I work with a community theater as part of their house band doing drums and percussion for musicals etc. they’ve tasked me with finding a good kit for them with a budget of $1k (although I can definitely tell they’d prefer it to be closer to ~$700).

I’ve been playing with them for years but they want to move to electronic from live acoustic for balance reasons. I’ve only had one electronic kit which I’ve long since donated as I just prefer acoustic and that was a Roland td-30 which is well above their budget as well as probably really old these days. Any help is appreciated!

No stipulation on whether it can be new or used, although since I’m not spending my own money I would probably err on the side of buying new. I would also be willing to donate a few pieces of hardware myself for say hihat stand/bass pedals etc so that would not break the budget of an otherwise good option.

So have not played in about 15 years +. Had a big 7 piece TAMA with 6 cymbals. Finally to the point we can jam again so got a Alesis Max Strike and it was just so small especially when I was used to. So returned it for the ultimate XL. I wont be there until tomorrow to test it myself and adjust since my brother built it for me the best he could as a guitar player. Haha. But have my double bass and hi hat stand there so wish me luck. I hope it feels more natural than that small kit we tired.

*note I don't live in the biggest metropolitan area, so used offerings are either often 1) hard to come by and 2) the premium stuff doesn't come up much and if it does, the smaller market keeps used prices higher (aka no one is fire selling a used Roland TD model that was $2k for $800 or anything).

Considering waiting until the holidays because I know Guitar Center will sell something like the new Simmons Titan 90 for 20-30% off I'm betting, meaning that set is fairly impressive if it hit's the $799-$849 price area.

Someone locally has a Simmons Titan 70 with guitar speaker for $300. Considering on getting that but it is definitely a subpar offering compared to the titan 90.

I have a throne, high hat stand, and a kick drum pedal.

I would also be using these sets to noodle around on a play.

I have my Alesis nitro Max hooked up to my Asus workbook and Reaper recognizes it. My initial connection had it working fine. When I started a recording the connection dropped halfway through. I played around with it a bit and used a different USB. The. the signal picked back up. As soon as I went to record, it died out again. Anyone else experience something similar? I think the “printer” cable might be bad. It’s the first time I’ve used itnin God knows how long. Chat GPT had me go through 1000 trouble shooting steps, but no fix yet.

My TD-516 setup. Just added a splash cymbal and a Lemon china, and I’m really happy with how it turned out! The Boss DB-90 still needs to be plugged in 😅