I’m 6 minutes into your pt 2 video and I’ve already learned more than I did from 45 minutes of reading the manual. A picture and Justin are worth a 1000 words. Thanks a ton!! 😃
Excellent job fast-tracking how to get around the Mimic Pro module. Thanks, Justin, for all your endless hard work reviewing and detailing so many of the e-drumming products. You have advanced the art exponentially and we all owe you a boatload of gratitude! Marshall - Extreme Drums
this thing is waaayy better than any alesis or roland modules. customizable beyond belief! This is the module to get for your e-kit if acoustic drums is not an option. you scarifice a lot playing on e-kits instead of acoustic, but this module makes up for it, or almost. module manufacturers finally starting to get there, what drummers looking for
I’ve binge-watched all your videos now I know what I want to buy! (Thanks Justin!) These videos are an awesome encyclopedia too for any future project or purchase or just curiosity. I’ve sent my nephew a bunch when he was asking me about edrums.
Absolutely brilliant video Justin. Love the quick talking and absence of flab so common in other videos. Do you have any tips on getting the ATV snare wood attachment cross stick working properly?
14:21 question about assign to pad. My triggera china cymbal is just one piezo sensor but ever time I change kits it switches to making a bow sound instead of making a crash/china sound For the past 4 years of owning this module I literally have just stuck with masters kit 1 because of this
Just got my Mimic and about to set it up...this has been an amazing intro. Quick question: depending on gigs, i may be using roland v-kit (without TD-20x!) or hybrid kit with 2box/stealth triggers. Is there a way to easily set up 2 sets of input parameters? Thanks again- will be subscribing!
Hey Justin , thank you for all you unbiased information. You are doing a great job and comparing pros and cons for different topics . I wanted to ask your opinion, I am a worship leader at my church and we are looking to eventually get a new drum set up. We are using the Roland td10 I think. I I believe it’s a little out dated and some of the triggers are messed up. We are running it through a Yamaha head. My sound guy wants to have multiple outputs for each drum so when I was considering the Roland td25kv which I thought was the best bang for the buck, I realized it only had stereo out. So then I priced how much it would be if we got the Roland td25kv and sold the head and got the pearl mimic . I heard several samples of the mimic and i think it sounds amazing. So this option would cost about 3500 after selling the Roland head and purchasing the mimic. I can also find a set to play at many guitar centers without the pearl head though. The other option would be to convert our acoustic drum set to a hybrid . It’s not a nice drum set , but with the 80-90 dollar triggers you mentioned in a video , and some nice symbols which I think would run around 1000 and the pearl mimic head piece I’m thinking the cost would be almost the same either was. The look and feel of the acoustic drum set with the Roland meshed heads would be awesome , but do the triggers respond the same as a full electric kit. Would you know how the sound would compare? Any ideas or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. God bless. Chais
don't have have a mimic and i'll never get one but watching to support! that's a lot of work for a module very few people probably have. i wonder what the sales numbers are. is that something drum companies release?
Hi Justin! Awesome video! Again!! It is not clear to me to use the extra inputs on page 2 of the “edit kit” section. I would like to add more triggers/pads. Can you help me on this?
hello I'm looking for how can I muffle the plastics so that they do not resonate much through which function of pearl mimic proo ,, to put felt to muffle thank you
Hello Justin! Big fan of your videos, once I have a doubt on something I check them out and I always find an answer. Unfortunately this is not the case, so I have a question for you: do this module support the Roland RT30 triggers? I don't see them listed in the trigger list you open on the PMP. Thank you so much!
Yes this module works with almost anything, there's probably no trigger preset made for the RT30 yet, but that just means you'll have to manual set it up yourself in the settings. It'll work
Justin, been watching your videos for a long time. As a person who dabbles in drums.. I typically use a TR8s drum machine but I am looking for a sample multipad to be able to work out fills and other musical ideas on the fly as the TR8s is playing the basic beat. Could you do a video that compares the various sample pad's out there and make a recommendation? It wont be used live, just for songwriting purposes. I need at least 6 decent size pads but more is welcome and budget is < $600. I'm not opposed to used gear. Just something I can work out ideas on with great sample playback capability. Thx!
Hey Justin, can you comment on the positional sensing and interval control that Roland has. I get the impression it is missing on the Mimic? Is that a big problem in your opinion in terms of machine gunning and overall nuance and feel, particularly on the snare?
Roland patented it, so that's why no one else has it (yet, the patent is about to expire soon). I don't really care about it to be honest. I think that feature is nice to have, but is over-hyped.
@M Kvex is also for td50, only thing I like about the mimic is the sounds, what I dislike about the mimic is the UI and the fact it's all screen, the roland screen is small but it's UI is not as hostile as some suggest, I've had mine a few weeks now and I'm working with vex sounds and layering my own in etc and getting really good results from it.
@@MrMikeydrum You can click one area and use the dial button to change value, no need all touchscreen all the time.I used Roland flagship before for 15 years, the interface touch is so much easier and faster, less pain on finger tap, quicker, less eyes pain, it's just psychological things. The sound on Roland are ok, but nothing as vst quality.
Well the problem is that when you charge $2000 for a drum module, people expect lots of features. So the drum company puts lots of features in the module. But then it's harder to understand how to use because of that. It''s a catch 22
Could you plug this module into any edrum set? Or would you have to have a compatible version? I wanna get an alesis surge and would like to know if eventually i could upgrade from the stock module
Hey Justin, i want to use 2 different kits with this drum module. One for practicing at home and one for live shows. One is a Yamaha Kit and the other is a roland/selfmade kit. Is it possible to setup presets for the input and switch between them with this module?
Justin, is it possible to record a playalong song and drums together with the record function in mimic? Or only drums? In roland is only drums possible
Hey Justin, I don't know if you'll ever see this but I would like your opinion. I have a dtx430k and I feel I've out grown it as far as skill and physical size(I'm 6'0ft) although I've never actually had a lesson. The pads and module are very limited as you know, mainly the snare and symbols. I like mesh pads but I think id prefer yamaha's silicon pads since I'm used to hard rubber. I'm 16 and money in my family is kind of tight and I'm not looking to spend more than $1500. What would you recommend? Also I would like a double bass pedal but don't know what is good yet reasonable in price. Thanks
WOW! Thank you Justin for that. It was just what I needed. My church just upgraded from a TD-20 and since I don't have hours to spend at the church just experimenting it has been a little tough to get things set up the way we want them. At least now I have a better idea of where all the adjustments are. One problem I have been having is the center of the snare seams very sensitive. A center hit will give a very loud crack while an off center hit is so soft it is barely audible. Our sound tec told me I am peeking with the center hit so he has to pull the gain down on the board but that causes him to loose ghost hits. Would adjusting the velocity curve fix the problem? Or might it be something to do with the rimshot threshold? I'll be glad when the new update hits the public. Our Mimic came with the first update installed but I could see things in the video that are not on ours yet. I also wish there was a speed control on RUclips. Some times you talk so fast it's like taking a sip from a fire hose. Lol! But I know you are just trying to keep the length to a reasonable time.
it sound like hotspot center cone, make sure when you do input gain low as possible that capture ghost note sound stick hit, and do capture top velocity, hit in dead center in cone area, loud as possible 5 time hit then store.
Not the module... it's the pad. Hot spotting is a symptom of pads with center cones like Roland pads. Tune the mesh head tight, adjust the center-piezo settings and adjust the velo-curve.
Damn! this thing is like total control with way better drum sounds than Roland, why is this since Roland has been co,omg out with the same lame sounding drums that sound way electronic
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Love your speed talking Justin, no unnecessary talk and all that, just good quick explanation.
Great Job!!!
That's what I was going for, glad you appreciated it :)
I’m 6 minutes into your pt 2 video and I’ve already learned more than I did from 45 minutes of reading the manual. A picture and Justin are worth a 1000 words. Thanks a ton!! 😃
Thanks so much man! I tried to lay out the important stuff as quick as possible :)
Congrats to the engineers who made this happen. And as always, great tutorial. Thank you, Justin
They put a lot of work into this module, I can tell just by using it. Thanks! :)
You just sold me on the mimic pro module. Great walkthrough Justin!
Excellent job fast-tracking how to get around the Mimic Pro module. Thanks, Justin, for all your endless hard work reviewing and detailing so many of the e-drumming products. You have advanced the art exponentially and we all owe you a boatload of gratitude! Marshall - Extreme Drums
this thing is waaayy better than any alesis or roland modules. customizable beyond belief! This is the module to get for your e-kit if acoustic drums is not an option. you scarifice a lot playing on e-kits instead of acoustic, but this module makes up for it, or almost. module manufacturers finally starting to get there, what drummers looking for
THE BEST explanation I have seen ...very clear . This will help a lot of people. Well done Justin.
I’ve binge-watched all your videos now I know what I want to buy!
(Thanks Justin!)
These videos are an awesome encyclopedia too for any future project or purchase or just curiosity. I’ve sent my nephew a bunch when he was asking me about edrums.
It'd be cool to see you revisit this since it has the ability to load multi samples and has position sensing now
Absolutely brilliant video Justin. Love the quick talking and absence of flab so common in other videos. Do you have any tips on getting the ATV snare wood attachment cross stick working properly?
Did you figure this out? I have an answer for you but don't want to waste your time
@@Tony_spumoni Yeah I did thanks.
Hey thanks Justin for the great tutorials.
Thanks brother Justin for this videos. Now I want one. Will let you know if I acquired one, Lord willing.
14:21 question about assign to pad.
My triggera china cymbal is just one piezo sensor but ever time I change kits it switches to making a bow sound instead of making a crash/china sound
For the past 4 years of owning this module I literally have just stuck with masters kit 1 because of this
You are a godsent, sir......still cant get my open hi hat to actually have an open hi hat sound but everything else is functioning impeccably 🙏
This is great J. Cheers.
Just got my Mimic and about to set it up...this has been an amazing intro. Quick question: depending on gigs, i may be using roland v-kit (without TD-20x!) or hybrid kit with 2box/stealth triggers. Is there a way to easily set up 2 sets of input parameters? Thanks again- will be subscribing!
Amazing video! Great product! Thanks Justin.
Justin, thank you so much haha :-D a true help with setting up the mimic!!!!
Hey Justin , thank you for all you unbiased information. You are doing a great job and comparing pros and cons for different topics . I wanted to ask your opinion, I am a worship leader at my church and we are looking to eventually get a new drum set up. We are using the Roland td10 I think. I I believe it’s a little out dated and some of the triggers are messed up. We are running it through a Yamaha head. My sound guy wants to have multiple outputs for each drum so when I was considering the Roland td25kv which I thought was the best bang for the buck, I realized it only had stereo out. So then I priced how much it would be if we got the Roland td25kv and sold the head and got the pearl mimic . I heard several samples of the mimic and i think it sounds amazing. So this option would cost about 3500 after selling the Roland head and purchasing the mimic. I can also find a set to play at many guitar centers without the pearl head though. The other option would be to convert our acoustic drum set to a hybrid . It’s not a nice drum set , but with the 80-90 dollar triggers you mentioned in a video , and some nice symbols which I think would run around 1000 and the pearl mimic head piece I’m thinking the cost would be almost the same either was. The look and feel of the acoustic drum set with the Roland meshed heads would be awesome , but do the triggers respond the same as a full electric kit. Would you know how the sound would compare? Any ideas or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. God bless.
Chais
Thanks so much Justin! Can you tell me if you can connect a Roland TM-2 to the mimic or how to incorporate the two together?
don't have have a mimic and i'll never get one but watching to support! that's a lot of work for a module very few people probably have. i wonder what the sales numbers are. is that something drum companies release?
Hi Justin! Awesome video! Again!! It is not clear to me to use the extra inputs on page 2 of the “edit kit” section. I would like to add more triggers/pads. Can you help me on this?
hello I'm looking for how can I muffle the plastics so that they do not resonate much through which function of pearl mimic proo ,, to put felt to muffle thank you
Hello Justin! Big fan of your videos, once I have a doubt on something I check them out and I always find an answer.
Unfortunately this is not the case, so I have a question for you: do this module support the Roland RT30 triggers? I don't see them listed in the trigger list you open on the PMP.
Thank you so much!
Yes this module works with almost anything, there's probably no trigger preset made for the RT30 yet, but that just means you'll have to manual set it up yourself in the settings. It'll work
Thank you - great walkthrough!
Justin, been watching your videos for a long time. As a person who dabbles in drums.. I typically use a TR8s drum machine but I am looking for a sample multipad to be able to work out fills and other musical ideas on the fly as the TR8s is playing the basic beat. Could you do a video that compares the various sample pad's out there and make a recommendation? It wont be used live, just for songwriting purposes. I need at least 6 decent size pads but more is welcome and budget is < $600. I'm not opposed to used gear. Just something I can work out ideas on with great sample playback capability. Thx!
Great Module with amazing sounds but huge expensive!!
Hey Justin, can you comment on the positional sensing and interval control that Roland has. I get the impression it is missing on the Mimic? Is that a big problem in your opinion in terms of machine gunning and overall nuance and feel, particularly on the snare?
Roland patented it, so that's why no one else has it (yet, the patent is about to expire soon). I don't really care about it to be honest. I think that feature is nice to have, but is over-hyped.
Hello, why does the automatic translation (in French!) not exist on this video? it works on all the others.
Whew ! I agree with Siren when he says that this module is way too technical for the average e drummer.
@M Kvex is also for td50, only thing I like about the mimic is the sounds, what I dislike about the mimic is the UI and the fact it's all screen, the roland screen is small but it's UI is not as hostile as some suggest, I've had mine a few weeks now and I'm working with vex sounds and layering my own in etc and getting really good results from it.
@@MrMikeydrum You can click one area and use the dial button to change value, no need all touchscreen all the time.I used Roland flagship before for 15 years, the interface touch is so much easier and faster, less pain on finger tap, quicker, less eyes pain, it's just psychological things. The sound on Roland are ok, but nothing as vst quality.
That is true. But who wants to be an average drummer?
Oh wait, I believe Justin knows the average drummer. It's a guy from Minnesota :-)
Well the problem is that when you charge $2000 for a drum module, people expect lots of features. So the drum company puts lots of features in the module. But then it's harder to understand how to use because of that. It''s a catch 22
Could you plug this module into any edrum set? Or would you have to have a compatible version? I wanna get an alesis surge and would like to know if eventually i could upgrade from the stock module
Hey Justin, i want to use 2 different kits with this drum module. One for practicing at home and one for live shows. One is a Yamaha Kit and the other is a roland/selfmade kit. Is it possible to setup presets for the input and switch between them with this module?
Yes but you need to do it on a per pad basis, you can then export the trigger settings to a USB and useit later
I really want/need this drum module
This module is incredible, I used 15 years flagship of Roland, it's night and day.
Hi, can you please tell if I want to restore the module to factory mode how can I do that?
Go to 24:35 of the video. I think that's what you are looking for.
I will buy when there is a Dave weckl kit !
Thank you so much
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
First? Another helpful video. Thanks Justin.
Justin, is it possible to record a playalong song and drums together with the record function in mimic? Or only drums?
In roland is only drums possible
Not true... u can in roland record all... not only drums..
@@NoSky84 which roland modul? Td30?
@@soultrain1973 TD17
Hey Justin, I don't know if you'll ever see this but I would like your opinion. I have a dtx430k and I feel I've out grown it as far as skill and physical size(I'm 6'0ft) although I've never actually had a lesson. The pads and module are very limited as you know, mainly the snare and symbols. I like mesh pads but I think id prefer yamaha's silicon pads since I'm used to hard rubber. I'm 16 and money in my family is kind of tight and I'm not looking to spend more than $1500. What would you recommend? Also I would like a double bass pedal but don't know what is good yet reasonable in price. Thanks
I'd get the TD17KV, but that just me
65 Drums I like the td-17 but it doesn’t have the hi-hat on a dedicated stand. I’m just worried that the dtx502 series is too old
Nice man. Great job.
Thanks Tim!
Thanks
Is this your favorite module now Justin?
WOW! Thank you Justin for that. It was just what I needed. My church just upgraded from a TD-20 and since I don't have hours to spend at the church just experimenting it has been a little tough to get things set up the way we want them. At least now I have a better idea of where all the adjustments are. One problem I have been having is the center of the snare seams very sensitive. A center hit will give a very loud crack while an off center hit is so soft it is barely audible. Our sound tec told me I am peeking with the center hit so he has to pull the gain down on the board but that causes him to loose ghost hits. Would adjusting the velocity curve fix the problem? Or might it be something to do with the rimshot threshold?
I'll be glad when the new update hits the public. Our Mimic came with the first update installed but I could see things in the video that are not on ours yet. I also wish there was a speed control on RUclips. Some times you talk so fast it's like taking a sip from a fire hose. Lol! But I know you are just trying to keep the length to a reasonable time.
it sound like hotspot center cone, make sure when you do input gain low as possible that capture ghost note sound stick hit, and do capture top velocity, hit in dead center in cone area, loud as possible 5 time hit then store.
Not the module... it's the pad. Hot spotting is a symptom of pads with center cones like Roland pads. Tune the mesh head tight, adjust the center-piezo settings and adjust the velo-curve.
@@johncallegari2721 Yes they are Roland pad from our TD 20 Kit. When you say adjust the piezo settings do you mean the settings in the Mimic pro?
Tim Pedzinski yes
“More piezos more problems”😂
so there is NO option in the mimic to layer samples...bummer.
You can on kick and snare
@@laloadler8044 i guess i missed that ...was it in this video..?
The Mimic looks like the module to end all modules...
all this is nice, but I cant even assign an aux channel to a damned pad
This machine looks very sensitive compare to Roland.
Damn. Wish I had the money to burn
You and me both, I'm not looking forward to returning this haha
My local church got this with some Roland triggers and weird drums heads…..I don’t like it.
Your church paired a very odd combo together, personally I wouldn't have done it that way
@@65Drums I know right,they should have bought the Roland VAD307 instead.
Damn! this thing is like total control with way better drum sounds than Roland, why is this since Roland has been co,omg out with the same lame sounding drums that sound way electronic