Super-Rare Electronic Drum Set (Unboxing Video)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2020
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Imagine sitting down on your brand new, state-of-the-art electronic drum kit, fan gently caressing your freshly-teased hair, acid-washed jeans bright against the sleek black of the geometric pads. Somewhere in the distance, you hear echoes of “Born In The USA”.
Well, it’s not 1985 anymore, and his hair isn’t teased, but in this video Jared Falk unboxes a barely-used TAMA Techstar kit and takes it for a test drive!
Made in Japan, this vintage kit is still in its original boxes, plastic and styrofoam. Electronic drums were invented in the late ’70s (you may recognize the hexagonal pads of the Simmons SDSV) and really gained popularity in the ’80s, so this Techstar was born during electronic drumming’s prime.
It consists of four TSP100 pads and a kick pad, with circular surfaces on square pads (continuing the geometric pad trend that started in the 70s).
What better way to get original 1980s electronic samples than to use an original kit from the 1980s?
The module lets you adjust tone, attack and decay, and also has knobs for bend and noise - nice and simple. This kit doesn’t come with cymbal pads, a bass drum pedal or throne, so Jared added real cymbals.
The samples we have on modern electronic kits can be pretty realistic, and the samples on the ’85 Techstar sound extremely dated by today’s standards, but it gives you an idea of a high tech drumming option from the heyday of electronic drum sounds in music. You’ll sound like a drum machine when you play it!
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Sweet, even has the original packaging!
Justin needs to be on Drumeo.
Do you want to reshoot part 2 now?
You just know Justin will be lurking in the comments when you see the title
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hi justin
15:11 "Whatever samples were used..."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure all those older e-drum brains were simply analog synth modules at their core. No samples involved, which is why they've been prized in the recent past.
You are correct. Noise and tone generators smashed together .
I owned the sound module off of this way back when, and yes, all analog tone generators.
Correct
Yes is analog, that drum kit from Tama came after the TS-305 and TS-306 drum kits with hexagonal pads (I used to have one of those in 1984).
Their was that one magical drum module that had linn drum samples
I am a huge fan of the drums from the 80ties, I played TAMA, PEARL, Simmons, Roland from the era. Now I am building my own set with a unique shape of the drums, never seen before.
I love it! what a find. But the best bit: Jared's comment 'its a quarter note jack' (2:32) I'm stealing that.
Jared seems like a kid that just got given a new (old rather) toy! Love the excitement trying this relic of a drum kit.
I love how drum manufacturers started catching up in innovation. For awhile all the cool electronic gear went to guitars and synths etc... kool kit...👌🏾
This kit is in awesome shape for its age & sounds really cool & close to a Simmons from the 1980s. I definitely want a 6-piece Simmons SDS8 in red & will set it up with my Zildjian A cymbals.
I almost flipped my shit waiting for you to make that kick drum sound like an analog kick drum, instead of a plastic bag.
80s had the best products ever! Love that kit!
That Tama drum kit sounds way better than it sounds in this video, apparently he doesn't know how to use it, need to understand how each of the knobs works, believe me when you study that you will unleash the full potential of the kit.
PS. I use to have a Simmons SDS-8, SD$-9, Simmons TMI and Tama Techstar TS-305. the only analog drum kit that I still have is my beloved Simmons SDSV in white.
Bought my 1st. Drum kit in 1965. Was 13 yrs. old. 3 piece set ( LUDWIG ) Zildgian ride & crash with high hat. Paid for it myself, sold it for my 1st. Car. 1957 Chevy. Wish I had both items NOW ⁉️ Have 20 piece PEARL KIT in storage as we speak. Never would have thought of playing anything else / but like wat I see & wouldn’t mind having a TAMA KIT like this one NOW. WILLY CA 🥁🔥⚡️
As I'm in an apartment, I have to go electronic for drums anyway. As a musician who leans more towards electronic than rock, I don't care about "realistic acoustic drum sounds". I sought out rich analog and lo-fi samples. My setup is Simmons SDS9 pads and Roland and Pintech cymbals, with Simmons SDS9 and SDSV modules, as well as an Alesis Trigger I/O into an Ensoniq Mirage. The SDSV is the king of analog drum synths, very responsive to dynamics.
That looks like it's really well made and sturdier than most low-mid level e drums of today! I love the bass drum.
I love the bass drum too:-)
2nd generation module!! I remember playing these back then!! They were in competition with the original Simmons drums
The 1st generation pads were semi-hexagonal shaped. I still have a white T5100 trigger pad :)
This takes me back to my days as a teenager. 80s rules. ❤️ Cool looking set 🥁
It's so funny that this video just dropped as my first vintage e-kit literally arrived in the mail yesterday: a red 1984 Simmons SDS-8 which sounds absolutely blissful!
No samples involved in these modules these were analog drum synthesizers with each input engineered for the labeled task i.e. snare, Tom, bass
Basically these had a tunable analog oscillator (usually square or sine wave) and an analog white or pink noise generator that you could blend together, the oscillator would have a pitch bend circuit to make the rise or falling pitch sound that was triggered by the pad input, the pad input would also generate the trigger for the envelope generator that would in turn activate the VCA (voltage controlled amplifier), in the background the noise generators and the oscillators for each channel were free running and the VCA would determine the output of that drum channel’s level to the stereo mix or that channels output of the brain had individual outputs
I played the Techstar at Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center in Wheaton, MD. I would go there on my lunch hour when I worked at AT&T nearby. That was 1986! I was 19!
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Sounds more like a percussive synthesizer than anything else! That's super neat!
Oh my goodness, my teacher in the 80s and 90s had this kit. He rarely turned it on but used it for students to play on. $11 per half hour for years. RIP Phil Salah, a local teaching legend.
Were pretty lucky these days even the most cheapest drum module out today blows that old stuff out the water Nice Relic to have tho!
I don't think so, the Simmons SDSV still the king of analog electronic drums.
@@carlosserrano3985 Exactly
it looks like it a prop for back to the future🔥
Great Scott!
@@DrumeoOfficial Well it does run on Plutonium.
Wait a minute, you mean this sucker's nuclear?!
@@timtyler8822 No no no this suckers electrical - but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity I need....
Or you could plug it in...
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I remember the Tama Techstar, I owned a Simmons sds1000 in the 80's and wish I still had it! Cool video, it brings me back.
Gotta love that drum set. It all looks so well made plus I like the noise setting,technology has come very far
I wasn't hearing the drum sounds... just the "fwapp!" of you hitting the triggers.
i was today years old when i found out that jared is way older than he looks
Love the solo with the tone on full
Thanks Drumeo. You bring so many interesting stuff for us!
Dude, you missed the perfect opportunity to play the fill from “In the Air Tonight.” Shame on you.
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@@DrumeoOfficial ahhhahaha
Oooof
outplayed
@@DrumeoOfficial touché.
The groove at the end was super cool.
Wow what a really cool video! It's pretty amazing how far edrums have come since then. I'm a lot older than you because in 1985 I was gigging at least five to six nights a week. Eventually I did get a Simmons SDS1 and it had an array chips that you could insert to change the sound but it didn't hold up too well night after night. I don't play professionally anymore but I have a little set of Alesis in my apartment and I really enjoy sitting down and playing them just for fun. Thanks again for the great video!
Thank you guys for what you do
I owned a set of these in 1985! Loved them!
Talk about dinosaurs: I have an old Pearl Syncussion from 1979. Two small white drums, two channels. The same kit was used by New Order and OMD. Pheeeeeeeew-phew. :)
I was born in 79 and I remember hating the drum sounds of edrums. Never knew why, at 7 years old, I could ID the sound of it. Now I'm a big fan of edrums, especially of Roland V-DRUMS.
I had one back in the day. I used the clap and toms with acoustic snare, bass drum, and cymbals. Also used a Roland Octopad connected to an Alexis drum module. It sounded great in our dance band!
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10:50
DJ Jared
Awesome the kit looks really cool 🤩🥁
I have a parts kit with a Roland TD9 module, Pintech LTE 3 Zone ride, Goedrum HH controller, and previous generation Roland pads. Fun to use, and works to record MIDI. Super cool video, and yeah the analog synth-ness was very 80s.
I've tried those out in the late 80's. I also used a Roland TR707 to trigger the TAMA drums. The TR707 has individual outputs so everything could be used to plug into the TAMA module. I used the hexagonal pads (TechStar) ...don't remember exacly which model. The one I used had much more punch. I got a much heavier bass drum sound. And the toms had more tone and attack. I guess you just have to fiddle around with the knobs a bit more. And no, there were no samples.
I love that, the sounds and controls are very close to my Simmons SDS8 vintage kit. I believe out there there are still programmable eproms where you can save customized sounds (not sure that's applicable to this kit). A great find imo. Thank you for the video.
Omg... Pretty cool. I need to pull out my old Simmons SDS8 kit again lol.
I have an Alesis mesh kit. Love it!!
holy moly that kit sound amazing
I love my TrapKat with Alesis DM5 sound module. So many pads in a small space. I played with one band that did Santana and was really cool to have the Latin percussion to play on Kit 2 with the songs. I also have a Roland V-drums kit with TD-6v sound module. For a while, I had the Roland as the base kit, with a couple more cheap kits, (Ion, Pyle) thru the DM5 for total of 13 pads with 5 toms, snare, high & low cowbell, handclap, vibraslap, canasta roll, tamborine and zap, + 6 cymbals, hi-hat and double bass. I used to have the Mattel Synsonic drums too and I think they sounded better than those Tamas when run through amp.
I think Jared is hoping there's an 8-bit video game renaissance, so he can audition to be the soundtrack drummer 😂🤘
Jared bouta win the next drum-off with this thing
thumbs up for the edit there at 3:35
I swear, he could make a 1 hour video on drumsticks and make it interesting.
He did
Yay ! Something to watch whilst i'm having my dinner ! :)
Cymbals sounded great! I take those drums right back to wherever you got them from. LOL
Alesis Strike module with acoustic to electric conversion kit FTW
1:11 nice little subtle cam move in post, there!
Digging the sounds on these. Sounds like something thats coming from an NES.
I have the original rack mounted tone generators. It takes up a whole corner in our control room. It's basically a giant 808 and 909 amalgamation
THIS IS SO VERY COOL !!!!!!!!! I feel you are not a huge electronic drum guy, so this is quite awesome to watch !!!!! Well done Jared
OMG. I had one of those when they were new. It was during the time when drummers felt like we were becoming extinct to drum machines and all the tunes had that analog electronic drum sound. It had better feel than the Simmons kit. It got boring quickly though and I mostly ended up triggering my bass drum through the "brain". That was pretty awesome.
Playing drums brings out the children in all of us :)
that jam where everything was on tone was AMAZING. i wanna hear a song that does that
9:48 Soundhey? I love that guy!
Great stuff. I own a Ddrum AT module which I got in 1991 and a Ddrum 4 module with cast pads and cymbal pads which I got in 1997. In my opinion, I still prefer using these to any modern electronic kit including all the current high end Rolands (but I will say the Yamaha EAD10 is the first product that I have had any interest in for a long time). The hi-hats are the only compromise for me on the ddrum 4 as you only have at most 4 sound “positions” - but overall with a little reverb and compression they still sound awesome.
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Still sounds great !
It would be cool to see reaction videos from the drummers who come in and visit your studio play it. Could possibly be some new content for your channel!!
Very Popular Back in the day lots pop bands used them including Flock of Seagulls
if You like analog style synth drums - try Nord Drum
Jared, I see Christmas has come early for you sir! 😊
kind of excitement if i have this unboxing kit!
11:30 🎵"Every breath you take...."🎵
Now those are some cool sounds. :)
Very much...uh...just cool! Reminds me of an old MIDI Soundblaster pumping out the sick tunes of DOOM (on PC-DOS, obviously!)
Rare doesnt mean not garbage..but still love it
man... How I wanted to play some of those synth drums from the 80s... hahaha
I’m playing a td 17 kvx and I love it
When I saw the original packaging I wanted to hear the song from the Josh Scott JHS guitar pedals videos.. "He has the box!" lol..
Every time he said "decay", I kept hearing "Takei" and I'm thinking "oh, myy"
An E-Drum from the 80's that's why it sound 80's. Didn't expect much from it being a good e-drum or what. Unlike todays e-drums which are practically better sounding.
Rock on🤘🎸✌️80's.
I remember when that came out. Pretty cool.
Hi
I did have this drum kit & Still have it till now.
Nice kit bro
Hello there nice drum set you got. I have some vintage drums too, I have the Yamaha ptx8 with the ptt8 toms. I also have the Roland DDR 30 with the price 31 and of 21 toms love them 🤘.
I don't really want a Electric Kit, but I really want some drum triggers and mesh drum heads. This way I can still use samples on a regular drum set. I would also add in some Roland Cymbals
Drumeo for the bloody win win!!
I just recently purchased an Alesis Nitro mesh kit. It's compact and has alot of options for the price.
Hey awesome video I also wish that I could play this drum which was created way back then!!!
Literally bought one of these new in the mid 80s. I remember thinking how cool it was, lol.
I had a Gretsch e-drum kit around the same time that this Tama came out and it had a similar head module. The only issue I had with it was the fact that you could bump the knobs and totally screw up the sound. There was no way to save settings. I played an entire gig with my bass drum sounding like it was from outer space because I had accidentally bumped the bend and decay up on that channel and I couldn't hear enough high end from my monitor to know. I was horrified when I heard the audio from the show and felt extremely embarrassed. I started taping down all but the volume knobs on every channel after that.
PS - you can make these sound much more like acoustic drums if you know what you're doing. LOL! There are no samples. These are all-analog modules.
Drum kit is still not bad I like
This wasn’t #TAMA’s first stab at eDrums either. I had the Synth/Clap analogue tone generator module that came with two pads and the pads are 6-sided but two of the sides are longer. Real heads included and a large piece sensor inside mounted to the underside of a pressed particle wood. The set in this video was their second design with 4-sided pads. They’re all scarce now but these are difficult to find ...much less in THIS great condition. Nice #DRUMEO!
Like the way he's all excited 🤣
Suddenly my £450 TourTech TT22M with EZDrummer doesnt sound so bad ! ( ps I love my drums )
Jared looks like himself at Christmas in 1988, if instead of opening and playing a Nintendo NES for the first time, he opened and played a Tama E-drum kit for the first time. What a rad visual.
He has the box! 🎶
I purchased the Tama Tech Star set when they were first made in 1985, I could not really understand how to operate the controls and I had a hard time liking the sounds. I still have the set but haven’t played them in years.
I cant lie, I love the kick and snare sounds 😀. Let me save you some time on the module reviews.....
Pearl Mimic, GEWAs flagship, Roland TD50. Then the 2Box.
Good, now let’s put it back in the box for another 35 years.
That Sounds Really Good ♥️💕💙❤️🏕️ I love it 🥰😍🤯
Don't know about the pads, but these cymbals actually sound impressive :D