Yamaha DD-55

absolute crap. i tried useing this for a small club gig. crap. bass pedal inconsistent. snare pad is just as bad. must have pin point accuracy for snare. it says "sampled drum" on it. i dont know where they got the samples from, but they all sound like electric drums to me. the main problem is the playability. the pedals dont work as good as they would need to. you cant go 30 seconds without a failure of some kind. i've been a pro musician for 20 years. i've had the yamaha dd5, dd11, this dd55, and another rap oriented dd that i think was a dd15. this, like all of the other yamaha dd's that i've purchased; is now a toy for my child. ...  Read the complete review

Have a child who wants a drum kit? Thanks to technology there have always been several styles of drum kits available, from basic sets to gig sets which consist only of skins on stands. There has always been however digital drum pads in the form of electronically produced companies such as Casio, Korg and Yamaha. ** This is a long review ** Short of extending another room, or possibly attic space, a drum kit takes up a lot of space and causes problems particularly when it's being transported outside to live venues - if it is ever to be used for that purpose. Yamaha however appear to have the answer for space limits in a home as well as enabling beginner ...  Read the complete review

It's been a while since I've written a review, and the DD55 is one such surprising product worthy of a praising one as it's one that I would like to discuss with many people, without boring the uninterested. Thus I'm sparked to write. Digital percussion (or electronic drum kits, to be less snobby) has existed in many forms in the last few decades, most notably in late disco and early eighties pop which didn't do much for the longevity of it. The sounds were often rather laughably camp and unresponsive compared to their age-old acoustic counterparts. They were fancy executive toys (which many still are) relegated to attics. Nothing ...  Read the complete review