Pyle Pro Electronic Drum kit - Portable Electric Tabletop Drum Set Machine with Digital Panel, 7 Drum Pad, Hi-Hat / Kick Bass Pedal Controller USB AUX -Tom Toms, Hi-Hat, Snare Drums, Cymbals - PTED06

I'm a new drummer, but have been a performing musician and sound tech for decades so I know quality sound. I've only had this kit for about an hour but am already very impressed with it. The sounds it produces are high quality, someone could actually gig with this if they wanted to. I'm talking about running it through a P.A. system, which is what I'm doing with it. The pads have a little bounce to them so it feels something like a real drum head. A lot of reviewers have had trouble with the pedals double triggering but I'm not having that problem. I think they actually have a pretty good response once you get used to them. They do need to be velcroed to floor so they don't move around. I haven't explored everything this kit has to offer yet but it is for sure a nice inexpensive set to learn to drum on. I really like having the internal songs that you can play to also. I'm very happy with it.

I have some drumming experience from my high school days (decades ago), and have a reawakened desire to learn to drum on a kit, for fun. I started with a practice pad, and wanted more. But I have no space for a kit, and also want to play without disturbing others. The Pyle fits the bill perfectly. It's compact, while offering a snare, three toms, and three cymbals, and it sounds great. You might not mistake it for a real kit, but with headphones, it sounds surprisingly close. Even the speakers are pretty good, when my wife is in the mood to hear some drumming. The selection of "voices" for the drum heads is remarkable.I do wish that the pads had a little more bounce and sensitivity to softer taps. I can't do soft rolls on it as easily as I can on the practice pad. I have both nylon-tipped sticks and wooden sticks, and it doesn't make a lot of difference. (The tom pads seem a little better for this than the snare pad, for some reason.) The foot pedals are good for what they are--I have no experience with real foot pedals--but as other have noted, they move around on the floor a lot. I'm experimenting with little vinyl stick-on bumpers to make them less prone to sliding.One small design quibble: When you power it on, the default volume is 12 (that's even higher than 11, if you know what I mean). It's loud. Don't try it with headphones on. So you have to form the habit of Power On, Volume Down.I bought an inexpensive Luvay snare drum stand, and that works reasonably well with the drum set, though I have to go to the absolute maximum height to get the drums at a good level. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B077THLFYQ I have one accessory bag on the stand for the sticks, and another to get the pedals up off the floor when I'm not using them.I'm one week into using the Pyle, and so far have been loving it!

Overall, the set works and sounds better than I expected it to. I love how easy it is to arrange the kit and adjust the voices to my liking (for example, the hi-hat pad in the original setup is in the middle of the set, which felt weird to me, so I switched it to the upper left-hand pad so that it would feel closer to the way my acoustic kit is set up). I'm also going to set it up as a jazz kit as a second option, and also try a few other of the many other kits and voices available.It's very lightweight and portable, which is good, of course.I love that I can adjust the voices of the various pads, especially the toms, which I generally like to sound pretty deep and resonant. It's also really cool that it can be set for hand-drumming.However, as many here have mentioned, the pedals ALMOST ruin it for me. The bass pedal can be either just right, oversensitive (two beats for one kick sometimes, which is really annoying), or just stop working in the middle of a song (when that happens, I usually make sure the wires are all pushed in securely enough, and sometimes have to turn the set off and then turn it on again to make it work--which is, of course, really annoying when I'm in the middle of playing).I took others' advice and got some velcro and attached the pedals to a drum-practice pad, with a dumbbell in front of it so that it doesn't slide away. But that doesn't fix the sensitivity problems.As far as the second pedal, for the hi-hat, goes, fuhgeddaboudit. Mine just doesn't work, except very randomly a few times when I'm not expecting it.I do wish that the company would come up with a better solution for the pedals, because they matter! I know that some people have somehow devised workarounds, or even somehow figured out how to attach a real acoustic pedal, but I'm not that clever with this stuff and, honestly, it shouldn't be necessary for the purchaser to do those things. If I didn't like the rest of the kit so much, I'd return it. But I'm hoping that the manufacturer reads the reviews about the pedals and offers a better option for those of us who have already bought the set. I'm surprised that they were able to manufacture and electronic kit that works so well for so many things, but couldn't figure out how to NOT make the pedals so cheap-feeling and wonky (especially since it seems that there are others here who might actually use the set to play small gigs).

I just love this machine. It is fun to play, and I learn a lot while having fun. It is part of my work-out and plus, because I learned how to play on a left-handed drum set, and can't play on any open=mic night, because they all have right=handed sets - I can now play left-handed by easily adjusting my technique on this kit. I love all the drum kits. It is an amazing electronic drum kit. All I need to know is how to record off of it.

This thing is awesome. Well built, very light, lots of options, the samples sound realistic. If you wanna drum but don't have the space for a kit, you'll love it. Even if you're a seasoned drummer it would probably be perfect as a travel practice pad.