Ion Audio Ied12 Digital Drum

Ion Audio Ied12 Digital Drum

ION IED11 Sound Session Electronic Drum Set; Velocity Sensitive Pads, 40 Presets and Built-in Sequencing at Your Command! For the player who lives in an apartment or with roommates, an electronic kit may mean the divergence amid exercise or no practice. Ion’s Sound Session drums are the answer to this severe issue. Taking up less space than established acoustic kits and the capacity to exercise with headphones on, the vantage is obvious, you may play on your own schedule. Providing the pads and foot pedals you need for playing drum, cymbal, and percussion sounds, the IED11 features a sound module with 108 realistic sounds, 40 preset patterns (including rock, R&B, funk, blues, rap, techno, reggae, jazz, new age, country, latin, and ballad styles) and comes with a pair of drumsticks. The soft, rubber drum and cymbal pads deliver a natural feel and with velocity sensible design you may add dynamics by plainly by altering up the intensity of your swing. ION IED11 Features Five drum pads respond accurately to quieter and louder playing Two foot pedals for playing bass drum and HiHat Drum module with 108 high-quality drum, cymbal and percussion sounds 40 preset patterns in a assortment of styles Sequencer for recording and playing back your own drum patterns.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2313 in Musical Instruments
• Color: 90 Days
• Brand: Ion
• Model: ION IED11
• Released on: 2009-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 16.00″ h x 12.00″ w x 32.00″ l, 17.60 pounds

• Five drum pads respond accurately to quieter and louder playing
• Two foot pedals for playing bass drum and HiHat
• Drum module with 108 high-quality drum, cymbal and percussion sounds
• 40 preset drum patterns including rock, R&B, funk, blues, rap, techno, reggae, jazz, new age, country, latin, and ballad styles
• Sequencer for recording and playing back your own drum patterns.

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125 of 126 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic Buy
By Coffee Klatch Reviews
I bought these as a Christmas gift for my brother, who’s in his 40s. He’s been a wannabe drummer for a while and has had a few acoustic drums sets, at least one of very high quality–but he’s never had an electronic drum set. (He’s jammed with bands, but not played professionally.) He had to sell his last and best drum set and hasn’t had a set for a long time. Plus he lives in an apartment. So I saw these at Target for $200 and decided to take a chance, thinking I could always return them if they sucked or were broken.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to see him during Christmas and wasn’t able to give him the set until 1 week ago, long after I’d lost the receipt, so I was really worried that he wouldn’t like them.

Well, I got a call today, after he’d been playing them “hard” for a week and he raved about them. Things he mentioned:

- 100 sounds (each of which is tunable, which I didn’t see mentioned in the specs, but was hoping for).
- He says he really beats the s**t out of his drums and he’s really impressed that the set so far has no dings, and neither do the sticks or rims of the drums. This, he thinks, is because there is a tube of air around the edges that prevents them from getting damaged.
- Came with headphones (though I’m not sure of the quality). He said I could have mine back.
- Came with drum sticks (as mentioned, no dents so far)
- He likes the way the module lights up, so it can help you learn how to play
- Likes that you can remove the drum part from the songs that come with it, so you can “be” the drummer
- Likes that you can plug in an MP3 player
- Likes that you can record your own playing. It sounded like you could only lay down one track at a time, but he’s not that familiar with sequencers so I’m not sure if that’s correct or not.
- Said when he got it out of the box he thought the stand would be flimsy, but he’s very impressed with it because it’s held up really well.
- He said the pedals were made in a sturdy way too with some kind of special bushing or something.

Basically, he said it was the best gift he ever got (“the best gift a man could give another man” were his exact words), so all I can say is that if you’re on the fence, get the thing! I should get one for myself.

Oh, I just remembered one more thing he said. He said, “If I’d known electronic drums were this good, I would have bought a set a long time ago.”

Update 5/15/2010 It’s been 3(?) months and he’s still playing these things on a daily basis for a few hours a day. He claims, and I can see, that he’s a much better drummer. Now he can keep time! (He refused to use a metronome in the past.) He now thinks in terms of patterns and fills, 16 beat measures, practicing with a part until you get it, trying different things to see which sounds best, etc. all concepts that he never got before.) On the down side, shortly after my first review, one of the foot pedals broke (he really does stomp the hell out of them though). He is pretty good at figuring things out though, so was able to fix it by himself. Had something to do with the way the contacts are made. Ever since his fix, it’s still been going strong.

Update 2/27/2011 He’s still, still playing them. They must be very well constructed.

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
it’s a starter kit
By nub drummer
this is my first drum set ever, as i had wanted to get my hands busy, and wasn’t willing to pay more for the higher end brands. However after a couple of days playing, i realized i may have been penny wise pound foolish. Let me just pen down the pros and cons of this set per my views:

Pros:
1. pricing. it is definitely affordable and a cheap starter kit for ppl who are unsure if they wanted to delve in further, or just get a feel of drumming (where acoustic drums are just not viable)
2. adjustability. the set is such that all pads + footpads are similar, that u can pretty much interswitch anything and adjust the levels/bars anything to be wherever u wanted them to be

Cons:
1. Sound adjustment. the module is fixed, where u can only volume up everything @ 1 go, and not individually. also, there is limited programmability and adjustment on this module. but this is what u would come to expect for the price of this item,
2. Foot pedals. the pedals are too sensitive and sometimes do not match the actual feel of pedals used for bass drums. certain amount of adjustment needs to made for this
3. sensitivity of the snare/hi-hat. since it uses generic single area pads, the sensitivity and effects u can achieve from these 2 pads are limited. this sometimes disallows u from playing the more complexed beats, etc

In conclusion, i did feel that should’ve invested more on a better drum set (had my eyes on certain Roland sets, etc), but I was heavily budget limited. If you can afford, i would say go for a better quality electronic drum. Else this would do, if u’re undecided drumming is something u want to do or not.

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Nice
By GJN
Great value for the money. It was a gift for my nephew who has just started taking lessons but as a former professional I was surprised how good the action was for such a reasonable set. The sound quality was also a lot better than I expected considering the price. Great set for a beginner.

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