![]() Its wood shells’ shallow design is space-saving, making it very portable and ideal for use in compact spaces and studios. Roland VAD306’s design is very straightforward yet still very commanding. Though it doesn’t look as good as higher-end VAD kits on stage. The design of the VAD306 is very nice and compact. This makes practicing easier and highly-immersive. The VAD306 has a built-in Bluetooth that allows you to easily stream music from your laptop or phone without cables. That said, some drummers still prefer the sounds from other drum modules such as Pearl mimic pro, the Alesis Strike Pro module, or higher-end yamaha modules. Incorporating these sounds with Roland’s Prismatic Sound Modeling delivers pretty realistic, smooth, and dynamic acoustic drum sounds. For those that are used to drumming in a studio situation and micing up an acoustic kit, the sound design controls will feel very familiar.The TD-17 drum module which is inspired by the TD-50, there’s a good collection of drum sounds from modern to vintage, with 50 preset kits and more than 300 percussion sounds. ![]() It’s neat to see that Roland is approaching sound design in a way that makes you think more about mic placement and mixing overhead/room mics rather than just using ambience or reverb settings. This allows you to build complex textures from the individual sounds available in the module by combining them together. When designing kits you can layer multiple sounds on a pad. You can also adjust the attack/release transients, EQ and compression for each pad/sound on the kit.įor the overall kit sound – you can adjust the amount of overhead and room mics in the mix, add multi-fx, and set master compression and EQ. You can edit kits in many ways, such as by changing head types and shell depth of drums, choosing room types and more.įor each instrument – you can adjust the overall level, tuning and muffling. There is a lot of sound design capability built into this module and it may not be obvious unless you dive into the module features. The new, thinner versions of the crash cymbals are also very nice and add a small bump in play-ability for this new Gen 2 version of the kit. ![]() The hi-hat pad being upgraded to the digital VH-14 is huge, and it plays very closely to an acoustic hi-hat. The 18 inch diameter of the ride is a huge plus as well. The multi-zone features on the ride especially make it feel and react like an acoustic cymbal. The cymbal pads overall feel better now than the previous generation. The 10-inch size of the toms can make them feel like a smaller strike target. ![]() The multi-zone toms are pretty standard, but have a good feel during play and compliment the snare nicely. The multi-zone snare pad anchors everything together and makes the kit very fun to play, especially if you play music that requires a lot of dynamics, rim-shots and cross-sticking. With a 14 inch snare, 14 inch hi-hat and 18 inch ride, this kit is approaching the same size as a smaller acoustic drum kit, with lots of surface area to work with on the pads. The new cymbal pads added to this kit for Generation 2 really do improve the overall playing experience, and it was already really nice to start with.
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