Should I get acoustic drums or not?

[brokenthumb]

Update: They arrived yesterday 1-7-09! Here's the post with the pics http://www.rockband.com/forums/showp...7&postcount=69

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Hi, I'm mainly a lurker on these forums for all the good info you guys put out. Anyway, so here's my story.

I bought rock band the day it was released last year mainly for guitar playing. I dabbled with the drums a bit and never really played them until this summer and for some reason I feel in love with them. Started on Medium for about a two weeks then jumped to first tier on Expert. Since then I'm up to a total of around 320 songs and can pass all but a handful of the Devil heads on Expert.

I've long since sold my RB2 drum kit and now have an Ion drum rocker with 4 cymbals (2 Crashes) and a MK1 pedal set up like most acoustic sets I've seen. Recently I've been craving to play an acoustic set, so I began to play videos off of youtube using the drum trainer in freestyle mode.

So I've seriously started looking into some acoustic drums. I have a budget of around $1000. I almost pulled the trigger today on a Pearl VX925 Vision Series with Pearl 900 Hardware and a Zildjian ZBT Cymbal Pack, it comes to a little over $1000. I also looked at the Pearl Forum complete kit it's under $700 for everything. Would I even know the difference between it and the Vision Series being just a beginner? Any other suggestions?

I'm torn between just keeping the Ion setup or buying an acoustic set. Any drummers with both which do you prefer?

[jrinck]

I had an acoustic set, and even though I was, at the time, on five acres, I was STILL self conscious about booming out the area around me. So if you have neighbors within eyesight/earshot, think about how your playing might affect them.

With an electronic set you won't have that issue at all.

[hallowedpoint]

If you're thinking of ever bieng in a band you should definately get real drums.

[teddybgame]

I think you should definitely do it. I bought my first acoustic set in May and I've been having a blast trying to learn. I ended up getting a Ludwig accent kit with Paiste cymbals, but my budget was less than what you're thinking about spending.

TBH my set sounds awesome now that I put new heads/rings on it and tuned it to my liking. I know there are much better sets out there, but my set is perfect to learn on and I'm not sure I'd notice a big enough difference to justify buying a more expensive set at my current skill level.

It sounds like you've done your homework. Pearl makes great drums from all the research I did last April.

[brokenthumb]

Thanks for the responses guys!

I live on about 3 acres of land with fields on all sides but there is a Church on my left. Might not get to play on Sunday mornings lol. Are they really that loud?

I going to think on it and do some more research over the New Year Holiday and make a decision by Friday or next Monday hopefully.

[davidshek]

So I've seriously started looking into some acoustic drums. I have a budget of around $1000. I almost pulled the trigger today on a Pearl VX925 Vision Series with Pearl 900 Hardware and a Zildjian ZBT Cymbal Pack, it comes to a little over $1000. I also looked at the Pearl Forum complete kit it's under $700 for everything. Would I even know the difference between it and the Vision Series being just a beginner? Any other suggestions?

I'm torn between just keeping the Ion setup or buying an acoustic set. Any drummers with both which do you prefer?

As a beginner, you won't notice the difference between the Forum and the Visions series. My first drum set when I was 15 was a Pearl Forum set, and I kept it and used it for probably 10 years before upgrading. It was good enough to learn on and play with in several bands. Not a studio-quality professional set, but certainly good enough to serve its purpose.

I live on about 3 acres of land with fields on all sides but there is a Church on my left. Might not get to play on Sunday mornings lol. Are they really that loud?

They're drums, yes they're pretty loud. But not loud enough that somebody 3 acres away will be disturbed

[psufan1993]

They are very loud.

[brokenthumb]

You guys are seriously scaring me with this loudness talk.
I'm think I'm still going ahead and purchase the acoustic set along with some isolation headphones also, so I can hear the rock band music while playing.
I think it would be better to start off with the Vision set b/c I was planning to replace the cymbals of the forum with a Sabian or Zildjian pack and after that extra cost added to the Forum set it would only be an $90 difference between the two sets.

I'm going to change around my room so I can fit the Ion and Pearl set side by side so I'll have the option to play the Ion's when noise would be a problem.

Hmmm now to decide which color to get! Fun Stuff.

[psufan1993]

Thank God PSUFAN was here to backup David's, b/c without this followup, I would have assumed David was talking out his pooper... Good Job

Was that necessary or are you always immature?

[brokenthumb]

If they sell that with Metallic Wine Red and Chrome Hardware, that would get my vote! I love that color combo.

Wine Red is a choice (not Metallic) and it only comes with Black Hardware sadly. I don't care to much for the Black hardware, I would prefer chrome.
The room it's going in has dark red walls with black trim though so it would match...

The Vision VX line has:

Wine Red w/Black HW
Jet Black w/Black HW
Olive Green w/Black HW
Metallic Orange w/Chrome HW (Hard to find this one in stock though)
Ivory w/Chrome HW
RB Blue w/Chrome HW

You can check out some of these colors in this thread.
http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/sh...d.php?t=196946