Millenium MPS-850 08" Mesh Head Kick Pad Reviews

Good quality replacement

This kick drum pad replaced my very old Roland TD3 rubber pad, which was worn out. The quality is great and the pad is bigger than expected, which is a bonus. One issue is that the centre of the pad is higher so the balance of my kick pedal beaters needed some realignment. All sorted though. Very pleased.

Excellent budget pad for bass drum.

Excellent budget pad for bass drum. I use a heavy and powerful Tama Iron cobra pedal for playing and even with it it is relatively silent. But unfortunately the pad moves with my playing when I have to play fast and powerful. I recommend it to those who do not have the opportunity to buy a more expensive pad.

Great replacement/upgrade!

Sturdy and solid, with good sensitivity!

absolutely amazing for price

good with double bass and it grips to the ground really well

Big enough for double pedals

Bought it cause older one couldn't support double pedals. This one has no difficulty doing that. No ghost/faulty triggering. The sensor picks up all hits around 200 BPM. It does move around if you don't put a solid support behind it. I live in an apartment and my neighbors haven't complained once. All in all, a great product and value for money!!

Excellent pad for double pedal

Using this pad with Alesis drum and double pedal. Works great!

Silent

Purchased to replace Roland kick pad kd9. Compared to Roland it is less noisy. No compatibility problems found with module td11k

Tried two, couldn’t get it to work with Nord Drum 3P

The pad feels nice to kick, but it doesn’t generate enough of an electrical impulse to get it to work reliably, let alone to get multiple velocity levels working.

Good pad , But

Didnt work well out of the box, but after experimenting with damping of Piezo trigger it works for me.. Maybe I am just used to kick the kick drum too hard....Pad is stable and takes the beating, so ..recommended

Value for the price

I've bought it as an upgrade for Alesis Nitro Mesh, so I could use it with a double-pedal setup.

In general, it works great and as long as you use plastic/rubber beater - it looks and works better than the one from Alesis. A year later - only minor evidence of wear and tear.

Not bad

As others have mentioned, you're going to want to mod this to increases sensitivity. I did this by attaching an adhesive furniture pad to the foam square behind the membrane. Maybe this made it a bit too sensitive, but it's workable.

Disassembly was easy. This is a vast improvement over the standard tower that came with the Alesis Nitro Mesh drum kit.

Bought this for a Roland td4

I got this to be able to play double bass cos my Roland td4 kick pad was to small,

Worked straight out the box I can play doubles alot easyer now with the mesh head and not a rubber pad,

Highly recommended to buy this!

affordable but poor quality

this sounds just ok. Not great not very bad. The main problem is durability. I had to replace this now three times.

Quite playable

I bought this Millenium MPS-850 pad for my Roland TD-1DMK drum kit.

The trigger worked well when the beater was set to the very bottom of the net. In order to get feedback from the center of the drum, like other buyer reviewers, I pasted a felt circle on the foam of the trigger, which improved the responsiveness. The mesh is thin, single (in comparison with Roland - there is double). For the experiment, I set a regular Roland pad (PDX-8) as the kick drum - and it was much more sensitive than this MPS-850 pad (very weak hits are not always caught). In the future, I will try to move the trigger itself to the center of the drum, I wonder if this will improve the sensitivity by 100%. In principle, the product pleased me, this pad is more interesting than the small rubber pad from Roland TD DMK-1.

Good, silent, not compatible with Alesis Turbo mesh at all

I thought it was compatible with my Alesis Turbo Mesh, but the trigger control unit does not recognize the pad. By replacing the entrance with the floor tom it works. Using with the Mac and ESX24 sampler and assign a kick wave to the floor tom midi signal is perfect.

I confirm the problem of the sensor too low in relation to the skin. Instead of putting extra foam rubber I preferred to raise the sensor by replacing the 4 mounting screws of 16mm with others of 30mm. To raise it I used rubber blocks, and by lifting it 8mm it adheres perfectly to the skin.

Now there is only the problem that the floor tom with the cable dedicated to the previous kick has a low sensitivity, and it would be necessary to change the control unit. The pad with the pedal is real, quite unlike the original Alesis pad. The hi-hat pedal should also be changed...

Good value, but not out of the box

I rarely review products online, but i have to help out fellow drummers looking to purchase this kick pad.

I bought it as a replacement for an older Millenium kick pad which died on me. It took more than a month to arrive, but that was somewhat indicated when i made the purchase. I think it was 2 weeks later than the original estimation. No big deal, it was covid + holiday season.

My issue with the kick pad is the same one that the Russian gentleman a few reviews below experienced. Indeed, hits do not register well, even with adjusting sensitivity and dynamic on my drum module. Tightening the mesh did not help, and i like it medium tight anyway. It was quite obvious that there is not enough contact surface for the hits to transfer well to the pickup. So i thought i'd try what my fellow reviewer did, and started looking for super glue, kitchen sponge and scissors. But i found something even better in by cupboard - self adhesive furniture protective pads, the ones you would put under your sofa or dining room chairs. They were about the same size, so i stacked a few together to give it an additional cm of height, and when i put the mesh back on, it was neatly pressing on it. The kick pad came alive, but i still had to readjust dynamic and sensitivity to my playing style.

Amazing

I'm more than happy with this kick pad, its quiet, it picks up double bass beautifully, you can change the head if it breaks, I have an alesis nitro mesh and it's kick pad was too small and too loud, the difference between the two kick Pads is day and night

100% recommend

great mesh head kick pad

I play electronic drums and have mesh heads for snare and toms. Until trying this mesh head kick pad I always played using normal 'rubber' kick pads. I wanted to try a mesh head kick pad and this pad is the best way to go since it's price is very attractive. I'm really not sure that a Roland mesh head kick pad will give you anything extra. This kick pad is really well built and works perfectly out of the box. Response is great, triggering is without any faults. Bounce from it is very nice, you kind of get the feel of a real kick drum. There is a big difference when compared to the 'rubber' kick pads. I recommend using a beater with a soft head since felt or plastic\rubber can damage the mesh. I use two of these kick pads each with a single pedal. I absolutely recommend this pad if you want to get the taste of a mesh head kick pad for an excellent price.

I prefer acoustic drums, but I bought it for Roland TD-1DMK, which I use for practising at home. This make the set quieter and bring much more feeling for the foot pedal. Work well with felt beater. Recomend.

cheap product but.......

pros: cheap pedal , large diameter

cons: it is not suitable for double pedal for 2 reasons

1. i had to open the pedal and add 4 spacers at the base of the sensor because the high of the sensor was not at the same level of the kick sponge and the whole system did not read the pedals especially at high speeds.

2. it doesn't have volume level knob and the volume level (lower) is not the same with the other pads . So It needs a kind of preamplifier before the possessor in order to cooperate with the other pads . The drums I have is a Rolland Express 4 After these modifications the pad is ok for playing.