Well, I made a small post when I first bought my kit; however, I never formally introduced myself. I wanted to officially say hi and show some pictures of my setup.
My name is Chris and I am from Palm Bay, FL. I am 37 and have a wife and three kids (17, 15, and 13). I have not played drums since 1985 when I sold my 11 piece Pearl set, which helped finance my first car. I got the game Rock Band for my teenagers and the drum bug bit me really hard, so I started looking for a new set. A's were out of the question due to noise issues, so I started reading and reading and reading 100's of threads on this forum.
I came close to buying a TD12 set but the smaller toms just didn’t fit me. The next week, I found a T10 expanded set on craigslist for $1800. I was able to snatch it the same day it was listed. Once I got the kit home, the hard part came... finding a place to put it while maintaining WAF (wife acceptance factor). Oddly enough, the set ended up in the living room in front of the bay window. When you walk into my house, you have to look to the right and behind you to see the drums. This actually turned out to be the most inconspicuous place in the houe. Believe it or not, I have actually had people come over and not notice them until they were leaving - just what the wife wanted
I do have to play when she is not watching TV but she has been very gracious with my practice time.... more so than I had ever imagined. I will probably move them out to the garage in the winter but summers in FL are just too unbearable in the garage. I mainly play via headphones, but I do have the module connected into my Denon receiver. They really sound great on the home theater setup which has a nice meaty 15" sub.
Future plans - I have already purchased a pearl eliminator double base pedal and ordered the midi USB cable to install the vexpression kits. I want to move the Roland cy15r ride to be a crash and get a 16" black Hart for the ride. I don’t really care for the Roland ride at all. I also plan to get a VH-11 and possibly upgrade to a TD20 but I am going to rock the TD10ex for awhile. I ordered several DVD packs for instruction. I never learned to read music before, but I plan to do so this time around.
Well, sorry for the short novel. I look forward to making some new friends here.
Here are some pics of my setup.

I know, the cables are a mess. I bought some velcro and zip ties to neaten things up but I haven't done so yet.

These are the speakers that I have the Rolands running through. The kit actually sounds really nice in 5ch stereo.
My name is Chris and I am from Palm Bay, FL. I am 37 and have a wife and three kids (17, 15, and 13). I have not played drums since 1985 when I sold my 11 piece Pearl set, which helped finance my first car. I got the game Rock Band for my teenagers and the drum bug bit me really hard, so I started looking for a new set. A's were out of the question due to noise issues, so I started reading and reading and reading 100's of threads on this forum.
I came close to buying a TD12 set but the smaller toms just didn’t fit me. The next week, I found a T10 expanded set on craigslist for $1800. I was able to snatch it the same day it was listed. Once I got the kit home, the hard part came... finding a place to put it while maintaining WAF (wife acceptance factor). Oddly enough, the set ended up in the living room in front of the bay window. When you walk into my house, you have to look to the right and behind you to see the drums. This actually turned out to be the most inconspicuous place in the houe. Believe it or not, I have actually had people come over and not notice them until they were leaving - just what the wife wanted

I do have to play when she is not watching TV but she has been very gracious with my practice time.... more so than I had ever imagined. I will probably move them out to the garage in the winter but summers in FL are just too unbearable in the garage. I mainly play via headphones, but I do have the module connected into my Denon receiver. They really sound great on the home theater setup which has a nice meaty 15" sub.
Future plans - I have already purchased a pearl eliminator double base pedal and ordered the midi USB cable to install the vexpression kits. I want to move the Roland cy15r ride to be a crash and get a 16" black Hart for the ride. I don’t really care for the Roland ride at all. I also plan to get a VH-11 and possibly upgrade to a TD20 but I am going to rock the TD10ex for awhile. I ordered several DVD packs for instruction. I never learned to read music before, but I plan to do so this time around.
Well, sorry for the short novel. I look forward to making some new friends here.
Here are some pics of my setup.

I know, the cables are a mess. I bought some velcro and zip ties to neaten things up but I haven't done so yet.

These are the speakers that I have the Rolands running through. The kit actually sounds really nice in 5ch stereo.

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