Hey I finally got this DTX400 electric drum kit setup the best way I can triggering the drum kits in Addictive Drums .
I also had alittle more time to practice using this kit , the kick pedal isn't easy to work with like a standard kick pad & pedal .
As a entry level electric drum kit and with this cheezy kick pedal I think I did a fairly decent job adding drums to the whole song I created months ago when I first posted it .
 
How does this kit sound to you using addictive drums , ALL NEW VERSION !
 
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?q=hi&songID=12178651

Hey, James,
 
The new drum pads sound really good with Addictive Drums!  I can almost swear that I hear a squeaky kick drum pedal, just like in almost every cover band that I've been in. :)
 
Great work on this nice smooth song!
Bob

Thats ok , I know whats happening around here ! As the oh saying goes if your not buying CAKEWALK PRODUCTS then your not welcome around here anymore !

I was hoping to get some feedback mostly with my drum mix & sound not so much my playing .
As for my playing I'm not doing too bad considering I haven't been playing steady for lets see over 12 years .
Yea thats when I sold my last electronic drum kit , that kit was a much better Yamaha electronic drum kit . I also had a very nice Yamaha Mid priced acoustic kit .

 
 

very interesting work.
its got some great passages and very original

it is playing with my head though,im not sure if the shaker is completely on time or not  :)
its a little loud in the mix,just a tiny bit.
i will say one thing here,you have some really powerful hooks man that pull the listener right in.

the drums are very original and sound really good.
you could always quantize that shaker track to set it right in the groove.
shakers can be so hard to set in a mix because of their frequency's,they tend to stand right out there with no bullet proof vest on,meaning you can hear any flux in tempo.
i just listen to it again(2 times now) and i cant tell,it sounds better the second time(the shaker)...lol.

i really like the hooks in this song like i said earlier.

Bob Oister


Hey, James,
 
The new drum pads sound really good with Addictive Drums!  I can almost swear that I hear a squeaky kick drum pedal, just like in almost every cover band that I've been in. :)
 
Great work on this nice smooth song!
Bob
 
Hi Bob thanks , its taken me over a week trying to get used to this kick pad & pedal that was part of this enrty level drum kit . Its hard to get double beats out of it but with alittle luck I'm finding that sweet spot with this pedal . Theres like zero adjustments with tension so you deal with it as is , sometime in June I plan on upgrading the kicl pad& pedal to the standard kick pad and a kick pedal . I'll be able to work with it much better when that happens , right now my money is going for a new electric guitar so I can get started learning how to play that instrument . Figure its going to take me a few years of steady daily practice to be able to play fairy good  . But hey if I start now I'll only be 62 years old ! A rockin old man with dreams of making it big before he drops in his grave ,  hey I hope to be a hundred before that happens ! LOL 
 
Oh that sound your hearing must be from something else , maybe my heart beat trying to keep time ! LOL
 
Thanks Bob - James

chuckebaby


very interesting work.
its got some great passages and very original

it is playing with my head though,im not sure if the shaker is completely on time or not  :)
its a little loud in the mix,just a tiny bit.
i will say one thing here,you have some really powerful hooks man that pull the listener right in.

the drums are very original and sound really good.
you could always quantize that shaker track to set it right in the groove.
shakers can be so hard to set in a mix because of their frequency's,they tend to stand right out there with no bullet proof vest on,meaning you can hear any flux in tempo.
i just listen to it again(2 times now) and i cant tell,it sounds better the second time(the shaker)...lol.

i really like the hooks in this song like i said earlier. 
 
Hey thanks , that shaker I could get rid of because you might be right I'll check
that out tommorrow .
This was a song I created three months ago or so , its a good song to practice my drumming with after all these years of not playing at all . I'll see
what I can do with that shaker thing I added from Reason 5 , right now my
electric kit is a five piece and I thought about making it a four piece kit .
Doing that I would be able to turn one of my hanging toms into my ride cymbal and use the cymbal ride pad turn that into another crash cymbal .
This kit is easy to work with if you want to change the drum mapping , still
fine tuning this kit see what happens tommorrow .
 
Thanks for the comments on the over all drum sound - James

Heres my DTX400K electric kit , checkout that great playing kickpad & pedal . Thats what I need to replace as soon as money becomes available in June .
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DTX400K/

James, read your second post in this thread... maybe that is why people are not commenting on your music. I was about to.. then I read that... and now I do not want to. Get a grip man. It has nothing to do with cakewalk. Nobody here much gives a (bleep) about whether you are using it or not when you are playing with your new drums. And frankly, your personal issues... should stay that way. I know... next your are going to say I hate you and blah blah blah... nonsense. If I disliked you, I would ignore you.

foxwolfen


James, read your second post in this thread... maybe that is why people are not commenting on your music. I was about to.. then I read that... and now I do not want to. Get a grip man. It has nothing to do with cakewalk. Nobody here much gives a (bleep) about whether you are using it or not when you are playing with your new drums. And frankly, your personal issues... should stay that way. I know... next your are going to say I hate you and blah blah blah... nonsense. If I disliked you, I would ignore you.

           Hey Shad go take a flying leap , you think I really give a dam what you think or say !
           Go back to walking around the park with your video camera , maybe you'll get lost
           lost along the way ! LOL

+1 on the song----I hear a time issue with the drums