Alesis Strata Prime E-Kit Review 

Bro that edit of you flipping the drums around with the switch to the real snare around 2 minutes was so clean.

Yo Brandon! I use to be a regular at your guitar center, you were the one who taught me how to play doubles on my kick. So awesome to see your growth. That guitar center is still my go to music store. Thanks for all your vids, you’ve truly been an inspiration in my music endeavors and since than I’ve gone to experience many awesome opportunities playing drums.

8:00 Super clean Physical Education going on here. Great video as always!

dude no joke this guy Brandon got me further on the drums than anyone else after only a couple of his instructional videos. He showed me like two things and ever since I'm a different player. Best drum teacher on youtube hands down. A lot of the other guys miss the mark in various ways.

I miss you.

The production of this video is INSANE!!!!! Great video as always!!!

Brandon doing things and going places… As his first ever drum student, I feel largely responsible for his success… ok not really but Brandaid is doing the damn thing… that was his preferred nickname at the time. Unfortunately he REFUSED to autograph the Meinl Sand Ride he gifted me… in exchange for money…

I subscribed because your editing / video production is top notch! I got a lot to learn off of you🙏🏼🖤

I have seen over a dozen reviews on this kit, all of them with very good things to say. I may be buying this at some point in the future.

We've missed you! As usual great vid and great review 🏆🔥

This kit is definitely the best bang for your buck with REAL drum sounds

Love the little transitions!!

Your Thumbnail and Effects are next level👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥💯💯✅✅

😂 Love it Brandon. Epic review. Loved the wife rant haha. Love from SA

Damn, who did make those ads? If I was in charge of a very large marketing firm of some type I would seriously look into this. *cough* Anyways, very stoked to see a new upload from you! Always magical lol

Yo this is the detail in review i was waiting for....you are next to none!

That physical education break will remain legendary

Either produce more content, or direct the next House of Dragons episode, while playing drums on the film soundtrack. Any way you slice it, you have, hands down, the slickest, most pro level video content in the Drum Industry, and I would venture to say, your video work is in the top 3% of slickness of all of the RU-vid content. Dude, the cymbal edits at 3:49 and 3:55 were freaking EPIC!!!!

Your drumming is good, but the way you make your Videos is outstanding, i mean .... superb. What a production, brilliant 🫡

Great video! Hopefully picking this kit up this week. Fingers crossed!

Alesis had been stepping up on their game lately! Might be my next electric drums!

I don't play drums and this video has made me want this! 😂

Glad to see you again) Seems like it is not easy times. I hope you'll have a balance and hapiness

the transitions were peak dawg.

What a well made video man, Sheeeeshh🔥

Best review of this drum kit

He’s back!

Perfectly timed video. Imminent new living arrangements are meaning I'm having to seriously consider an E-Kit as my main practise set, something I've been resisting for as long as I can because, like you, I've never been a fan. If this can convert you though I'm suddenly very hopeful it won't be all bad 😆 Going to be looking into this! And, as always, such a good video!

Ohhh that transition 2:06 🔥

Awesome alwais✰you are the best drummer!!🥁🎶⚡✨🌠🌟👌🏻👍🏼

Finally after 7 months 😎

Those look cool AF👍

Crazy question, would you ever make a custom build for an e-kit like how you would for your normal acoustic setup?

Brandon, will you make the rest of your drum videos using this set instead of your acoustic kit???

I love my strata prime! The only issue I have is SD3 does not have the presets for this kit yet because it is so new.

The strata prime would be very useful as a recording/rehearsal kit. But the limited output routing options are a deal breaker (for me) in regards to live use.

it sounds good

I like Brandon and his content but yea, this is more of an advertisement than a review. No negative thoughts at all on the kit? Having a hi-hat move while playing it as closed would drive me nuts. More competition is definitely a good thing, but Roland has been ahead of the competition for so long and has proven their reliability. In my case I’ve had my TD-15 for 10 years and have never had an issue with it despite literally thousands of hours. Roland is also very compatible with other brands, so adding Lemon cymbals and such is a breeze. In my case, I’m going to purchase a TD-27 and combine the best of my existing kit with the new kit to make a larger one (unless Roland announces a new kit soon). For this kit, the module does look pretty nice. And having a large bass drum is great as well. I think it looks like a decent kit for sure and for people that go with it I don’t necessarily doubt it will be a good and fun kit. But if you are going to spend $3,000 plus, why not get the digital hi-hat and digital ride that Roland offers for a similar price point? And why not get proven reliability over a long term unknown? Just my thoughts as someone who is happy with their 10 year old kit and has been given no reason to change brands.

Wonderful review! And production! Not convinced by the sounds of the kit. The Efnote line sounds the best to me, I prefer super raw sounds. You have a new subscriber though!

Can you add a click when you’re playing your songs from the phone?

I’ve spoken to some people about getting this kit and they keep telling me not to due to alesis kits breaking so often. Is this kit the same or have they improved on it

Yooo that matt garstka groove!

Hey Brandon.I just found out about electric drums acoustic design. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but do you need to tune the bass drum ( like how you would with regular acoustic drums). I am aware of adjusting the mesh heads for feel. Would the acoustic of the room effect the sound of the bass drum. Or is the shell just for show?

Are we going to have more lessons on the new kit?

I scored one great so far I was able to add 2 psx6 and cy5

Ill be honest... Extremely impressive kit

Please Help I’m thinking of switching to an E kit exclusively because I cannot hear my acoustic drums through my in ears and Mics without turning the volume of the music up too loud and further damaging my hearing the bleed is too much even with custom in ear monitors and gunshot headphones over that When I’m just practicing I like to just sit behind the kit with no hearing protection any hearing protection I’ve ever used makes the drum sound crappy so I just play cold turkey. I can’t do this anymore my tinnitus is really bad. I’ve done that through my whole childhood. I’m 44 now I played on the Alesis strata prime at guitar Center, but I could only play on it a little bit with no songs to play along too just drums From what little I played on it I very much liked it Is it safe to assume that if I got an kit with headphones on playing music through with drum-less tracks that I would be able to hear much better and have better clarity and a better experience than my current set up with Drum and Mics what would be the difference between the two in clarity balance of sound with playing along to songs with in ears or headphones in your experience? Also can you make the rims on the Alesis Strata Prime sound like efx cymbals splash/china etc or can they only be made to sound like rim?crossstick clicks THANK YOU to anyone for responding I appreciate it. Reply

what camera did you use to film your portrait

I did a review of this kit on my channel. I talked about some issues I’ve had with mine in my video. One of those being missed hits occasionally with the kick drum. Have you had this issue at all? Great review, just subbed 👍🏼

BFD? In a module?!?!! Thank you, Alesis!!!

Oh bluetooth audio support has been added now? - nice!

There are some wicked high pitch frequencies in your desktop mic.

Having trouble setting up high hat with this in ezdrummer 3. Any thoughts/suggestions anyone?

Well, I owned a Alesis Kit like 3 or 4 years ago. It was their high end top of the line product at the time. I owned it for about 3 to 4 Months and than returned it to the seller. In those few months the ride cymbal trigger broke at least 3 times and the kick drum mesh ripped 2 times. I than bought a Roland set and it holds up with my playstyle since than. It just now starts to show some signs of use, but i think that is perfectly okay, because I play it almost daily. What I think is funny tho, that their marketing claims never changed and they still proclaim that roland kits are too expensiv and overpriced...

Wow Alesis is really getting around lately

Is this sponsored? It is not clearly disclosed, but the video feels like talking points that you got from Alesis. In future videos please disclose at the beginning of the video if it is sponsored or if they sent you the kit for free. It makes the review appear disingenuous. Otherwise great video!

Can we take a minute and speak about the 8 inch BSD Custom Snare drum ?????????? Bro it sounds sick

with the launching of Zildjian ALCHEM-E i can forgive alesis for the pricing xD

Great video, but… what would my wife have to listen to? What does it sound like in the room instead of the line out?

the multi-velocity samples is where Alesis shines, Roland really needs to step up their game in samples, for they use volume over multi hit samples, that and larger full color with touch screens...

Very nice 👍

I love the fact that we all can recognize the intro fill of that AAL song 👀

YOOO NEW B SCOTT DROP

Bro!! That ending 😂😂😂😂🔥🔥

So, do you actually play that guitar in the background?

Just I gone a say way in this seven month Brandon didn’t make Drumeo vlog ?

8:00 animals as leaders cover coming soon??? jajajajajaj

how much?

Where have you been?

I hope Alesis sells more of these than they can make. Just because I'm tired of half way decent electronic drum sets costing 8-10k. The only way E-Drums will get cheaper is if people buy this thing. There is no damn reason why E drums should cost that much. Maybe I could see for the first launch to try and re-up the manufacturing and software development investment. Electronic drum sets are the biggest scams in the economy. It goes 1.Electronic Drums 2. College Tuition 3. Nigerian Prince 4. Day Trading DVD"s 5. NFT's

You are running behind Brandon, Zildjian Alchem-e is now the new hype 😄

EF NOTE is the go to brand for electric drums.

The Strata Prime e-kit has some great features. The problem is that the kit does have some flaws and issues that many reviewers have pointed out. For the price it is a little expensive. If they fix all the known issues, the kit would be worth the price. Alesis definitely is stepping up their game and coming out with more professional e-kits, but as of now, I can not recommend Alesis until they come out with a high-end e-kit that works as it should without any issues. You do mention that this is not a beginner e-kit, and the Drumeo version would be better for beginners. I disagree. In my opinion, if you want to learn to play a drum set and an e-kit is the way to go, you need one that performs like an accustic kit. The budget friendly "beginner" e-kits do not have the sensitivity, playability, sound, or functionality of an accustic kit or a high-end e-kit. This means if you learn on a lower-end budget friendly e-kit and then go to play an accustic kit or a high-end e-kit, you will find it hard as there is a relearning curve to get used to a propper drum kit. If you want to learn guitar, do you first start with a toy guitar?

I’m a guitar player and got sucked into this!

Bro, I'm really glad that your channel has grown and you have a lot of promotional offers, it's sad that you don't have that warm atmosphere anymore.

Green screend the background for the match cut of the digital snare to real snare? The seemless slow zoom of the bg makes it look like one shot, it's crazy how perfect that turned out. Shit looked like David Blaine.

OMG dude!!!! You nailed the whole marrying a drummer than wanting expensive Bose headphones for noise cancelling and then didn’t use them…then we had kids and they heard the drums in Utero so they don’t care anymore I can just put Disney+ on for a little bit and now mommy has to go outside lol😅

What was that snare you played at 2:19?

You made the ads😃🤘🏽🤘🏽

Use this is a “practice kit”?? I think it’s a lot more than that

ive never watched you before and the intro caught me off gaurd

Broo you got your own sticksss???? Hellloo am i the only one seeing this?

Roland for anything over 1K easy. but cool vid bro.

the intro caught me offguard bro haha

The Forbidden groove 0:00

Kudos on the Intro 😅

details!

It's sad to see a young person with a such an uninformed and ignorant opinion about electronic drums. I've never heard a classic guitar player complaining that electric guitars don't sound like Spanish wooden guitars, or classical piano players criticizing synths because they don't behave like a wooden piano. Electronic drums are their own thing in their own league. If you expect them to act or behave like acoustic drums, then the joke is on you.

Why does the snare sound so bad in all the clips of you playing? It sounds like a snare with the bottom head that is torn. And I'm listening on dynaudio studio monitors. Maybe it's just how you dialed it in. The rest of the kit doesn't sound too bad. Low tom is a bit boomy, but not bad sounding.

They need different symbol sizes

Slick production, but not much playing. Not enough showing the module sounds. The limited sounds you did use sound very thin with almost no low end, like something is wrong with the audio?

11:03 Sounds wrong...but feels good 😂

“Cream your shorts” Your cooked💀

Edrumin and Superior Drummer blows this thing away. All e-kits for that matter.

Bro its been a year

He said electric🔋⚡️🔋⚡️🔋⚡️🔋⚡️🔋⚡️🔋⚡️🔋⚡️💡🔋💡🔋⚡️🔋💡🔋⚡️🔋⚡️⚡️🔋💡🔋⚡️⚡️⚡️💡🔋⚡️⚡️

Thanks for sneaking in some Animals as Leaders haha

"look at these ads, WhO MaDe tHeSe aDs" baahhaha

Layering different sound patches on a piano. Now layering different sounds on the drum wow😂

Roland Ned’s to be careful