Alesis DM10 Studio Electronic Drum Kit - 2010 Version

Absolutely love this kit. Though I am no drummer (about to learn) so I may not be the best judge! I am impressed with the drum sounds & the feel of the drums. Easy to set up and to me it seems like a lot of drum kit to fit into a small place. Ideal for studio or home. Andertons were very helpful when I rang for advice after placing the order - very honest and helpful.

Happy with Alesis DM10 although a little tricky to set up and receiving a lot of crosstalk from the set. Andertons have been very helpful in dealing with any problem I have had!

brilliant bit of kit, takes about an hour to set up, real heads, are much better than the mesh heads, as when you go back to an accoustic kit your playing stay's the same, loads of great kits but best to define your own, more features than i will ever need, and my neighbour's love it too.

I'll start on the good points. fantastic kit for the price, very responsive with lots of different aspects of druming sounds combined into one brain .. now for the bad points. the sounds for the kit when playing through an i pod can be muffled ,especially the snare, one of the tom skins has broken due to overtightening by myself (divots appeared when i played so i felt it was loose)..complicated instructions for the brain , when all you need to do is play a drum kit... overall I would road test all kits before purchasing again ... fantastic staff at andertons.....

I read many reviews about drum kits on line and decided that this kit was the one for me. I have really not been disappointed at all. This was delivered very quickly with excellent customer service from the company. The initial set up does take a little while (about four hours for me) but once this is doe it is plain sailing!

The sounds that come from the kit are excellent and it has good scope for adding user defined sounds. I have also found the inbuilt rhythms/patterns an excellent source for practicing my drumming and playing along to. It is simple to connect an additional sound source - so playing things directly into the drum brain from an ipod/mp3 player just needs one simple lead and works brilliantly!

All in all I would say this is a great kit and well worth the money paid.

Alesis really have pulled out all the stops. Great product. The drum module has alot to learn but when you get time to do it and not get carried away and just start playing. It's not Yamaha or Roland it's Alesis but it cost £700 not £5000.

All in all very happy :)

As a kit for my son to learn on this has turned out to be, overall, a very good buy for the money. On the advice of a teacher, I bought this particular kit because the size and number of pads is more like a conventional kit than other electronics in the price range - an important consideration if you're going to be doing exams or performances on a conventional kit. It looks the part as well, important for making sure my son really fell in love with it.

Beware, though, that if space is an issue this kit takes up a good 5 foot square so you might have to do some serious thinking about how to fit it into your living room. It's also very far from noiseless, so anyone in the same house (or the other side of a thin wall/ceiling) will have to get used to some very irritating thumping and tapping.

Be prepared to spend some time reading the manual before setting up, there are a lot of electronic settings to adjust before the kit's playable, and they're far from intuitive.

At the price it's in a class of its own, but the higher-end Roland sets with mesh heads (like his teacher's) are much nicer to play and quieter - if you can possibly afford them.

An excellent drum kit, with superb sound quality. The stand and drum pads are solidly built and feel very realistic to play.

The DM10 module itself contains 100 pre-set drum kits which can all be customised to your delight, and there is space for 100 of your own creations. The module is so versatile I have not even explored all the features of it yet.

One minor criticism of the kit is that the pads are connected to the frame by plastic clamps, and I am a little concerned as to how well they will hold up to years of pounding. However they've done brilliantly so far so it may not be an issue for concern.

Overall, a brilliant kit for practising and gigging, and compared to similar kits by competing brands utterly unbeatable value.

I purchased this kit after a 4 year break from drumming and much research.

I wanted an electric kit that gave me a very similar feel to a real kit and this is the best for the money. The drum heads are very good, as they take real drum skins you can have any head you want, it comes with some clear Alesis branded ones that feel very good. The drum pads are fairly quiet and have a good response, they are not too bouncy like some solid rubber pads. The cymbals are OK, obviously as they are not metal they do not provide the same feed back and at times do feel a little bit lacking, however this is a kit designed to be quiet so for that they are good.

The DM10 module is a fantastic piece of kit for the money. It supports dynamic articulation so the strokes sounds as they would on a real kit. You can adjust the sensitivity of the drums to suit your playing, so if you are gentle and want more dynamic range then lowering the sensitivity allows this.

Overall the build quality if very good, the entire kit feels very sturdy and worth every penny paid.

This is a superb electronic drum kit. I have a Ludwig accoustic kit and was unsure about electronic kits. I have tried several including Rolands and this kit has a great feel to play. I got it mainly for practice but I am keen to try it in a gig situation as i think the available drum kit sounds and effects will be useful playing live. For the money I think the kit is the best in its class. Overall I am very impressed!!

This electronic drum kit is excellent, i cant praise this kit enough. I have been playing the drums for roughly 10 years now and have always used an acoustic kit. I didn't think an electronic kit would compare to an acoustic in terms of feel and also sound but this kit definitely does, the sounds/kits that are in the module are great and there is 100 to choose from, there is a kit for everyone, and if there is not you can create your own.

Also there is many different tweaks you can apply to the drum kits and this can provide hours of fun.

Although the kit was not playable once setup out of the box due to the triggers setting off different sounds, e.g the cymbal could set off the bass pedal. I downloaded the latest update from the Alesis website and updated the kit, and straight away the triggers were set perfectly, no fiddling around needed. Also hooking up my ipod/mp3 player to the module is simple and easy to do and playing along with the music and your drumming through headphones is a lot of fun and great practice.

Last but not least one of the most handy things that comes with having electronic drums is the ability to play through headphones, this also allows me and my band mate to hook up his guitar to the module and we can both play through headphones, creating a silent jam.

Perfect!

Absolutely stunning kit for the price - I was wondering whether to upgrade my DM6 by either getting the pro or studio set, or by buying the module separately (about £400 new) and expanding when money allowed me.

Seeing the deal on the Andretons website forced my hand - the extra 10 inch pad is great because one of the things that was drawing me to the Pro kit was the 10 inch floor tom - now I have a 10 and 8 inch floor tom, and a leftover 8 inch pad to put as a 3rd rack/piccolo!

The kit itself is a HUGE step up from my DM6, and after slapping a set of Pearl muffle heads on and doing a little shuffling around of the foam inside the pads (search for hellfire DM10 mesh upgrade), they're sooooo mcuh quieter, and feel like one of my friend's Roland mesh pads! Obviously the reason for getting this kit is the value you get for the money, and the module is the best example of this - I'm really impressed with the sounds on offer, and at first the settings you can tweak is a bit overwhelming -pad sensitivity, crosstalk settings, velocity curve, a trigger for the rim and the drum head, and the ability to have two sounds for one trigger (e.g. snare and tambourine like the Sonor jungle snare), 100 kits with 100 spaces for your own defined kits, and a lot more I haven't bothered to learn about yet!

The bundled free items are good, I like the TAMA stool and pedal, although I'd gotten used to my Pearl P120P from my old kit, and the Stagg sticks and headphones are the sort of quality you expect with Stagg products, but as freebies, they're very welcome!

The price speaks for itself really - it's a no brainer, especially with the 0% finance deal!

Purchased the Alesis DM10 Studio kit as the offer Andertons had was too good to miss - £100 off, free accessory kit, free alesis 8" and 10" drums. Kit was for my son(14yrs) who had researched online. Service and deilvery of all packages was excellent and was delivered within a week of ordering online.

As for the drum kit I am very impressed with all aspects of it. It is well built and of high quality. Setup was very easy and my son was up and running within a couple of hours and hasn't stopped since! There is so much to the DM10 that only one word can describe it - amazing and would highly recommend it.

As for Andertons - I would purchase from them again - no problem. Fast, efficient and friendly service. Thanks very much.

I have returned to drumming after a long break due to the noise of my old kit i could not play very often, this kit means i can play at any time with headphones. A great thing is you can play along to an ipod and you can download music without drum tracks to play along to.

The feel of the drums was a present surprise and the large amount of drum kit sounds make finding the best sound great fun.

The deal from Andertons was great and the service excellent. I was after some advice on types of sticks etc and i always received a reply within 24 hours.

Very nice kit which is slightly spoiled by being a bit of a pain to set up, especially for a relative newcomer to digital drums. The assembly instructions are ok but it took a while for me to find a playing position that was comfortable. The module is set up really poorly for out of the box playing though and only now after a couple of weeks am I getting there in terms of getting the settings right.

Once it is setup though it looks and sounds great. Service from Andertons was top notch as well.

I have a basic starter acoustic kit which has been gathering dust due to my practice space has now been converted into a home office.

A demo kit was available to try in the shop and I did some comparisons on cheaper and more expensive kits but opted for the Alesis.

The Alesis DM10 was at a discounted price and came with everything I needed to setup and play, though some parts were thrown in to the deal, these were an an extra bundle (seat, sticks, kick pedal and head phones) so make sure you get that. They even threw in 2 spare pads!!

Once home, 3 cups of tea and three hours later I was behind the kit ready to play.

Build quality of the frame is a little plasticy, but ample for the job. It does not take up quite as much space as real acoustic kit and can be moved by 2 people very easily.

I was expecting, due to previous reviews to have to spend some time callibrating the kit, this was not the case and all worked well from the get go, apart from a weird effect of a constant cymbal noise which was cured by a reboot and has never returned.

I'm only into day 2 with this kit and the only thing I have to say is the hi hat does not react like a real kit, it's not far off but it's something I'll be tweaking to get it more life like.

The sound is excellent and the varied kits are fun to play with many are just show off kits with weird samples and I'm sure I'll end up sticking with just a few or tieing the kit to logic-pro.

It's getting 5 stars from this amateur player because of the big grin I've been wearing plugging it in.

This is my first foray into electronic drums. I also do a lot of composing myself and do need a drum set to add to my array of guitars, keyboards etc. What a drum set! it does have some realism to it and just a pleasure to play with it.

So what makes it good; the module itself is so easy to use and to set up. The sounds are amazing and the ability to program your own kits makes it so flexible.

However, as I use if for composing songs I use the midi output to use the sample drum sounds with Cubase 6. Unfortunately I had a bit of trouble trying to get Cubase to recognise the DM10. After some restarting of the module and computer, I managed to get it going.

Latency is a bit of a problem at the moment and it will need some adjustments.

Notwitstanding the problems, I still think it is a great drum set...

Bought this kit for my 13 year old son as an upgrade to his 'starter kit' (a Session Pro model). In short, he loves it. Personally I know very little about drumming, but found the kit very easy to set up and once put together, although there was crosstalk between some of the pads/cymbals, this was quickly eliminated by playing with the sensitivity settings. The kit is turdy, my son says the pads have a real feel to them (as a result they are noisier than his old kit) and there are a vast range of options in the control module. Connectivity with other kit including IPod, MP3 etc is simple and effective for that 'playalong' capability.

Service from Andertons was excellent - one of these kits was set up in the shop, my son played around on it for ages, and compared it with several others. The kit wasn't in stock at the shop but they voluntered free delivery, within 2 days. The free pack (stool, base kick and headphones) are reasonable quality too. The kits was a couple of hundred pounds cheaper than from other retailers.

Read reviews from experienced drummers if you want to learn more about the kit but I'd heartily recommend it as a mid range piece of kit, and would definitely buy from Andertons again.

I bought this drum kit for my 20 year old son. It arrived quickly and he built it with no problems. It's brilliant quality and he loves it.

Great Kit !

A little patience is required to set it up and adjust various trigger settings but it soon becoms second nature.

The manual is easy to read and explains in detail how the varius settings work without over complication.

This kit can give an acoustic kit a run for it's money soundwise ! I've only played through the headphones so far but talking to folks who've actually gigged with this kit have reported nothing but postive audience feedback !

The free accessories are fantastic !

I've seen some sites that offer the same package but will charge an additional £100 !

Plenty of support on offer from fellow users online Particularly useful is dmdrummer.com which is a community of alesis drummers. lots of good advice and support including representation from Alesis !

A huge thumbs up for the exellent service provided by Andertons !

I'll be back for more stuff and wil be recommending you to my freinds!

I'm not an expert at drumming but wanted a kit that i could develop on and thought it was worth spending a bit more.

The Alesis DM10 is a great looking kit, was fairly straight forward to set up and i've loved playing it.

You will need to tweak the cross over issues but i've never done it before and found the manual straight forward to follow and after i'd done that it improved dramatically.

I'm sure there is lots the kit can do that i have yet to explore but for now i am very pleased with my purchase and would recommend it to drummers of all levels. A big benefit for me was having the ride and two cymbals and 4 toms included, most kits only have the basic/minimum set up.

I'll begin my tale of woe with some background. I'm principally a guitar player but have always wanted to learn drums, so a couple of years ago I bought myself a cheap digital kit for my flat for £300. I found myself really enjoying the kit as its default sound was a pretty cool rock kit that sounded great playing along to just about anything. Finally, I decided that I was enjoying it enough to get an upgrade to a new kit and the DM10 studio looked perfect for me, having real drum heads and more drums and cymbals.

Taking advantage of Anderton's excellent 0% finance deal, I ordered the kit, and waited expectantly for it's arrival.

When the drums came I spent 3 hours putting the kit together, assembling the rack system, fitting all of the drums and the cymbals, attaching the DM10 module and then wiring the whole lot with the cable loom provided. I sat

down at the stool excitedly to try them out and see just how good they sounded, given everything I had read about the multi-layered professional sounds.

That's when my problems started. Switching on the unit, I immediately ran into a configuration error that would not go away regardless of how many times I switched the unit off and on again (in best IT support tradition!).

Eventually, the one way I could get the error to clear was to unplug all of the cables and switch the unit on independently.

Cables reconnected, I tried my first roll around the default kit. To my IMMENSE disappointment, not only did the kit not sound exciting at all, every time I hit a drum it triggered a cymbal at the same time! Things were going off all over the place. All of the drums were at different levels too and rolling around the toms went from quiet to deafening and back again!

Also, the high hat seemed to have a mind of it's own, even after I realised that I had to calibrate it (why?). Closing the high hat seemed to splash it rather than give a nice tight closed sound and unless you had your foot down hard on the pedal it would do all sorts!

I thought I would cheer myself up by cycling through the sounds and seeing what the range of kits sounded like. Again I was disappointed. None of them sounded as inspiring as my old £300 kit and I could not find one that made me want to stay and play. Maybe they all sounded too much like real drums for my philistine tastes? Who knows? Even trying to put together my own kit from the individual sounds didn't work for me.

Then there were the drums themselves. I know that one of the selling points was the real drum heads, but it practice, I found the kick drum so loud that it overpowered the kick sample in my headphones! I also got noise complaints from my next door neighbour that I never had with the old kit (although that is probably as much to do with my laminate flooring). Since, I've tried towels over the head and getting some padded floor tiles, but nothing has improved the situation.

Eventually, after reading the manual from cover to cover, adjusting various settings too numerous to mention, moving cymbals about, speaking several times to their technical support people (who were admittedly very helpful) and downloading software updates from their website, I managed to calm some of the problems to a point where the kit is almost playable (although the hi-hat is still a law unto itself) but for £700 I expected a kit I could just plug in and play, not spend a weekend trying to configure to make it play-able!

I'm so disillusioned now that every time I look at the kit it depresses me and I don't feel inspired to play it at all. What a waste of money. Rather than spurring me on to play more it has probably finished me as a budding drummer.

To sum up my experience of my new Alesis DM10 studio drums in one word - Depressing!

The kit is very cool!

The kit's build is sturdy and doesn't take up very much room. Looks very crisp in my studio. Also the service from Anderton's was spot on: great customer service and very prompt delivery.

My DM10's primary function was always going to be playing kits within Superior Drummer/ Pro tools 8 so I've had a quick flick through the Alesis onboard kits which all sound quite good. In saying that I'd want to go through and layer up the individual pieces to taste, which is a great feature in itself. Had some fun jamming around with the 'world percussion' type kits.

It took me a few hours to put the kit together, get rid of crosstalk and calibrate each individual pad to Sup. Drummer, to then have the people downstairs complain about the 'thud, thud' - well so much for playing a kit with headphones! I'm now off to B&Q to get the materials for a 'tennis ball riser' to get rid of the vibrations :(

I purchased the drum Kit for my son before he started at ACM.

They said he needed to practice 2hrs a day so my mind immediatly turned to an electronic kit which has proved to be much quieter than acoustic dums.

Highly recommend this kit, it has an awesome sound and great set up to play. A definite must have for drummers who need to practice at home and unable to use an acoustic set.

I absolutely love this kit. The feel of the drum heads is superb (I prefer this to the mesh heads you find on Roland and Yamaha), was tempted to buy the DM6 this was so worth the extra money.

Everything is totally adjustable, the rack is really well made and sturdy and the pads extremely solid. The skins being tension adjustable is a really nice touch and you can just replace them when they wear out.

I was a bit nervous about the bass drum, but the accuracy when using a double pedal is just superb. And if you haven't got the most powerful feet in the world you can adjust the sensitivity so it acts like sticking a trigger on a real bass drum.

All in all I can't fault this kit...it can take a little while to get everything adjusted to your own personal tastes, but this is more a testament to the flexibilty and user tweakability of the kit.

The DM10 module is a great improvement on the DM5 (which was already fantastic!!) with the range of sounds being more diverse and the quality is superb.

I use this kit for recording and the results are excellent.

Would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in a good electronic kit. In my opinion it beats the Roland TD4 hands down...and will save you a few hundred quid in the process!