E-drums: could they be a common thing for small bands gigs?

[OneEng]

It COULD have sounded good all night with eDrums, but there's so many other factors that come into it that its a stupid argument (because you can just "what if" with acoustic drums too). eDrums come with their own set of requirements that could easily make something relatively straightforward all go to shit. For every "eDrums would have solved this" they create just as many problems that don't exist for acoustic drums.

BS. I have mixed the same band with eDrums. It would have sounded great at any volume level.

Golf course restaurant. Checkmate. Drums bad.

In all fairness, it was one of the better sound stages I have seen indoors. The majority of places I have gigged have had a much smaller stage and dance floor than this place had (it's in the middle of >2M homes on 2 lakes).

Mixing around acoustic drums may well be what lots of people have done, and yes, you CAN make it sound good in the right situations (especially larger venues and outdoors), but anyone that does much mixing will tell you that for most bar gigs, the use of eDrums makes a much better sounding mix for rock bands (not Jazz).

While you may be able to raise the volume on a kick drum or bass guitar, those cymbals drive people away and plug up the vocal mics with noise.

 

[Orvillain]

A bunch of toff cunts in a golf club don't like loud rock music?? COLOUR ME FUCKING SHOCKED!

 

[OneEng]

A bunch of toff cunts in a golf club don't like loud rock music?? COLOUR ME FUCKING SHOCKED!

And of course you would assume that they didn't like loud music. SOME people that were there early didn't like loud music. The music was thunderous by the end of the night and the dance floor was packed. It was loud enough that the cymbals were no longer crazy out of wack with the mix.

Didn't make the early part of the night any less painful.

 

[DrewJD82]

A bunch of toff cunts in a golf club don't like loud rock music?? COLOUR ME FUCKING SHOCKED!

They do in Boca! The band I joined a couple years ago got booked regularly at one. I went there to check them out before I played with them, they were definitely using real drums. This isn’t them below, but a different band at the same golf course, Winston’s On The Green-



Man, that sound guy must have had a bitch of a time dealing with ALL that goin’ on back there….

 

[Chocol8]

To be fair...(que up Letter Kenny) That does appear to be outside, and the stage looks like it is about 10x the size of many indoor stages at smaller venues.

 

[HotRats]

 

[[Nathan]]

This thread has kept my eyes and ears peeled for how good acoustic kits sound in all environments.
I rewatched this track for other reasons but its crazy how good the drums sound... and in general such a brutal track for late night TV even by 2025 standards