Restock Alesis Nitro Mesh Special-Edition 8-Piece Electronic Drum Set

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Prepare to aggravate your apartment neighbors!

This kit gets great reviews for the most part and I was quite disappointed to find what I actually got. Guitar Center where I purchased it did not have any floor models set up so I just bought it to give it a try, since it could be returned within 14 days, although there was a "15% restocking fee(about $57.)" The drums themselves are quite small and nothing at all like an acoustic drum kit in placement or radius so for anyone over 5' 5" this is a difficult kit to be scrunched up behind. I'm 6' 1" and can say a teenager or other beginner of smaller stature is who this would be best suited for. Onto the sounds themselves, out of about 40 different kit options most are quite cheesy and primitive in technological advancement, I'm thinking 1991 is a generous time frame for their level of real drum-mimicking sound quality. I did find a couple of electro/industrial type sounds I liked. Next, the volume through headphones is quite limited. I listen to music on my earbuds at a louder volume than this is capable of! Next, the rims of the snare and toms are so deep and protruding that they're nearly impossibly not to hit when you're working with such tiny drums. All this aside, I would have kept this kit as a practice tool in my apartment for when I can't get to the rehearsal space as often as I like if it weren't for it DISPRUPTING AND AGGRAVATING MY NEIGHBORS!?! Now keep in mind I only used it through headphones so no amplification was involved. Even so, the sheer impact of the kick drum getting the rubber kick pad apparently "shook the pictures" of the walls of a neighbor in my building not even directly under or next to me!! I got two complaints from two different neighbors in one week, saying it sounded like I was pounding on the floor. Keep in mind, they can't hear the other drums so it doesn't even sound like beats, just annoying home improvement but daily and erratic. I tried reinforcing the kick pedal, adding another layer of carpet under it - nothing helped.