Members Living Dead Drummer Posted April 8, 2012 Members Share Posted April 8, 2012 Yamaha gave me a custom DTX950 kit to use for a video shoot the other day. Sadly I had to return it when I was done with it, but check these pics out, this kit was so bad-ass!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twosticks Posted April 8, 2012 Members Share Posted April 8, 2012 Very Awesome, so it was really that great? thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rdrummer322 Posted April 8, 2012 Members Share Posted April 8, 2012 If I ever went back to a 6 piece that is the exact set up I would like. That rack really looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted April 8, 2012 Members Share Posted April 8, 2012 yeah the new yamaha edrums are very nice.....pads feel real good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Carminemw Posted April 8, 2012 Members Share Posted April 8, 2012 I played them in Columbus...they are a beast! If I only had the bread...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 9, 2012 Members Share Posted April 9, 2012 If I only had the bread...... You could make a sandwich? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 9, 2012 Members Share Posted April 9, 2012 The module sounds good enough but 5K + for a couple hundred wurtta stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 9, 2012 Members Share Posted April 9, 2012 It's way cooler than my DTXplorer, that's for sure. 1001: How's it only worth a couple hundred dollars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 9, 2012 Members Share Posted April 9, 2012 I've been paying attention to synths since Moog. mmmMmaaayybe, Moogs had to cost 5k. Digital synths? Pfft. You can get laptops and desktops and HD Tv for a couple hundred. Letchic drawms? pfft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 9, 2012 Members Share Posted April 9, 2012 Low volume and lack of competition drives price up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 yep...these ain't HD TV's. Not THAT many people are buying edrums. In yamaha and roland's production lines I'm guessing these don't take up a very high priority. With these kits you are paying for R&D time, and low relative production numbers. Cost of the materials to make them is totally irrelevant. Just the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 THIS based on EVERYTHING in the lineup kills or nuthin. I think the most of it is preserving the sales price of their other over inflated products. Notice how drums, guitars, keyboards, boards, monitors, too bad MF don't have Hos they'd be on the same scale too. Shipping not included. Just sayin' it's marketeering is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 I work in a low volume, premium product industry. Our R&D cycles are long, our manufacturing time is long, lead times on parts we need are long, and the cost of low volume parts for us... well, it's high. You'd be surprised what the difference in price-break is on a part when you are only ordering 10 per year, versus 100,000. And yes, marketing is going to market this specialized product as expensively as they can get away with. Why wouldn't they? If people want to spend $500 on e-drums, yamaha gives an option. If someone wants to spend $1500, there's an option for that. If someone wants to blow $5000 on one, here it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 Yamaha (Nippon Gakki) is a conglomerate. They make fine stuff. They also have all the "expensive" stuff in house. This and there is nothing expensive on letchic drawmz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 If enough people didn't buy it, they wouldn't sell it > So blame the people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 As quality a company as Yamaha is, the main topic is binnit. They squeeze every market they're involved in. The lords of the consortia won't have anything less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gspointer Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 The module sounds good enough but 5K + for a couple hundred wurtta stuff? Tell me about it! I have acoustic drums that have maybe 100 bucks worth of wood, and say 30 bucks in metal and other stuff, they cost like 3 grand. It is a bunch of marketing bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 Yeah but that's real crafted stuff lol. And if they cost 3k, they prolly kill. You *can* play right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kmart Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 Tell me about it! I have acoustic drums that have maybe 100 bucks worth of wood, and say 30 bucks in metal and other stuff, they cost like 3 grand. It is a bunch of marketing bs. Yet YOU chose to pay 3k for them, right? So you believed the marketing 'bs'.Arguing about the cost of goods, especially ones that you/others willingly buy... I don't know, but this thread smells like Communists to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 I thought the commies were all dead? U S A U S A U S A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danrothmusic Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 There's more to a product than just cost of raw materials. You've also got labor, overhead, and (most importantly, I believe) R&D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kmart Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 There's more to a product than just cost of raw materials. You've also got labor, overhead, and (most importantly, I believe) R&D. And packaging, advertising, logistics/shipping, product support, etc., etc., etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members irnbru83 Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 And packaging, advertising, logistics/shipping, product support, etc., etc., etc. And the "1001gear Mark-up", just for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gspointer Posted April 10, 2012 Members Share Posted April 10, 2012 Yeah but that's real crafted stuff lol. And if they cost 3k, they prolly kill. You *can* play right? Not really, I bought them to have a kit in my jam room so drummers don't have to haul theirs around. (3k includes cymbals and hardware btw). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 11, 2012 Members Share Posted April 11, 2012 It's not so much costs - labor/parts/RD/distro ... It's __ greed __. I can't get down with pay what you want, or cheap is Commie and high price is the Murkhan way. If consumers don't do their arithmetic, the greediest will always win, everybody else get on the hurt brigade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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