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Electric Drum Kit Shirt: Beat Your Chest To The Music

Greg — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:27:19 +0000

Check out this new invention from ThinkGeek. Its the Electric Drum Kit Shirt! Simply hit the drums on the shirt with your finger and they play through the built in speaker… simple but amazing. With 7 different drum sounds you’re ready for a personal drum solo on your chest.

All 7 Drums are playable!!!

Product Features

Tap the drums on this shirt and they actually play through the embedded speaker
All drums on the shirt are playable. 7 Different drum sounds in all
Battery pack with speaker stores in hidden pocket near hem of shirt
Adjustable volume… the top volume level is really loud
Black 100% cotton shirt
Requires 4 AAA batteries (not included)
Exclusive product designed and manufactured by ThinkGeek

So I guess you’re wondering about the big question, how do you wash an Electric Drum Kit Shirt without ruining the mechanics?

Well…

Washing Instructions

Carefully peel drum decal from front of T-Shirt
Unplug ribbon connector behind decal and remove decal
Unplug battery pack and remove it
You can leave the ribbon cable inside the shirt
Machine wash gentle cycle on cold
Hang to dry

Check out the Electric Drum Kit Shirt in action:

And this little ripper!!

A great gift for a drumming enthusiast or event for yourself to show-off in front of your mates. Totally geeky. Totally cool!

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Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

XM Electronic Drums

Greg — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:47:36 +0000

Founded in June, 2006, XM is a professional electronic drum designer and manufacturer based in Taiwan, Asia. XM does OEM for major drum brands in the world.

XMT 5M Electronic Drum Machine Set Mesh Drumhead MIT

Its products include XM standard electronic drum set, XMR Professional electronic drum set, XM-CUSTOM, XM-WORLD, XMZ, XMT, and XML learning machine. XM products receive patents in several countries, such as US, Germany, Taiwan, and China. XM design team members come from various backgrounds, including electronics, mechanics, music, and ID design. With the collaboration of these talents, XM is able to customize drums sets satisfying different users’ needs. XM products are user friendly, allowing all users to enjoy drum-playing.

XM is one of the few electronic drum makers that provide mesh drumhead. If you already have a set of jazz drums and don’t want to spend a fortune to purchase an entire set of electronic drums, you can simply purchase XM drumheads and accessories and install them on your own drums to enjoy playing electronic drums.

Although I have not played an XM kit, from the looks of the video demo below they look like fun. The best thing I like about them is that they look so much like a real acoustic drum set and sound like them too.

I’ve done a bit of research on these kits and I have found that quite a few people think the modules are quite cheap in quality and don’t offer a wide range of programmed drum sets. The XM website (www.xm-world.com) is also a little difficult to follow and it seems quite hard to work out how to buy one.

Even doing a simple Google search for XM-Drums proves that its tricky to find places you can get your hands on one. The only place that I could find was a few listings on eBay and Drum-tech.

If you know of other places to buy XM-Drums, please leave a comment. Let me know what you think of them too. I’d like to find out.

Cheers

Greg

Review: Alesis DM6 Drum Kit (crunchgear.com)

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

How Electric Drum Sets Work

Greg — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:05:39 +0000

Basically, when the Electric Drum Pad is struck, this triggers a voltage change in the embedded force sensitive resistor (FSR) (or piezoelectric transducer…what a mouthful!). This signal is then transmitted to the Drum Brain via cables and translated into digital waveforms, which produces the desired percussion sound selected in the Drum Brain. Each Drum Pad can be assigned to different sounds, giving the Electric Drummer endless potential of configuring the Drum Set. This ability gives Electric Drum Sets a great advantage over Acoustic Drum Sets because you can simply change the whole sound of the Drum Set with the push of a button.

Some critics say that Electric Drum Sets will never sound the same as Acoustic Drum Sets, but some brands out such as Yamaha and Roland are starting to make the playing experience and sound almost indistinguishable to Acoustic Drum Sets.

Check out these Professional Electric Drum Sets:

Yamaha DTXPRESS IV Special Electronic Drum Kit

Roland TD20SX V-Pro Electronic Drum Set

For more information about the history of the Electric Drum Set, click here.

Cheers!