{"id":1931,"date":"2021-06-14T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2021-06-14T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:25:36","slug":"e-drum-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/e-drum-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"E-drum upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing electronic percussion almost as long as I&#8217;ve been drumming. I bought a set of Alesis DM10 electronic drums a few years back to replace my aging Yamaha e-drums. I was sold on the fact that Alesis had &#8220;real-feel&#8221; mylar heads that were tunable. Though the new pads had much more sensitivity and some decent sounds from the stock drum brain, I didn&#8217;t like the feel of playing them. The drumheads turned out to be louder than any rubber pads and were difficult to get stick bounce from while playing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently upgraded the heads to mesh with a conversion kit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.682drums.com\/\">682Drums<\/a>. The upgrade was pretty quick and painless. Oh what a difference! The bounce is incredibly satisfying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip of me playing along to one of the new Sumptus Ignis songs in production to test them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"E-drum upgrade (Sumptus Ignis behind the scenes June 2021).\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjifsMzGt04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing electronic percussion almost as long as I&#8217;ve been drumming. I bought a set of Alesis DM10 electronic drums a few years back to replace my aging Yamaha e-drums. I was sold on the fact that Alesis had &#8220;real-feel&#8221; mylar heads that were tunable. Though the new pads had much more sensitivity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[435,380,52],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-682drums","tag-drums","tag-electronic-percussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}