the kit is a good deal.

Here's the review that convinced me to pick up the kit. His reviewing style may not be for everyone but I think he's funny:

 

[MrAB4003]

Sometimes wish I'd gone into finance. I do science, and while I love it, I realize as I've gotten older it's the technical aspect and the depth of study that I enjoy. Not necessarily the content per se. So perhaps I could have got the same level of enjoyment from finance as I do from the sciences, and I'd be a LOT better off. Oh well.

I don’t have a finance degree, but I had to take a few required classes in college to get my business degree. Most of my love affair with personal finance came from educating myself online. I didn’t have any financial mentors when I was younger unfortunately so I had to learn on my own. Thankfully, I fell in love with the idea of making and maintaining money.

 

[Inconnu]

I got a Donner DED 400 kit. I think I paid $540-ish dollars off of Amazon. The kit has a lot of cool sound effects built in, click track option, and you can make your own custom kit with sounds available. I can't speak on the rest of the capabilities like recording and as such because I'm not doing that at this time. It comes with everything you need to get started.

That said, there are a few things I had to do...1)I got new sticks. The ones that came with the kit were really lightweight and didn't have a good feel in my hands. 2)Bought a new chair. The one that came with the kit is good enough for someone of smaller stature or a child, but I'm 6' 2" so the chair was too small for me. 3)Bought new headphones. The ones that came with the kit starting going out after the 2nd use.

The other thing that I didn't notice but my brother did(he's been playing drums about as long as I've been playing bass, 20-ish years)is the kit is a bit small when compared to an acoustic kit or one of the higher end electronic kits.

But for the price and trying to learn the basics, I think the kit is a good deal.

Here's the review that convinced me to pick up the kit. His reviewing style may not be for everyone but I think he's funny:

Nice, thanks for the details. I ended up renting an Alesis Nitro Max for a month to see if I can actually, intuitively, play drums. Turns out I can! I’m no Neil Peart, but yeah, it’ll work out fine.

As for the drum set itself, I haven’t decided what I’ll buy. The Donner you have is not available in Canada, so it won’t be an option. I might go with an Alesis (the model I rented or a step up like their Surge model) or an entry level Roland I have yet to try.

Anyways, it’s a fun new thing for me.

 

[the general]

Nice, thanks for the details. I ended up renting an Alesis Nitro Max for a month to see if I can actually, intuitively, play drums. Turns out I can! I’m no Neil Peart, but yeah, it’ll work out fine.

As for the drum set itself, I haven’t decided what I’ll buy. The Donner you have is not available in Canada, so it won’t be an option. I might go with an Alesis (the model I rented or a step up like their Surge model) or an entry level Roland I have yet to try.

Anyways, it’s a fun new thing for me.

I've been enjoying it. It took me a minute to get my foot working independently from my hands.

Something else I'd recommend getting is a practice drum pad. It's really helped with doing stick exercises when I can't sit down at the kit. I normally practice while I'm on lunch at work.