Ash Grunwald

“I mainly use the V Drums for stage,” he says, “but I am almost thinking right now of going back to an old approach, where I would play like I would live in the studio and use that for the basis of my song ideas. In that case, I think I would use my proper live set up. At various times I have use the V Drums a lot over the years. At the moment I am using the Roland MIDI converter (TMC-6), so it doesn’t have to brain with the drum sounds. It converts your hits on the drums to MIDI, then I trigger them from Ableton Live on the computer. It’s pretty fun!”

“I have two set ups basically at the moment. I have a kick drum with the Roland kick pad, the one with the mesh on it (KD-9), it has a really cool action. Ultimately I like to use a proper kick drum and blend the sounds."

"I just use the Roland kick trigger (KD-7). Then I also have a separate kick set up. It’s like a kick drum but the beater is bent downwards and the pad is on the floor. It doesn’t stand up like a kick pad. I use that for a “Dooo” kind of sound. Then I have a kick trigger on my cajon, which I use to get my snare sound. Sometimes when I can’t travel with my cajon, I just use another Roland kick trigger to get a snare kind of sound. So you’re getting the kick and snare with that added low bass, that 808 “Dooo” sound.”