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Once again, we're continuing the E-kit saga and checking out the Alesis Nitro Max Electronic Drum Set. The kit is only $400 but also comes with a free trial to Drumeo and a free download of the BFD Player, which is a software you can use to expand the kits/sounds to the drum set with a computer. Basically a way to use the kit like a midi-controller, but you dont need any recording software. The module has 32 built in kits, 50 built in songs, plus other features to help beginners learn their first beats. For only $400, this is a pretty solid kit, its about the size/quality you would expect from a lower priced electronic drum set, but is a beast of kit to play!
This Electronic Drum Set is a BEAST for only $400
wheres my e-kit gang at?
Here
Where would you all be without my David.
Here. I have the Nitro Mesh and dig it.
I’m here
i wish i was part of it my ludwig is loud af
You should combine all the e-kits you have into one kit
Imitate a neal peart octokit
@@OverproofMMA Add a Malletkat and call it the Robot Apocalypse
The megadesk of e-kits!
@@OverproofMMAmore like initiate Neal Peart E-octokit
Do it.
To eDrum makers: Yes to the phone stand, super useful. Yes to dry acoustic drum samples of a few classic kit types, birch kit, maple kit, 70's kit. No to tons of novelty kits that are buried in cheezy studio effects or weird comedy electronic sproing sounds. No to tiny 10" hi-hats. No to only 10-15 user presets. Yes to Bluetooth for streaming in tracks.
i doubt they're going to read the comment, but you're right.
You know you can connect it to your pc and use EZDrummer?
@@salesone8615and double the cost of the kit :)
Exactly, modules filled with junk, like 200 snares you'll NEVER use!
@@salesone8615 they shouldn't include any sounds if it's going to be sold strickly as a controller. Since is not just a controller they should give us samples and features that we actually want to use.
4:02 Run to the Hills 🤘
That " Snare sounds familiar " snare sound reminded me of She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals.
I was thinking it would be funny if he said this would be the perfect kit for my Fine Young Canibals tribute band. I heard one of their songs the other day and I was thinking about why that snare sound is so bad. 1990 was a really bad year in music.
I thought it sounded like I've got the power snare. but that fine young cannibals joint is appropriate too.
Ooh ooh
It was such a distinct snare sound that idk how it reminded me instantly of that song.
@@sullysullster8217 Plus that 2 note riff that happens in the middle. So naff and funny.
Oh God those backing tracks are seared into my brain from my nitro mesh kit
Same !
Many of the sounds and songs date back even farther than the Nitro line. The ones that do go back farther were used on the Alesis dm6 kits and the Ion Professional, as well as at least one Simmons model from the 2000s/ 2010s. All of these kits, including the Nitro max, are made by the same company, which is Medeli, so in this case they put many of the same sounds and songs into them with minor changes to things like the general midi instruments used to play them. I prefer the gm sound font from the older ones, though the one that the nitro series uses isn't too bad.
Man, I gotta tell ya.... I have been watching your channel for many years now. Have commented here and there. But your drumming has come so far lately!! You are playing this set amazingly and it seems like something has just clicked with you and your interpretation.
I sure love watching your videos as with so many of us and damn you sure have a lot of gear and what's your secret to getting companies to sending you things for free, or at least I'm sure they're being sent to you for free anyway. I have a few endorsements under my belt being a professional drummer for 49 and a half years now but I don't even get my stuff for free lol.
@@jackenglish1041 With your extensive experience you should starting your own KZhead channel and build a following like this guy has. He has 344k followers, so drum companies will see it as extremely worthwhile to have him review their products to a large number of people who are all clearly fans of drums and drumming in general. If just 0.5% of his viewers order one of these kits, that’s sales of 1,720 kits which, @ $400 each, would equate to revenue of $688,000…all off the back of sending him one free kit! 🥁
4:01 anyone else start playing Run To The Hills in their head?
Instantly
Been using a standard Alesis Nitro Kit for a long time. Bought it like 8 years ago and it still works like new
Awesome , This the best E Drum demo I have ever seen by far
I just bought this kit 3 weeks ago and I love it. Hardly touch my Roland TD11KV nowadays. You alswys have to build your own user kits and do a bit of tweeking but that's half the fun. Great sounds and features. Very happy!
what a great set! thanks for the review. That hihat was impressive.
Been thinking about buying this set, definitely helpful for helping me decide. Nice video!
I just bought the kit 3 weeks ago. I wasn’t into electronic kits. I use it to practice. I play to songs using the blue tooth option. I play using headphones or through my monitor. It takes up less floor space than a 4 piece acoustic kit, it has a smaller foot print. I can pretty much play when ever I want with out disturbing others. It’s a good way to build up your drum vocabulary by experimenting with different drum patterns to see how they sound as fills. Now apply these patterns to your acoustic kit when playing. Keep on drumming.
just got this kit. I love it!
Great playin man! I alway loved Alesis! Its good to see they are keepin with it on another good kit! I played a couple similar to that. I really like how you can mute the cymbal and the sensitivity of the hi hat as well! Definitely huge selling points at that price!
As someone with the Alesis strike pro.. their kits are really sturdy and feel surprisingly natural for an "e-kit"
Thank you for song all of us your proficiency behind a set of drums. You are amazing!!!❤️🙏🎄🎅👏✌️❤️
I’ve got the alesis nitro mesh kit, thing is a beast for a budget kit and has amazing results recording thru midi with xln audio’s addictive drums. Gives a real kit sound without buying an acoustic kit/ all the mic gear to record!
Im so excited because this drum set is coming to my house in 6 days!!
Dude! You are awesome! Sidenote, I managed to catch the subscription to Drumeo! Thanks!
Dang I just tried it too and said code is invalid so I came back to see who got it 😅
slick work my friend, congrats!
Cymbal work was clean my friend. 🥁 🤘
you have always had some darn respectable chops dude!
I have the Command X model. 600 programed sounds, chrome rack, red trim, and 600 preprogrammed sounds! I added an extention kit so it's more fun. Thanks for the info. I've been thinking of adding an additional kit to make it bigger.
I ordered mine off Sweetwater today! Just gotta wait for em to be back in stock to ship to me. Cant wait
That snare sound you mentioned remind me of that song "she drives me crazy (ooh, ooh) like noone else (ooh, ooh) she drives me crazy and I can't help myself". I'm 34 btw.
Bruh. You were killing it on song 49. That sounded awesome.
I’ve played drums for over thirty years. A few months ago, I went to visit my best friend and long time bass player. He was showing me some e-kits on his computer and asked me if I liked any of them. Told him I didn’t know how good they’d be at such a low price point. He said, I’ll get one for you that we can keep at my house so we can jam when you visit. After a little research, I narrowed it down to a Simmons and this Alexis. Got it back to his house and set it up (which was a pain). Once it was set up and plugged into a bass cab, we jammed and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was relative to the price. Triggers were decent enough to get a buzz roll going. Also, it was on sale for $350 USD, but it was red and black. Aesthetics aside, it serves our purpose well and I’d recommend it to anyone interested in learning basic coordination drumming techniques.
Dude you’re nuts! Nice playing!
For $400 bucks it does/did way more than my Pearl DRX-1 I bought back in ‘86. You’ve come a long way baby.
Fer sure! Let's hope 40 years made a difference.
I CANT ANYMORE! I have the same brand e-kit and it has some of the same hi-hat, ride, and crash symbol sounds, just scrambled up! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! YOU’RE MY MOTIVATION!
watching an the part about upside down allen head screws... flip the t bracket over and the screws will be on top. Great unboxing!!
Never thought I'd hear David play Iron Maiden!
6:12 Strange Love snare sound from Depeche Mode
HAPPY NEW YEAR RDAVIDR
I subscribed because of the peel.. lol I have this kit in the "Special Edition" which is just red, but I wanted to point out in case others are here and own it that the Hi-Hat actually has a "Heel Splash" trigger as well. So you can do close, half close, full open and heel splash.
If you love 1980s video game sounds, this kit is for you! You sure it's not New Old Stock from the 80s? I can see why it's $400.
IT HAS BLUETOOTH. That also doesn't sound like an 80s VGM.
@@chobies5383you ever tried to buy a Bluetooth module? They can put them in there for pennies.
Been thinking about getting one of these as my first anything kit! Looking to start playing drums (my first love) after all these years!
I practice my bossa nova skills whenever my guitarist is tuning 😊
the best peel so far!
Sweetwater had a expanded version of this kit that came with a double bass drum pedal and I'm quite happy with it
Awesome review !!!
david seems to love the ride bell a lot very wholesome experience but needs more ride bells
@Drum Workshop should send you one other their new E kit. Good video David
That plastic film tear off was so funny!!!🤣🤣
awesome for the beginner as well
you know you can tighten the heads for a snappy stick return. Love mine.
I think I'm going to buy this kit for several reasons🗽♥️
straight up that kit 31 snare is so nostalgic
that little section of you playing kit #3 was SICK. FAT TOMS.
10" dual zone snare... i'm jealous... I was curious about the difference in the Nitro Mesh and the Nitro Max... That looks to be quite the upgrade. As other chats mentioned, you should give the Strike Pro a try. (GC sometimes has / had them out to demo.)
i swear you just did the entire drum opening scene from some kind of wonderful... am i imagining things?
I need one of these kits SO BAD! Ive been teaching my 8yr old Grandson & my new neighbors are being difficult lol.
was just showing this kit to my mom last night out of the sweetwater catalogue, she wants to learn drums
The Simmons Titan 50 is the same features for the same price, but the sounds are way better and it has a better kick drum pad, it feels and triggers better and it actually fits double bass pedals. It's on guitar center's website and if a store is near you I would recommend it instead of this kit.
@@theblackknight870 oh sick, thanks
@@theblackknight870are you sponsored by them
Oh, HELL yeah, Run To The Hills intro!
three arm trick was uber nice
Sounds great
I like that he played Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden one of my all time favourite songs
I clicked subscribe because of how satisfying this was to watch! (The second time)
I know this review is about the kit, but at 4':42" that groove is simply a beast. (- I'm no drummer I'm just following you for a while now.) Coolio, really. 👌
I got the alesis turbo, which was the model priced under the nitro. Idk if they still make it but for a hundred dollars more than what my kit cost this kit has so many features i wished mine had. Well worth the extra hundred it would seem
the nitro mesh is one of the best I've used so will most likely upgrade to a new Alesis
That familiar snare around minute 6 reminds me of Fine Young Cannibals!
I think the worst issue with e-drums is that they have hundreds of sound but very few are good, a lot of them sound a bit fake, i don’t know why. You have to modify the tune and the reverb to make them sound better
Tends to happen with cheap kits. If you play a high-end Roland kit, that's another story
Agreed. Maybe these companies should focus on making sound banks that aren't supposed to sound real. Figuring out what kinds of samples are most popular and making those the selling point/primary presets.
I've got a TD11KV and this kit sounds better. The roland sounds tired and dated, and with almost every kit I've ever owned you have to build your own user kits. It's amazing what you can achieve with pitch, EQ and reverb.
Yeah, part of being a musician is setting up and tuning your instrument and effects. Not sure why you’d expect ANY instrument to come out of the box set to your personal preferences and ready to play. Guitars, bass, saxophone, harmonica, piano…I can’t think of any instrument that doesn’t need the musician to set it up.
@@Feercholain My Roland TD11KV needed tons of setting up and it still sounds trash. There's not one decent dry set of toms. It sounds just like an acoustic set. Yugh. This Nitro Max sounds MUCH better.
The low quality sounds are baffling to me because the Alesis Nitro I have has the best sounds I've heard from any reasonably priced electronic kit! I've dialed in a kit that sounds as good as it's going to get without a DAW, so what happened here?
I don't think there's an excuse for any e-kit having bad sounds nowadays considering how accessible and inexpensive recording has become in the last decade. You think they'd Atleast cycle a few variations of the same-velocity hit so that it doesn't sound like it's triggering. Idk that's just my opinion, I can make more realistic sounding drums using Ableton and my fingers 💯
Dave just can't get the peel down 😂 awesome video man
I would like to try this one for one of my speedruns!!
Alesis just can’t get decent sounds. A bunch just sounds artificial. You should try the mimic pro. Game changer. Been using it since it came out. I still don’t think there’s any module on the market that sounds anywhere near as good as the pearl mimic pro. I would love to see you review that.
any daw would solve that. :)
@@regalasongs2256 yeah but I don’t use any daw etc as the sounds onboard are just amazing. I’m a less is more guy. One less piece of equipment or software getting in the way is a plus for me. lol. Of course there’s a huge price differential between something like this kit that he is sampling in the video versus Pearl mimic Pro so it’s probably geared towards two very different audiences anyway.
This is a silly comparison. He’s showcasing a $400 budget set and you’re telling him to try a $2400 module.
@@dylanconrad6930 that’s what I mentioned. Two diff price points and audiences. That said. Calling it a beast of a module just doesn’t seem accurate at all.
@@dylanconrad6930 My Alesis Strike Pro SE sounds Great....simply grab the best kit closest to your preference, & mix out instruments throughout the variety, tweak the settings & save. I do all of my demo recording for Original material using it......& now could'nt picture living without it !
Hey! I just so happened to have that kit!
Man I just got 200 dollar e-kit and I can't wait to play it.
The Simmons Titan 50 is the same features for the same price, but the sounds are way better and it has a better kick drum pad, it feels and triggers better and it actually fits double bass pedals.
"sounds really familiar" She drives me crazzyyy oooh ooooohh
0:02 Hahaha That table
Dunno how practicable it would be, but would be interesting to see if you could augment an acoustic kit with some of the e-kit pads for effects, etc.
It’s funny on the cheaper turbo mesh kit. It comes with a drum key to put the rack together.
Definitely sounds like an e-kit.
Looked kinda wobbly, and I noticed you eventually had to sandbag the kick tower. I do like that it's expandable at least. Great playing (almost overshadows the actual kit!)
yeah, the kick was flying away even with the spikes maxed out
@@rdavidr I have the Nitro Mesh, and the kick tower looks the same on the Max. The tower in my kit tends to lift up at the back (the end with the spikes) when I clamp a non-Alesis pedal to it (can't remember if it happened with the Alesis pedal, too) so that the spikes don't really engage the rug. A gallon jug of water (in the round jugs that commercial cleaning solutions, windshield washer fluid, etc. come in, not the square-ish milk jub) nestles right between the vertical braces on the tower while sitting on the crosspiece that holds the spikes and holds it down well enough.
@4:05 Maiden's "Run To The Hills" comes to mind...lol
That’s pretty amazing for $400. Playing a full-size Ludwig kit in my parents’ basement while listening to Rush at full volume over speakers while vainly attempting to be the next Neil Peart…well, I’m sure my parents would have gleefully invested in something like this, if it had existed in 1981.
I believe Neil himself said "The bad things about drums are: NO ONE wants to hear you practice."
My Alesis DM10 is a drum key for everything :)
Love your channel ...😊
Run to the Hills .... Nice!
The trigger with the choak strip is supposed to be on the crash and not the ride, even though the module supports it there.
For $400 it's pretty nice. Good detailed review. Only compllaint is I would have liked a mention of how the heads feel; mainly are they lively enough to do your pad practice on?
Super sensitive, just like my roland. Great pads.
Hey Dave, cool set! Kit 10 reminds me of your Impact drum kit! Have you already re-wrapped it? Would be interesting to see! Rock on bro! Greetings! 🤠👍
I'm Puting mine together on monday
That snare at 6:08 is SUPER familiar. I think its a sound that was used on some 80's tunes that are famous. The first thing i thought of is Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy, but after listening to it, that snare is way deeper....but with a very similar attack. Itll come to me later, probably. Anyway, this seems like a great low priced e-kit. The tech has gotten cheaper and cheaper. Oh, and they started innovating again so i cant wait to see how good e-kits get. DW is making SUPER high end e-kits with acoustic shells that you can use as normal drums. The tech in them is amazing. They cut the signal delay to virtually nothing, and have pressure sensors & like 5 zones a drum. Oh, and they are WIRELESS. I cant wait to see what else they come up with... As places like DW improve the tech, e-kits will get better and better, and cheaper and cheaper. Great stuff.
Is it herb Alpert - keep your eyes on me? Produced by jam and Lewis
sounds like in a big country - big country kinda.
I heard fyc too
Alesis DM7X (yes....the precursor to the Nitro) user here. Man those sounds bring back memories - not for the right reasons... Man I cannot wait to move onto something better. For the last few months I've preferred practicing with the module off :/
After I watched you other electric drum kit, the songs in this kit are better.
That's a pretty sweet kit for 400 dollars
You need to get the pearl president searies drums
You should get your hands on an Alesis Strike Pro SE (its the kit I have), such an upgrade over their budget kits
Or get a Roland TD27 that has an infinitely more sturdy rack and pads, significantly smaller footprint, digital hats ride and snare that pick up the smallest of dynamics, all for £700 more 🤷♂️ I work at Andertons and we had to remove our display Strike Pro SE cos it kept falling apart, moving and cos it took up far too much space. I’d even argue that the TD17 is better than the Strike Pro…
Hi man i just want to tell you that I love your videos and can you please make a video about how to convert a double pedal too a left pedal ( specifically mapex) please 🙏🏼 ❤
Man i'd love to buy some kits like this at that price, sadly in my country elegtronic drums like this cost at least 600 dollars, we dont even have some kits like donner's, hopefully some day we'll have some at a lower price
4:00 Rdavidr is a Maiden fan, it's canon. Cry about it.
I like drum
Who snares
@@paradiddle5150sanre
The sounds are nice and beefy.
My local Guitar Center hasa few of these on sale for $299 and I am really tempted....
Youre just having way too much fun . Stay Young my friend . 😂
Will use it at church