Waking Up The Neighbours

Boredom can be very bad, very bad indeed. Especially bad to your credit card when it’s a Saturday and your plans have once again been spoilt by the weather. It can lead you to do crazy things, the deperation to do something can even result in you heading out to look at electronic drum kits because your other half has always wanted one (and partly because your dream of unlocking your inner rock god was shattered when you realised you’re crap at guitar).

One short trip later and we were back with a set of Alesis DM5 Pro Kit drums, the guy at the shop split the kit with the Surge cymbals, but unfortunately gave us the wrong cymbals so for the moment we’re stuck without them.

The kit took around about an hour to assemble, though this is just the time necessary to get everything bolted together. Once it’s actually up there’s almost an infinite amount of adjustment that can be made to each item to suit the player/playing style. It’s pretty high quality and the sound, through headphones at the moment, is good enough from our perspective for Mel to learn on.

It’s also fairly quiet, though you can hear it from a few rooms away but only a bit. The main problem is the noise caused by using the kick pedal travelling through the floor and adjoining walls. A bit of padding/proofing should take care of that though.

We’re waiting until we get the cymbals to give it a proper test but we’re more than happy with it for now.