Best Roland KD-10 Kick Pad Alternatives

Based on 6 reviews

I bought this product a few months ago to use with my SPD-30. I find it very portable & very easy to use due to its size. One very big plus with this unit is it doesn't creep when hit due to the beater angle And very good quality velcro attached to the bottom of it when used on carpet. I have a Roland KD-80 kick pad also but find that will creep unless secured with string to my drum seat. If I usethe FD-7 on a wooden floor I mount the unit on a small car carpet which rests against the SPD-30 Stand. Playability of this unit is excellent, noise emmision (beater to pad) very good & I find quality of this unit very good .All things considered an excellent product & very good value for money.

Based on 4 reviews

Roland took their sweet time, but they have finally come up with a solution for quiet practicing at home. The KT-9 is truly amazing, the loudest part of my e-drumkit has just become the quietest. The absence of a beater and pad makes all the difference and the hinged mechanism Roland engineered works very nice. The build quality is superb, thick steel plates with an aluminium footboard. On carpeting there is no pedal creep at all! The only problem I have with this pedal is the lack of an input so you can daisy-chain two pedals. Now you will need a second input with a double bass setup. You could try a cable splitter on a piezo/piezo input if you're module supports it.

Based on 13 reviews

I bought the pedal to use it with my nord drum 3p in an apartment. The pedal is pretty silent, but only if you put something underneath to decouple it from the floor. The rubber feet on the pedal don't help with that, so I put it on a rubber mat with felt furniture feet under the actual feet of the pedal. It does the trick and at the moment it is more silent than the sticks hitting the pads of the nord drum. The response is also really good, it feels in my opinion like a good regular drum pedal, although I'm not really an experienced drummer. The adjustments on it are also a really nice feature. I recommend the pedal for anyone who struggles with drumming in an apartment, but keep in mind you can't place it directly on the floor if you want it to be silent because you have to decouple...

Based on 23 reviews

I used this pedal to upgrade my Roland TD-1KV kit. I didn't want to spend so much money on the Roland kick drum (half the price of the original kit itself), but wanted to have a proper bass pedal feel to my kit and so gave this a try. For the price, you really can't do better. The bounce back off the skin is so much more like a real drum skin and so I can now play much faster and am able to add both a funk/ swing feel to my playing as well as a heavier feel to metal etc. I didn't want to review it until I had worn it in, so waited, and having beaten it to death for the last few weeks, it really does have good build quality for the price. The acoustic sound is quiet, (not that I care at all about that, but some might), but the thing that I was most shocked by was how sturdy it is. It...

Based on 25 reviews

-Much Bigger than expected > sizes HxWxD 47x26x26cm. I was expecting a smaller form pedal to match my existing kit (a compact DDRUM) but I guess it's only a visual matter. -Don't use light color felt pad beater > rather use plastic/wood or (dark) rubber instead. I started using it with my old felt beater which immediately left some lint on the pad surface (which I wasn't able to remove.) Next day I bought a plastic beater. -No instructions included (not really needed but...at least technical parameters would be a nice addition.) -Very stable, heavy, metal, with anti-slip velcro straps and clamps for maximum stability. -Works also with older drum modules (tried with Simmons.) -Excellent also as practice pad.

Based on 6 reviews

For what this product is, it's very well accomplished, a simple design that does what's required effectively and efficiently. I took a chance on these to replace the need for a new kick drum and I was pleasantly surprised how well the triggers hold up and stay put under heavy performance. Thus far I haven't had a need to make any adjustments which exceeds my electronic kick that at times I had to chase across the floor. The simplicity of design also gives them room for interpretation depending on your specific application. For instance, they can easily be reworked to fit my Trick pedals that have an offset pull and I can probably drill them down if I really wanted to. I also have the freedom to place my pedals anywhere I want since my double kicks are now independent. These triggers...

Based on 5 reviews

First things first, the trigger works flawlessly and its easy to use, to connect it and to install it. I bought it to be used with a Yamaha a DD-65. And also to use it with other MIDI Drums that may come to my studio at some point in the future. It's made of nice metal and good rubber, though I think the rubber could have been a little less crumbly, its not that is cheap and will crumble easily though. it's just that if your pedal got a white maze like mine it will get black instantly in the part that touches the rubber, not that important really, just trying to be detailed here. Also you must be aware that it doesn't have any foots, nor pads under it, its meant to be over a carpet and because of it if you use it directly over the floor it may be way to noisy and end up annoying some...