2box for hard hitters?

[BURNIN AMBITION]

arent you guys on warranty? wont they be replaced?if not is there ane alternate hi hat cymbal we could buy that is also 2zone?

[GenuineHuman]

Well, I'm not that kind of a customer that would return a product because of a small crack on the rubber pad. The functionality of hi hat is not hampered because of this crack.

[BURNIN AMBITION]

well ok i didnt know how serious it was. any possibility of a photo?

[François]

Hi every one, first sorry for my poor english i'm french so... anyway,
I bought the new MK2 tow months ago, what can i tell about the hardware... it's pretty fragile, i broked the rim of my snare and from one tom, the rim of all my toms makes some little holes on the mesh (exactly at the place where the rubber connect the rim to the tom), i had the edge of one cymbale who had been cut, returned to the seller and went back changed but still cut about 2cm on the edge, go back again to the seller, and right now i'm still waiting for my parts since almost a month.
I love the great sounds of the 2Box, but the hardware is not enough tough for me.
I usually play on my Superstar TAMA Xtras from the 80's, and i'm playing drums since 29 years, my kinda music "fusion" if that can help someone?

[orly]

My hihat cymbal is on the way to Thomann as it is under warranty.

Edit: it's been repaired, I received it this morning.

[husum10]

I like to hit pretty hard especially on the snare to get that no-nonsense beat. have a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzIQjXhpds
the black snare rim is now completely broken and detached from the drum - so if you're a hard hitter
the snare will probably break down

[Krillo]

If you're a hard hitter - use regular heads or billy blast heads. But yeah, the cymbals... I almost break my cast ddrum cymbals   

[BURNIN AMBITION]

at least if we break em we can get jman cymbals
hopefully customs wont fick us over here and pay little i hope

though i believe that if you have not big sticks, (i use 7a) then if you are a bit carefull , they are fine. when i get carried away, i also hit, but nothin has hapened yet

[macleod]

I'm quite a heavy hitter on acoustic drums but when I play 2box I'm usually much more 'relaxed' as there is no need to hit the drums hard to get the right sound from them. My suggestion is to learn to play electronic kit with less power and more precision. It will save the drums and give you the chance to show that you are versatile drummer  . Unless you just want to show off. But, frankly, who would want to show off playing like for example Travis Barker on electronic kit... 

[Krillo]

I think it's a pretty interesting subject actually! Firstly the snare I think is always the weakest link in an electronic kit. I don't know if the 2box uses velocity to trigger (switch to) rimshots, but I guess so. (I'm still on ddrums) My point being that on an acoustic snare you can actually play pretty soft and still get rimshots, it's just a matter of playing technique. So the lowest rimshot velocity will be well below the maximum velocity on the head, making the two "overlap" velocity-wise. So on an electronic kit you need to hit the snare with a certain velocity to even get a rimshot sound, and the transition from one to the other is seldom very smooth.

Then there is the subject of what the guy who sampled the sounds thinks is the "maximum velocity". If you want the sound of a really heavily hit drum, but it's not in the range of the samples sounds, what then do you do? In my opinion that limitation often makes electronic drums sound more lame, regardless of the numbers of layers.