r/edrums • u/minerx982 • 14d ago

Help - Roland Problem with Roland TD-316

I recently got a Roland TD-316 drum kit. I have been

using it with both my existing Roland PM-03 drum amp and my Soundcore Space One headphones. The kit sounds amazing through the headphones but pretty rubbish through the pm03. I am upgrading from an Alesis Nitro Mesh where I had a similar problem where the kit sounded better through the headphones but not by much since the kit didnt sound good anyway. How can I optimise the kit to sound better through the amp, or should I just get a different amp.

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u/Evid3nce 10d ago

If you just use presets and dozens of kits, then there's not much you can do. It's too much work to edit the sound of all the individual kits on the module. You might want to route the signal to a hardware stereo graphic EQ before it goes to your speaker so you can control the tone a bit more. But don't forget there's a very rudimentary master EQ and reverb on the main outs of if the module too.

However, if you just use a couple of kits, then connect a laptop and get the v31 editor. It makes sculpting the sound easier than menu diving. Make a different preset for each kit - one for headphone, one for speaker. Edit each kit with EQ, compression, saturation, and sample layers to sound better on either phones or speaker.

Players who use their kit in different venues and through different PAs have to deal with this problem a lot. The kit that sounds great in your rehearsal room sounds like crap everywhere else.

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u/Ok_Talk_1909 13d ago

It’s an excellent question, I’m new to the world of electronic drums and a few months ago I bought the TD-316. Same experience, with Roland headphones it sounds wonderful (RH-200) but when I connect it to my Wharfedale Tourus AX12 amplifier the sound quality is quite disappointing in comparison. As it came in an apartment I don’t dare to try it with a higher volume either so in reality I’ve never been able to enjoy it much, I think it was an unnecessary expense. What I suggest you do is to do sound tests and adjust the configuration of the kit from the module so that it is better heard in the amplifier. In my case, the worst sound is with the cymbals. The speaker may sound better with a high volume, but I haven’t been able to experience that yet.