A trick I use to pack down my Roland kit for travel that helps keep my gear safe and protected is: For my pdx-6,pdx-8,pdx100,pd-80,pd85 pads, I take 2 drum trigger pads of same type and size then put them together mesh head facing mesh head. Then take an L-rod mount bar,match up the mounting hole and put it through both mounting holes on trigger pads. You tighten down the mounting screws done ✅ now the mesh heads are protected and the hard plastic bottom of trigger pads face outward and you have nice handle/grip to pick up your pair of pads.
For larger venues, I use a full size e-kit with a 4'x4', tennis ball floating stage. With all the rear seats folded away. I simply slide the platform into the back of my Grand Voyager (Town an Country to u). Then I fold the kit including the legs. Then lift it strait on the flat stage. I use a small crate for my Roland module wrapped in a towel placed into trolley case, I use a large grey fold up crate, for my kick pad an pedals, an any extras. I also carry a small grocery bag for any leads, power plus an of course, my clip-on fan. Bliss! Works for me...
I haven't transported my kit other than from one room to the other but I think this shows what one has to take into consideration when transporting the e-kit!! Great info video!!
MAN , i gotta say well done for taking all the effort to show people how to load all of that stuff . i admire your dedication . i honestly subscribed to your channel after seeing this video . respect my friend . and ive learned some good tips from you .
Justin if im correct,you had a doubt about if the td 50 and the bass drum if it comes with a shell Here is a link where they explain that. Skip to 2:20 Hope it helps Justin
Oh yeah back in my TD50 Announcement reaction video I was very confused about that. The roland website said one thing, and the reps said something else. I'm glad they sell a package with the shell and trigger, but honestly it SHOULD have been included in the regular TD50KV. That drumset is already too expensive, let along spending extra cash to get the "ultimate edition" haha rant over, thanks for the info.
Man that looks like a lot of work. I use a gym bag with wheels for everything but the bass trigger and the folded rack, 2 trips to the jeep, 15 to 20 minutes from being setup on stage to on the road.
Very helpful. I'm thinking about dropping my acoustic set coz it's such a pain to load/unload for gigs. My thought was Edrums would be easier/quicker to set up and strip down. Now i'm not so sure! What I need is inflatable drums.
just last night I fit my mds9, td9, 2x pd120, 3x pd105, vh11 with stand, double bass pedal, kd8, 4 other cymbals, all accessories and a powered speaker into my Corolla with room for a car seat and seats for 2 passengers. it only took about half an hour to load up. this is one of the biggest pluses of e drums. I never could have done this, time or space, with my old a kit
Hey Justin, i have the same rack as you do and also drive a sedan. If you fold in the "arms" of the rack completely you can just put it standing straight op in front of your back seat. Seems a lot easier than the "C shape" method you are using. Just memory clamp the hell out of all the movable parts and pad mounts.
On a TD-30/50kv or anything with a chrome rack, you must take all pads off, or it’s too heavy and big to move. I fit all my drum pads in a DoorDash bag, and my cymbal pads in a normal cymbal bag with a bath towel sandwiched between them to protect the paint. One thing I like to do is check the head tension with a Drum Dial while I have the pads off and on a level surface.
I use theTD25 and I made cases out of plastic tubs from Home depot and used memory foam to insulate everything..works fine
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First I thought: Nobody thinks like me and will try to fit a e-drum set inside a car Then I thought "This guy from this channel will never have a video showing how to fit an e-drum inside a car just the way I wanted" And there he is.
Thanks for your efforts and respect for your audience. A mundane topic, but one which the rest of the band will need to put up with as much as you! Unless you've mentioned it in another presentation, maybe colour code or number (or both) those toms. Like mine, some kits have identical items which if you've tensioned the heads to suit a hi, med, low, snare "feel" then re-installing them will need equal care. Very much a case of the 5 p's pays dividends at the gig and later when you're trying to get home in post performance sweaty heap (which may be you the drummer, or the wagon you're in!).
Garage sales and old suitcases are your friend. The more plugs and wires you can leave plugged in the the faster you can set up and tear down, but the more vulnerable you are to wrecking something. Secure all the cables you can.
I'm sorry but No way I will carrying my drum set like that. - I remove piece by piece, cables, toms, cymbals, sound module, put piece by piece separately inside a nice soft bag, give a quick clean, disassembled the bass drum pedal and put in the original carrying case and put everything in two hard cases, oh yes I know takes time but I love to do that
The module on the e-drum at 8:48 looks a lot like the module on my Medeli DD518DX kit. Awesome video as usual. I have a minivan and I can fit my entire kit in it without any problems. It's just a pain to bring it down from my music room. And the rack on my kit is really freaking heavy.
65 Drums Lower quality compared to Roland and Yamaha modules, that's true. But my kit has been serving me well for almost a year of constant use and abuse. So far, it hasn't given me any problems. So I'm quite satisfied.
Thanks Mike I appreciate that! haha in my intro, I always say "65 Drums is THE PLACE to learn more about Edrums." So I gotta at least try to deliver on that.
Exactly the video I've been looking for. Play acoustic drums, and was really wondering if electronic drums would be any easier for a real quick travel setup or not. Looks like it's basically the same.
@@65Drums dude you have no idea, you were one of the reasons that I chose to switch from alesis to yamaha, and I never looked back ! I've watch many of your videos man and I found all of them to be helpful. And for a great and knowledgeable drummer such as yourself I really like this sense of modesty about you. Keep it up dude ! Looking forward to see more of your vids
Thanks for the video. One thing I don't understand is why you don't fold the right and left parts of the stand in before you load it in the car? IT seems it would be much easier to get in. Maybe even leave the seats up and put it in the back seat behind the front seats.
+Shane Frank well if it was that easy I would have do that ;) camera angles make that car look bigger than it is I guess. The way I loaded it was the only way I could
Ok, thanks. I am about to purchase a used TD-15k about an hour away from where I live and I was hoping it would fit in my G35 Coupe...after seeing your video I am not hopeful that it is possible. Thanks for the response.
Entertaining vid. Thanks. Though I'm sure the OCD drummers will be protesting on your door! haha Anyway, I pack my e-drums in suitcases. Two small ones plus the rack in total. Easy fit even in a small car (no PA) :) Of course with padding inside. Hope this helps.
Justin I think last you tried to find A Alesis Nitro kit to play? and just so you know I have one and it folds up nicely just like your first demo of packing up your kit for transportation and as you may have discovered there's only a handful of usable pre loaded kits on the nitro for playing the rest you have to customize the setting to get what you need
Great Vid as usual! However I didn't hear you mention anything much about a sound system. I'm assuming you plug into a monitor or your bands PA or the venue's PA? I heard in your 'amp vs PAs' vid you have a substantial speaker setup do you use that at gigs very often and how much effort is that to transport/setup.
I really hope that you can give us your opinion on Millenium stuff ; i don t know if i have to buy a Millenium drum set with mesh pads for around 500€ or the Forge kit from Alesis/dm 10 used
Good video! It's always helpful to see how other drummers deal with certain situations. Insight into transporting you equipment is no exception, especially e-drums, and this was helpful. Unlike my acoustic drums, I've been reluctant to take my e-kit on a gig for fear of damaging or getting my shit stolen. Thanks!
Yeah, good point. I had just spent five grand on my new Rolands so I was a bit paranoid, as you would understand. Now, I'm more concerned with lugging this stuff around and getting a better sound in smaller venues than worry about having my e-kit stolen. Besides, at this point I've taken precautions and I have insurance.One last thing, when transporting your rack, why don't you use the memory locks? That just occurred to me when taking my rack. It folds, so having used the memory locks would of course make it easier to load and setup.
Well you're right about the memory locks, that might speed up the setups. I kinda forgot about them. I think I thought they were anyoying once upon a time, so I took them off.
LOL, That's exactly what I went thru. I think because years back I wasn't gigging and I didn't have any use for them. At that time I was to busy tweaking my set and took them off for the same reasons you did, annoying and in the way. Then I saw Glen Sobel's rack setup and he had almost a hundred memory locks. I said to myself; what the heck am I doing? Been using them since and not only do they save time, but my rack is exactly the same way each time with no tweaking required, thank God!
haha, well it took awhile, but people seem to like the video so I think it was worth it :) I think it took around an hour or two to shoot, plus I had to do the voice over. btw the editing ALWAYS takes longer than shooting, even this video. I'll spend hours of editing just to make a 7 minute video
I don't always use one, but I ALWAYS bring one. One time I played at a venue where the floor was smooth concrete. I slid around so much that I kinda decided to never leave home without a drum rug ever again
Hi, don't play a millenium drum set. They sound like a crapp and you can't edit anythink , just you have the sounds and you can change the volume of the drum you want and the panning and the tuning. The pats are robe pats. That is all I can say .
A trick I use to pack down my Roland kit for travel that helps keep my gear safe and protected is: For my pdx-6,pdx-8,pdx100,pd-80,pd85 pads, I take 2 drum trigger pads of same type and size then put them together mesh head facing mesh head. Then take an L-rod mount bar,match up the mounting hole and put it through both mounting holes on trigger pads. You tighten down the mounting screws done ✅ now the mesh heads are protected and the hard plastic bottom of trigger pads face outward and you have nice handle/grip to pick up your pair of pads.
Justin! I Always enjoy your vids, but this time, your front yard floored me! What a BEAUTIFUL place!!
Hey thanks! I live out in the middle of nowhere, lots of space :)
Cheers Justin, most useful and very much appreciated. All the best. Charles :-)
Thanks man!
For larger venues, I use a full size e-kit with a 4'x4', tennis ball floating stage.
With all the rear seats folded away.
I simply slide the platform into the back of my Grand Voyager (Town an Country to u). Then I fold the kit including the legs. Then lift it strait on the flat stage.
I use a small crate for my Roland module wrapped in a towel placed into trolley case, I use a large grey fold up crate, for my kick pad an pedals, an any extras.
I also carry a small grocery bag for any leads, power plus an of course, my clip-on fan. Bliss!
Works for me...
I haven't transported my kit other than from one room to the other but I think this shows what one has to take into consideration when transporting the e-kit!! Great info video!!
Thanks Zax! Glad you liked the video
MAN , i gotta say well done for taking all the effort to show people how to load all of that stuff . i admire your dedication . i honestly subscribed to your channel after seeing this video . respect my friend . and ive learned some good tips from you .
Hey thanks man! haha, was a bit of work to do all of that. But people like the video, so I think it was worth it :)
Justin if im correct,you had a doubt about if the td 50 and the bass drum if it comes with a shell
Here is a link where they explain that. Skip to 2:20
Hope it helps Justin
Oh yeah back in my TD50 Announcement reaction video I was very confused about that. The roland website said one thing, and the reps said something else. I'm glad they sell a package with the shell and trigger, but honestly it SHOULD have been included in the regular TD50KV. That drumset is already too expensive, let along spending extra cash to get the "ultimate edition" haha rant over, thanks for the info.
Thanks for effort you've put in this!
Man that looks like a lot of work. I use a gym bag with wheels for everything but the bass trigger and the folded rack, 2 trips to the jeep, 15 to 20 minutes from being setup on stage to on the road.
I stick most of my pads in a wheeled suitcase, partitioning with pieces of old carpet.
Solid plan
Absolutely Charles....nice😁
Very helpful. I'm thinking about dropping my acoustic set coz it's such a pain to load/unload for gigs. My thought was Edrums would be easier/quicker to set up and strip down. Now i'm not so sure! What I need is inflatable drums.
just last night I fit my mds9, td9, 2x pd120, 3x pd105, vh11 with stand, double bass pedal, kd8, 4 other cymbals, all accessories and a powered speaker into my Corolla with room for a car seat and seats for 2 passengers. it only took about half an hour to load up. this is one of the biggest pluses of e drums. I never could have done this, time or space, with my old a kit
hahah thats true, acoustic drums are huge
liked. I use goalie hockey bag $70 and use car floor mats for my hihat and kick.
Yeah that would work really well come to think of it. Thanks :)
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Bonus audio is hilarious, lol
hahahaha
Hey Justin, i have the same rack as you do and also drive a sedan. If you fold in the "arms" of the rack completely you can just put it standing straight op in front of your back seat. Seems a lot easier than the "C shape" method you are using. Just memory clamp the hell out of all the movable parts and pad mounts.
I'm not sure my car roof is high enough for that to work, but I'll give it a shot next time I travel, thanks :)
On a TD-30/50kv or anything with a chrome rack, you must take all pads off, or it’s too heavy and big to move. I fit all my drum pads in a DoorDash bag, and my cymbal pads in a normal cymbal bag with a bath towel sandwiched between them to protect the paint. One thing I like to do is check the head tension with a Drum Dial while I have the pads off and on a level surface.
I use theTD25 and I made cases out of plastic tubs from Home depot and used memory foam to insulate everything..works fine
First I thought:
Nobody thinks like me and will try to fit a e-drum set inside a car
Then I thought
"This guy from this channel will never have a video showing how to fit an e-drum inside a car just the way I wanted"
And there he is.
I break mine down even more than that if using the wife's SUV and carry the module in a well insulated backpack. Works perfect!
Thanks for your efforts and respect for your audience. A mundane topic, but one which the rest of the band will need to put up with as much as you! Unless you've mentioned it in another presentation, maybe colour code or number (or both) those toms. Like mine, some kits have identical items which if you've tensioned the heads to suit a hi, med, low, snare "feel" then re-installing them will need equal care. Very much a case of the 5 p's pays dividends at the gig and later when you're trying to get home in post performance sweaty heap (which may be you the drummer, or the wagon you're in!).
Thank you for this tips! Really want to buyy this type of E drums rather than with the tabletop drums due to the sound quality
Garage sales and old suitcases are your friend.
The more plugs and wires you can leave plugged in the the faster you can set up and tear down, but the more vulnerable you are to wrecking something. Secure all the cables you can.
I'm sorry but No way I will carrying my drum set like that. -
I remove piece by piece, cables, toms, cymbals, sound module, put piece by piece separately inside a nice soft bag,
give a quick clean, disassembled the bass drum pedal and put in the original carrying case
and put everything in two hard cases, oh yes I know takes time but I love to do that
Justin I have a millenium electric drum(mps 750) and it's amazing!!! It's sound very cool and it's really cheap.
+Krisztián Kovács nice :)
The module on the e-drum at 8:48 looks a lot like the module on my Medeli DD518DX kit. Awesome video as usual. I have a minivan and I can fit my entire kit in it without any problems. It's just a pain to bring it down from my music room. And the rack on my kit is really freaking heavy.
Medeli makes a TON of drum pads and a few drum modules for many edrum companies. They are generally lower quality :/
65 Drums Lower quality compared to Roland and Yamaha modules, that's true. But my kit has been serving me well for almost a year of constant use and abuse. So far, it hasn't given me any problems. So I'm quite satisfied.
Good to know :) thanks
At least the td17kvx isn’t as awkward as the td30 to put in a car
Haha, Justin. You definitely take care of ALL aspects regaring electronic drums and gear. ;-) Great stuff!
Thanks Mike I appreciate that! haha in my intro, I always say "65 Drums is THE PLACE to learn more about Edrums." So I gotta at least try to deliver on that.
I just meant it kind, man. Honestly, I really like what you do ;)
haha no its fine I got what you were saying ;) I enjoy your channel as well
HOLY COW HOW CAN YOU MAKE YOUR EDRUMS FIT IN THIS SO SMALL FRONTYARD
hahahahahaha
Exactly the video I've been looking for. Play acoustic drums, and was really wondering if electronic drums would be any easier for a real quick travel setup or not. Looks like it's basically the same.
my god do I feel quite stupid, I'm not sure how it didn't ever cross my mind to fold the damn rear seats :p, well thanks for enlightening me :p
Glad to help! :)
@@65Drums dude you have no idea, you were one of the reasons that I chose to switch from alesis to yamaha, and I never looked back ! I've watch many of your videos man and I found all of them to be helpful. And for a great and knowledgeable drummer such as yourself I really like this sense of modesty about you.
Keep it up dude ! Looking forward to see more of your vids
Thanks for the video. One thing I don't understand is why you don't fold the right and left parts of the stand in before you load it in the car? IT seems it would be much easier to get in. Maybe even leave the seats up and put it in the back seat behind the front seats.
+Shane Frank well if it was that easy I would have do that ;) camera angles make that car look bigger than it is I guess. The way I loaded it was the only way I could
Ok, thanks. I am about to purchase a used TD-15k about an hour away from where I live and I was hoping it would fit in my G35 Coupe...after seeing your video I am not hopeful that it is possible. Thanks for the response.
cool! thanks!
+Majd Shufani :)
Entertaining vid. Thanks. Though I'm sure the OCD drummers will be protesting on your door! haha
Anyway, I pack my e-drums in suitcases. Two small ones plus the rack in total. Easy fit even in a small car (no PA) :) Of course with padding inside. Hope this helps.
hahah, well the slightest thing will make them crazy
Justin I think last you tried to find A Alesis Nitro kit to play? and just so you know I have one and it folds up nicely just like your first demo of packing up your kit for transportation and as you may have discovered there's only a handful of usable pre loaded kits on the nitro for playing the rest you have to customize the setting to get what you need
Thanks for the info :) Still haven't found one yet lol I've tried my darndest though
Great Vid as usual! However I didn't hear you mention anything much about a sound system. I'm assuming you plug into a monitor or your bands PA or the venue's PA? I heard in your 'amp vs PAs' vid you have a substantial speaker setup do you use that at gigs very often and how much effort is that to transport/setup.
I don't travel with it much. I just use whatever is at the venue. The PA's are huge and its a pain to lug it around and set it up. I've done it.
I really hope that you can give us your opinion on Millenium stuff ; i don t know if i have to buy a Millenium drum set with mesh pads for around 500€ or the Forge kit from Alesis/dm 10 used
Well I've heard iffy things about the brand even though I haven't played one personally.
Nice video! What Hi-hat stand do you use?
It's one that came with my Sonor Force 2001
i want to watch a video with you playing electronic drums live in a concert
I'll keep that video idea in mind
Good video! It's always helpful to see how other drummers deal with certain situations. Insight into transporting you equipment is no exception, especially e-drums, and this was helpful. Unlike my acoustic drums, I've been reluctant to take my e-kit on a gig for fear of damaging or getting my shit stolen. Thanks!
Well that's always a risk, but the way I see it, just walking outside is dangerous, so I might as well use my drums while I can ;)
Yeah, good point. I had just spent five grand on my new Rolands so I was a bit paranoid, as you would understand. Now, I'm more concerned with lugging this stuff around and getting a better sound in smaller venues than worry about having my e-kit stolen. Besides, at this point I've taken precautions and I have insurance.One last thing, when transporting your rack, why don't you use the memory locks? That just occurred to me when taking my rack. It folds, so having used the memory locks would of course make it easier to load and setup.
Well you're right about the memory locks, that might speed up the setups. I kinda forgot about them. I think I thought they were anyoying once upon a time, so I took them off.
LOL, That's exactly what I went thru. I think because years back I wasn't gigging and I didn't have any use for them. At that time I was to busy tweaking my set and took them off for the same reasons you did, annoying and in the way. Then I saw Glen Sobel's rack setup and he had almost a hundred memory locks. I said to myself; what the heck am I doing? Been using them since and not only do they save time, but my rack is exactly the same way each time with no tweaking required, thank God!
great video! Justin lol it must have taken you all day or 2 days to shoot?
haha, well it took awhile, but people seem to like the video so I think it was worth it :) I think it took around an hour or two to shoot, plus I had to do the voice over. btw the editing ALWAYS takes longer than shooting, even this video. I'll spend hours of editing just to make a 7 minute video
How about for walking?
Link for the euro bag 48 pounds?
This was a good video. Now I gotta go put my spare tire back in spare well. 😐
What about my bike
Is it that important to have a drum rug?
I don't always use one, but I ALWAYS bring one. One time I played at a venue where the floor was smooth concrete. I slid around so much that I kinda decided to never leave home without a drum rug ever again
V - heh - Klees (Justin does French)
hahha
€48 = $52, rounded down :)
You probably knew that already, just thought I'd throw it up there in case anyone else was curious and didn't feel like googling :)
Thanks Keith
Hi, don't play a millenium drum set. They sound like a crapp and you can't edit anythink , just you have the sounds and you can change the volume of the drum you want and the panning and the tuning. The pats are robe pats. That is all I can say .
Hmm, sorry to hear that
65 Drums I have one mellenium and I was telling what you can do and you can't do with the drum seqt. Sorry if you feel but
Did U say the intro like 6 times
maaaaaybe. I counted like.. 3ish
Lol
I thought I was tripping out lol
The actual into only once
I think I accident hit the little like rewind 10
Secs thing on mobile crazies id you hit the screen in a certain way it automatically does it
Millenium stuff is generally poor quality. I had purchased a bunch of that when I was in Germany.
hmm, sad to hear that :/
Yamaha VS Alesis
noted