Now I’m no drummer, by any means. This kit, though, fills a spot for me that extends all the way back to my childhood. Back then, in the 80s, the only options seemed to be a crummy electric kit with fake drum sounds or a traditional kit. Neither of which my parents would have ever bought for the ensuing noise fest and therapy that surely would have followed. Fast forward many years and the Sears catalog has progressed to the Amazon experience. I did a little research on this kit, not extensive, but enough to feel good about my purchase. For the money this kit felt like a great start for this beginning drummer. The Assembly Putting this thing together does take a little bit of time and the instructions are not crystal clear. If you pay close attention to the photos and endure a bit of trial and error, you’ll get it together. It took me about an hour. Most of the time was spent figuring out which part of the frame goes where and ensuring that the ends of each piece slot in correctly. Be sure to loosen brackets as you go so that each piece will slide in easily. Tighten things up and you’re on your way. The Trial Again, I’m no drummer, which was clearly evident in my initial attempts to play along with Dave Grohl tracks. Note: Probably not the guy to try and keep up with right out of the gate. That all being said, the kit sounds great, I think. There are about 10 different combinations of kits creating plenty of sounds for me to play around with. The base sounds real, snare, crash and high hat. Pretty cool. Everything is adjustable, like a real kit, to fit where you want things. Just takes some messing around for it to feel right. Kind of like finding that sweet spot in a new car seat. The cymbals were a bit quiet relative to everything else and plugging in your iPhone to play along via the auxiliary jack is cool, but the sound quality isn’t great from the iPhone. I plan to solve that by just playing through a stereo. Then adjusting the drum volume to the optimum level to both play along while still hearing the song. I have not yet toyed with all the settings, but will over the next few days weeks, actually reading the manual- novel idea. Overall Overall, I’m really happy with this kit so far, albeit just a few days. It’s sturdy feeling, enough so that I feel I can beat up on it a bit. It can be folded up a bit to be tucked against the wall. It’s fun and relatively intuitive. Most of all, I’ve got my first kit many long years after pining over lesser options from a tattered Sears catalog back in the 80s.

I record using this kit. The kick takes a little getting used to, especially with a double bass lick on that single pedal. I like that i can hook my phone into it and play along with drumless tracks on YouTube. It hooks up to my board and has a consistent signal with no hum or noise. The mesh heads are interesting but easy to get accustom to. They're snappy and bouncy like an acoustic set. There's not a ton of kit options and a couple are useless imho, but the few that are good, sound really natural during recording. Overall a good deal for the money and pack away nicely when not in use.

The drums went together easily. It took about an hour to get everything set up and plugged in. I bought this kit for use with Clone Hero, so I was rather disappointed when the $300 kit didn't come with a MIDI cable. The built in software does have some good features for practice and warming up, but it sounds like an old 2000s, cheap keyboard, and there are only 10 sound kits to choose from. No more sounds can be loaded onto the kit. All that being said, the drum heads are small, but they feel really nice to play on. The mesh surface provides good feedback. The pedals aren't great, and I'm sure if you really pound on them, they won't last long. I'm going to look into adding a shock absorber, as the sound of plastic striking plastic doesn't sound good. They also don't fold like the description states. You can loosen some bolts, and move some pieces around easily like you're folding them, but I think for them to be "folding" they have to have a folded state and unfolded state. With these, you just loosen some bolts and slide the kit around until it fits where you need it. As a beginner, there's no way I'm doing that. Once you get your kit dialed in, messing up your arrangement isn't very appealing. Great entry level E-kit, all in all.

Alesis mesh drum kits are an excellent choice for beginners and intermediate drummers who want a reliable and affordable electronic drum set. The mesh heads, diverse sounds, and reasonable pricing make these kits appealing. However, more experienced players may eventually outgrow the features or want a more premium playing experience. If you're on a budget but want a decent electronic drum set, Alesis mesh kits are highly recommended.

I purchased to see if I would be interested in drumming and didn't want to spend a lot of money. I've had a great time drumming with the Alesis Turbo Mesh, but I don't recommend it for intermediate or advanced drummers. It is very limited on the sound, especially the snare. There is no individual volume control, and the 8" snare and toms is just too small to keep from hitting the stick on the edges when trying to play faster. It is a great starter kit to learn the basics, but if you progress past the beginners level, you will get frustrated with the lower quality sound and feel.

Kurulumu çok kolay bir şekilde yapılıyor. Ses alabilmek için mutlaka bir kulaklık, amfi veya aux girişi olan bir hoparlör kullanılmalı. Aux kablosu setin içinde bulunmuyor.Alesis marka bateri kulaklıkları ile ses kalitesi bir hayli tatmin edici. Kulaklıkları ayrıca satın almanız gerekiyor.

We got this for our 10 year old son who is doing drum lessons. Building was a pain in the bum but once built the are very sturdy and strong. The wires could do with a little more give in them but all just reached. It was larger than I expected and not so easy to fold away so will end up staying up and taking up more room, if you want quiet dont let your kids take drums full stop as you can hear him especiallythe foot peddles. All this said my boy loves them they have everything he has on his lessons the sound is amazing and he has been on them for days and days, it has the timing and lots and lots of other things for him to do now at his level but also when he does progress he can link a laptop to it and do other things also. We did by him the matching headphones to them and he has tested them to his gaming headset and he says that the alesis head set is better for the drum set, he wanted these over all others as they have the same positioning as a real drum set and the same sound and feel .being un musical myself i didnt have a clue so his music teacher gave us a list of sets but recommended these and over all well worth the money.

I've just bought these drums so I can learn drumming without being too noisy. Easy to set up and adjust with lots of room.

Acheté pour ma fille de 8 ans, cette batterie est impressionnante par sa belle finition et ses options. Tout d'abord, le colis est particulièrement bien agencé et protégé. Chaque élément est dans un petit carton qui assure l'intégrité des composants durant le transport. Ensuite, la notice de montage est très simple, il faut compter environ 25 min de montage. Pour les câble, il suffit de se référer à la photo qui indique chaque nom des parties de la batterie. Concernant le rendu, la finition est impeccable. On ressent que le matériel est de qualité. Ensuite, le son est bon. C'est très agréable de jouer avec un casque (de qualité, non compris dans le colis). C'est même bluffant. Les différentes options de sons, d'accompagnement, de possibilité de connexion à un PC, sont très appréciables. Cela permettra aux plus jeunes de progresser sur un matériel qualitatif, tout en s'offrant de temps en temps un peu de fun. Le plus que je trouve génial: la batterie se plie pour une optimisation du rangement! Les plus: Qualité de la restitution du son, grande variété d'options, pliable, très bonne qualité des matériaux, solide, ne bouge pas à l'utilisation, très complète, rendu de frappe très bon, métronome intégré, réactif (aucune latense), possibilité de connextion (PC, Aux, casque, enceinte), deux baguettes dans le pack, frappe très silencieuse (idéal pour ne pas déranger la famille ou les voisins), du Alesis dans toute sa splendeur! Top! Être attentif: l'instrument se branche au secteur (c'est un appareil électrique), pas de casque dans le pack (aucun son sans matériel annexe: casque, etc), nécessite de la place. Je recommande vivement se produit!

Easy to use and easy to setup. They could use more drum kits but having so many already is good. It's not the most exspenvie E-drum kit but plays quite nicely. I would reccomend adding in some rubber floor grips to be able to change out for the spiked ones for people who have hard wood floors instead, but very good for the price of the item none the less. It's a bit tedious to put away and take out all the time specially when you got kids.