Acoustic bassdrum + Technology

Over the last year or so I have been experimenting with the Roland TDW-20 series digital drumkit. I love the sounds that this monster has and if you have the time you can get almost any sound that you can imagine. The way you play and get inspired completely changes just like going from a monster drumkit with double bassdrum to a little 4 or 5 piece jazz kit. You get inspired to play completely different. There are however a few things missing from the digital over an acoustic drumkit. When you hit a bassdrum, there is an air movement from within the drum that resonates outwards that you feel. It hits you in the gut but it feels good, hell yeah! With digital the sound is there but the air movement is not.
What does any of this have to do with acoustic + technology you might ask?

Well I just aquired an acoustic black Sonor 18" x 16" Force maple shell bassdrum. When you hear the sound this makes it gives you chills, lots of punch with great overtones but wouldn't it be great to combine that sweet sound with some nice layers of a much deeper bassdrum. Well I also just bought a Roland RT-10K trigger (pic to the right). Man this this is awesome and simplistic to use. It just clips to the inside rim of the bassdrum and you adjust the sensitivity on the brain and works with the TDW-20 brain. It also now allows me to have that feel of the real bassdrum plus that awesome sound that comes out of it as well as allowing me to add whatever bassdrum sound I want to add from the digital TDW-20 brain. Now I can layer whatever other sounds that I want with this acoustic bassdrum. You get the best of both worlds all wrapped up in todays technology. The possibilities are truly endless when you combine both into a drumkit. Back in the 80s there were never really these options that you could choose from or at least not very good options. Today if you do not embrace what is in the marketplace you might just get left behind depending on what or who you are playing with.
Some drummers might never require this technology for their sound but what harm does it do to just know that this exists in the event that you might need this someday. You only become way more versatile with your own unique sound. Man this is really cool!!!!!!!
Stay tuned or go phlat ........