Advice for adding some electronic drums to an acoustic kit

[wheresgrant3]

I'm writing this on behalf of my drummer, who is a kickass, in-the-pocket player but has such a lack of knowledge about technology he doesn't even own a computer. Thus his keyboard player is writing this on hios behalf.

 

We play in a popular cover rock/dance/party band and we've recently added some classic early 90's hip hop/dance matieral to our setlist. Unfortunately our drummer only plays an acoustic kit, and although he's quite ingenious on how to emulate some of the beats and percussion, the effect is lost on an acoustic kit mic'd through a PA. We were wonder about adding some triggers and a drum module (or using one of the many kits midi to my synths), but we didn't know the first place to start. Should we use triggers, pads? Do we need to use a seperate drum module or can we just use one of the banks in my many synths midi'ed?

 

We are obviously looking for the cheapest/easiest solution (it's more for the effect and only to be used on 2 or 3 songs) and I don't want anything that will restrain his playing style. He's an amazing drummer (was nearly signed to a major label and his brother was part of a very famous 80's band) and he certainaly doesn't need anything to assist his playing... just needs to enhance the sound out of the PA.

 

Ideas?

[otacon28]

welll there's alot of different ways that you could go about doing this with varied results . you could add some trigger pads to the kit set up around the acoustic configuration just for use with those songs .. you could trigger the acoustic drums and just turn a drum module on when you guys want to access the electronic sounds for certain songs . you could get a drumkat, hart multipad 6 or a roland spd series triggering unit and use it for these songs as well .(i know alot of other drummers that do this live and it seems to work out well for them too) i just really depends on what all you're in need of using e-drum wise to play these songs

 

just some thoughts,

 

sam(otacon28)