DD-75 : Not a fan, but I’m sure you can make it work

5 years ago

I got this for some home practise during lockdown.

And as a simple set up, tear down unit.

I find the default sounds are so so, and the speaker pushes tom toms and hides the bass drum. For someone that on an acoustic kit pushes low end kick by kicking hard, this was the opposite of the experience I wanted.

When I plugged it into using MIDI, it was easy to make that happen, but I had some strange delay - this might not have been this product actually.

I also found the acoustic sound of the pads very loud.

I’m sure you can tweak the pad sensitivity in settings, get MIDI working, and use headphones, another speaker and get more bass drum. And i’ve seen people use this product live in cover gigs in smaller venues.

Specifically as an easy practise unit, at least for me, it didn’t quite work out.

Image Yamaha DD-75

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Yamaha
  • Released in 2017
  • Average price : $283
  • Dimensions (Wmm x Hmm x D): 602mm x 411mm x 180mm
  • Weight : 4.2kg
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