Acoustic VS Electronic Drums | Which one's better? 

I think that e-drums are prefect for recording and practicing in your house, and the acoustic is worth for live situations and studio recording.

Nothing beats acoustic drums

It really comes down to personal choice. My last band gigged for 11 years with VDrums and for me there was nothing better. I have full control of the bands sound and volume and it allowed us to scale our show from the smallest of settings to large venues. Also for recording it saves a lot of time tuning drums, miking and sound checking. Onstage the ability to hear everything so clearly without the acoustic kit was a hug advantage and I saved myself 11 years of ear fatigue... Again it has it's place...

I use to play an acoustic drum kit when I 1st started to practice/play, but when I started to play gigs, majority of them were very small size venues (mostly coffee shops), and ppl complained that the band was too loud, so I had to use blast sticks, now those worked, but they're not great for doing ghost notes, drums rolls, play fast tempo, stuff like that, and they easily broke, so I went to Edrums, and it was far better to play! I was able to control the vol., compress the sound, have percussion, the list goes on. If you're not happy with the feel of the heads on the Edrums, I HIGHLY recommend drum tec's real feel heads, I did that, and what a difference! happy drumming!

For the sound category, it would depend largely on the samples and output equipment used for the electric drums. I used to have an acoustic drum set, and it generally couldn't give me any sounds that sounded near as good as what I would hear in say a Toontrack drum sample library. It really depends on the situation. Also, acoustic kits require far more maintenance to regularly sound good.

As a kid when I got my first acoustic drum kit I love them. But then over time I realized that they didn't sound anything close to the drums on records and tapes that I was listening to. I used to try to dampen the toms by putting narrow strips of material under the heads which worked. But only to a certain degree. I upgraded the Skins to Remo pinstripe which was the best I could find at the time and Meinl and Paiste cymbals, but it was all in vain because you just can't get away from that awful din that Acoustics produce. A lot of rock drummers from the 70s and 80s are half deaf due to practicing for hours on end on very loud acoustic drums. No matter what I did they still did not sound like the drums on the recordings I was listening to. When I discovered Roland electronic drums that was it, I was sold, and I sold my acoustic drums and I never went back there. For me it's all about sound quality I don't care how Rubber pads, feel I don't care how mesh pads feel I want sound quality and I want to be able to control the volume without making myself deaf. Not to mention having to cart around massive heavy acoustic drums and of course all the cymbal stands along with it. I'll never go back to acoustics. On edrums you also have about 20 diff kits to choose from and can custom design your own using l, the huge amount of samples available. No broken sticks, no tuning drums, no replacing heads, no cracked cymbals, no mics - two guitar cables and BANG - stereo, studio quality sound. The manager of the music shop I frequent , says that 75% of drums sales are edrums, and he predicted that if some acoustic manufacturers don't adapt - they'll go out of business. Everywhere I look I see people wanting to sell their acoustics to upgrade to edrums. Unfortunately good sound doesn't come cheap, and edrums are very expensive for the more upmarket ones, but with acoustics, it's not just the kit you have to buy, its the cymbals too. I can literally fold up my entire edrum kit and put it over my shoulder and head out. I've played at popular venues where the sound guys say they've NEVER heard drums sound like that through their PA's. 😊

let’s not talk about how smooth that fill was at 9:35

Woow. I love the balance you've stricken between the two. Amazing video.

Amazing video! I would like to see more drum lessons because I am starting in a few days! Thank you for the inspiration! Keep the good work!

I definitely agree with the final result - ever since I started playing drums I have spent an equal amount of time on acoustic and electric. And I love both. They are both amazing at different things, but are both so good. They must be categoriesed as different instruments like keyboards and piano. The only difference I would have made, was to swap the winners of the first and last round around, as (in the sound category) you can still tune, and make your kit responsive to ghost notes on an e kit by changing sensitivity settings, and on an e kit, you can basically get an unlimited amount of sounds and configurations out of your kit, especially if you use a plug in. Where with the acoustic, you can only do so much to change the sound, and changing the sound dosen't come with the touch of a button like e kit. The last round, even though an e kit saves you buying more sticks, you can use brushes, hotrod, mullets, and so many other styles of stick, giving you a different sound and feel. On the e kit, no matter what tool you used to hit the pad, you always get the same sound. So for sticks, it depends If you are talking about price or sounds.

They sounds so good played together. It's hard to dislike. Perfectly mixed

2:20 "Give it to me baby, uh-huh uh-huh". Just popped into my head, Cheers!

I have a $5,000 Roland kit and would happily trade it for an acoustic set if I lived in a place where noise was not an issue. Bottom line is if you want the purest sound and most important play-ability the acoustic set is far superior, especially the cymbals.

I've got an acoustic kit and I CANNOT imagine anything better!

When it comes to the dynamics of your strike pro kit, you get much better results when you set the sensitivities specific to your playing.

I have played acoustic all my life. I now own a Roland TD50kv2, which is an industry standard. If I had a choice to keep only one. I’m sticking with electronic. It just so much fun and much more versatile.

The thing I like the most out of an E kit is if you don't like the sound of a kick, snare, tom or whatever, you can always change it out. Where as with an acoustic you have a chance of just getting bored of the sound of it, but you're stuck with the sound unless you wanna spend 100 or more for another snare or whatever. And honestly I'm not really a fan of how the modern day drums sound anyways. I think they sound too weak. I miss the older drum kits. So I stick with E-drums so I can put in my OWN sounds and how I want it to sound. I think too if you wanna record an E drumset, it would be cheaper to do so because with an acoustic you'd have to buy mics for EACH drum and that can run into a lot of money. Also thinking about that, that can get in the way.

I definitely agree with the result! This vid was so entertaining!!!… You made me laugh a couple of times lol

Finally!!! I was waiting for a video like this, bro love that thumbnail lol so sick.

I had that same same Alesis kit and took it back for a Roland V Drum set. The Alesis is incredible, but Roland has the best eDrums hands down.

Personally, what I lose in dynamics is well worth what I gain overall, both in recording, rehearsal and live play. I don't do any pro recording, just stuff to promote the band and to learn from. No mics needed and I can change the snare etc with a push of a button. Rehearsal, hands down the E kit is superior. The drums easily fit into the mix with a full band and even in a small room, the vocals are still on top. Practicing with headphones is a blessing. Live play, no open mics on stage is a huge plus. The snare and cymbals are never too loud and the toms are never buried. Of course you need a proper PA to handle them but I have that. The annoying sound of the sticks hitting the cymbals is tough but I always play loud enough to cover it up. Even in a quiet band rehearsal, I turn the instruments up enough to almost cover it. Also, no ear protection is required. The E drums allow us to have minimal stage volume, especially if everyone else is going through the PA.

I was really struggling with this, at first I wanted a acoustic drum set as my first drum set but the I realized that, Electric Drum sets were better for beginners. Thank you for this information!

Awesome video!! Question of many new drummers answered!!

I prefer e-kit more because of 2 things, Noise and practical and to me E kit is better. I actually enjoy watching this video. Great Job

Good job! I like it. Thats fair enough to not have the winner cause these drum sets are completely different and good enough in different situations. E-drums are perfect for home practicing and the acoustic one is classic for concerts.

I have had three electronic Roland drum sets and spent a lot of time trying to make them sound more acoustic, the feel of the rubber plastic cymbals were my biggest hate. So I gave up and went back to acoustic and never regretted it. We have a band room so disturbing the neighbours is not an issue. It’s horses for courses, yes the drum sticks are an issue with acoustics but I like the rim shots on an acoustic more. Good video 👍🏻

Damn I love your energy, great vid!

E-drums have such an advantage in so many situations for the non-studio, amateur drummer. I think it’s more of a use-case thing, not so much a head-to-head one. Having both would be ideal, but even for people deciding wholly to use one or the other, it’ll still come down to use-case.

Awesome stuff!

Even tho electronic kits have diff options and its more easier to move around , i would still go for the Acoustic !! GREAT VID !! LOVED IT :)

Amazing video guy! Congratulations!

Finally just naught a new acoustic drum set after having the Alesis command x for a few years. I’m so exited to get back to the clearly better type of drums

Definitely Acoustic are superior in every way, but I can't play loud drums in my house, so e drums are the only option. Unfortunately I just can't find a hi-hat that works nice. The hats are their own instrument, and I love to constantly be changing the feel/pressure on my hat pedal.

I think that’s the most gorgeous PDP kit i’ve ever seen! Had no idea they had stepped it up so much! That snare sounds magnificent too! BTW i just got the black n red DDrum Hybrid 5 kit with the Mapex all black hardware and double kick and love it! It’s the best of both worlds! I do wish i had that Alesis module you have though,that would be rad! I’m getting the Paiste Red cymbal set soon to match the rest of the kit!

I practice 90% of the time with an e-kit, although I prefer to have a couple of pre-gig rehearsals using the acoustic kit. You do need to re-adjust your playing/feel/dynamics whenever you've spent too much 'consecutive" time on the e-kits... You don't want things to sound and feel weird in your opening songs, and if you don't adjust quick and proper, you're in for a long "stressed out" night... lol

I use to have that same 805 kit loved it

This is a great video. I never really had a decent Acoustic Kit (it was cheap, poorly setup and sounded like shit lol and I used duck taped brushes to keep the levels low) but when I demo'd a TD30KV I fell in love with it, it was almost like the real thing to me at the time. But over the years as I got better and found it had to express my playing and the stage presence was not amazing so I did the only thing I could and made a custom A2E (7Pc Tama Superstar Classic + TD50 all 16 inputs maxed out/plus TD27 for extra digital inputs, Digital: snare, x2 rides, HH and the Roland Thin cymbal line and I use SD3 cause Roland sounds suck) and it added a lot of depth to the stale, bouncy, shaky and weak sounding TD30/TD50. But I know it's still nowhere near what an Acoustic kit wold feel and sound like and it's holding me back some...but it's the only way I can have a drum kit at this time and am grateful these options are available to us.

I was afraid to buy an acoustic kit cuz of its treatment and mics setup but when i bought it that even without mics they are amazing such a raw and powerfull sound with no effects and robotic things

As a person who played acoustic his whole life and now lives in an apartment and plays on an electric, nothing beats acoustic. The dynamics and drum sizes make it better. But if you’re someone who is trying to decide which one to get, or finds they can only play on an electric, don’t worry. You can easily learn on either. You’re still just basically learning how to use each limb independently. Don’t stress over it. Either is totally totally fine.

Great review

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I love watching you drum. Great comparison. Gracias amigo!

Totally thumbs up dude !!! That cracked me up !!! Couldn't agree more with the outcome. Both are beautiful !!!!! As long as yer pounding out great beats, it's all good !!!!! I have the Roland TD-17kvx and a Sonar and Ludwig mix for acoustic, and I love them both, although I spend many more hours on the E-kit because of noise too. The drum stick outcome had me rollin !!!!! Hahahahahahaha That's so true !!!! I only had to get like one extra pair of sticks in like a year, compared to running through sticks like water on the acoustic sets, but hey, you can't beat the acoustic set as far as feel and sound. Love how you have yer drums tuned by the way, they sound awesome !!! Have a great happy day !!!!!! Thanks for that video !!! Great playing !!! Yer amazing !!! :-)

Brooo, your talent is on fire 🔥🔥🔥

Both are great🔥🔥🔥I like to play both of two😍😍😍 The sound of both instrument are fantastic👌🤘👌

Both sets sound amazing, but I have a questions what mics and rack gear are you using to get that studio sound on the acoustic set?

Awesome video man❤️

9:23 felt like I was back in the band room

I personally think acoutsic is better But if you live in an apartment than I electric is better Have an amazing day alejandro Love from Ireland ❤🇮🇪🎸😀

Im lucky to have both a high end Ludwig and a Roland Virtual Acoustic VAD503 and the Dynamics and feel of the roland are really close to the real kit. The Digital pads of roland really make a difference and you can even play with brushes smh. I like both and don't find issues going back and forth between them

Lovely comparison video i have ever seen... ❤

Great video!!!

Sos increíble!!😍🤙🏻

Love the both man…

Edrums for a small home where noise may be an issue, acoustic if you can get away with it. Just get any drum set and play it’s fun either way

I bought Yamaha DTXplorer back in 2008 to get back to drumming again after 20 year on the guitar. Still use the same drum stick to this day. I don't play on a regular basis anyhow, but 14 years with the same sticks! 😁

Prefer acoustic for sure, but shocked by how far e drums have come!

Both sound good, but nothing beats the classic!

Nice bro.i liked the way you demo🤟

very funny, informative and entertaining video. keep them coming

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the video was.... BEAUTIFUL!!

Great job on this!💪

Hi Alejandro how are you hope you're okay stay safe and have a amazing day today God bless

@Alejandro, I kinda disagree about the 1st comparison (Sound), because even with basic Yamaha DTX6K, other brands not sure.. you can tune in very detail for each crash, cymbal, snare, tom, all of them. Every detail tunings are possible and quite easy yo do, you can even upload the recorded sound of your specific acoustic unit (hi-hat, bell, snare, etc.. you name it). So seeing the above.. e-drum wins actually. But indeed about the feel, ;mesh head and rubber crash are not a fun things to play with.. however, again, Yamaha silicon snares & toms are great! Disclaimer: I'm not from Yamaha, their distributor, sales, or anything else. I ended up fall in love with Yamaha, not Alesis, or even Roland, because of Yamaha's silicon pad and practicality of the sound upload and recording, superb, even for the basic one I have. I'm far from pro, just a layman, starting to pick up a very old buried hobby. Love your videos, bro! Cheers! 😉🍻

In the end .. it's all about what we love ... ..nice teaching ... Though i have only seen e kit like four boxes ... Can't figure out what is what .... Only saw acoustic drum kit in its complete sense .. never been a drummer ... Was only a vocalist for a while ...

Great video thanks for sharing.

You should always take an e-drum as a replacement for an acoustic drum, where an acoustic drum can not or hardly be used, e.g. because of sound level or size. Especially, if you than stick to the e-drums and do not always change in between them, they are absolutely fantastic! I do never want to get back to the time where after some hours of practicing, you were hearing impaired because everybody had to adjust the level to the drummer.

Acoustic drums and electronic drum is very very nice and wonderful sound ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (All Drums Is good)❤️❤️❤️❤️

congrats alejandro u are about to reach half a millions subs

This is very informative for a beginner like me.... after watching this video makes me like subscribe & follow. Keep it up Alejandro....🥁🥁🥁

Very very beautiful cover bro ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hoping to buy a drum set and start lessons from Ur channel.

Love how he reply to every single comments.

Very good and informative video. keep it up

BRUHHH HELL NAH I REALLY WATED THIS VIDEO AND I WAS EVEN ABOUT TO COMMENT IN THE BELLA CIAO COVER I WAS SEEING AND THIS VIDEO JUST POP UP

Hi bro u remember me? Sorry I was not able to see ur Videos😥😥😥but know I am back. BTW Wat an amazing video

Beautiful shoot-out. Your energy is amazing as well, behind and in front of the kit(s). I'm sorry if I missed it in the comments, but what mics are you using (the whole chain if you're feeling it because why not?) please?

I prefer edrums because you can get wild on it, hit it as hard as you want without bothering anyone. You cant go wild on an acoustic drums without making enemies. Unless you have a dedicated sound proofed room for your acoustic drums, only then is the acoustic better. Btw this is the best comparison video on acoustic and edrums.

POV before starting the video: Aquostic Wins.... always it's better than the other drums...its originality is always bonkers...

Electronic kits are only good if they have mesh heads

Me encanta que te tomes el tiempo de traducir el vídeo a inglés

8:04 Ive been waiting for this exact video. Im about to buy this Alesis kit and Ive been searching to see how loud it is. Looks like lll be good to go for an apartment!

Thanks for Sharing This😊

nice. It is very fun video. Thanks

All your drum set is so beautiful sounds and nice ❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯

My daughter wants to play the drums, so I'm doing some research, this was really helpful.

Awesome bro

Cool vid!

One thing that I have learned is to record the E-Drums with midi maybe the first 1-2 times through. Listen to the playback and you can adjust your velocity errors through midi. Once you have everything good, play back and record the audio.

After playing five different Drum set. From the Roland TD 1 K. To Roland TD 17 K. And ATV E xs 2 and exs 3. I would say that the E drum set with all mesh head which are 10 inch or larger. would have better fuel than a acoustic one, that's just my opinion. And with the edrum, you can hitting drums and symbols really hard and that's essential for beginners to learn. The acoustic drum set is loud as hell.

I recently bought the Strike se. Favorite e kit I ever owned I have had TD50 and Mimic pro. I also have had some sweet acoustic kits DW Ludwig superclassics Tama Artstar. For my older age praying e kit @ home is good enough.

Great video, its true and agree with you.

yeaahh,.they are beautiful,. we love drums !

Nice dude

This is fair way of comparing very true I love it

I have both an acoustic and e-drum at home. My wife suffers from hyperacusis (sensitive hearing). When she’s home I will use my e-drum as the sound of the pads doesn’t really travel through the walls. And when she’s not home I go ham on the acoustic. I prefer the acoustic overall… but the e-drum definitely has its place.

Ufffff your beats are amazing

Cost would a be good addition to this great video, Your fills and the hi hats sound great.