GEAR REVIEW
YAMAHA EAD10 | Carl Albrecht
KEY FEATURES
the best that Yamaha has put into a product.
all the features of each scene to create very
usable drum mixes in every type of setting.
• Stereo Mic & Kick Drum Trigger You can also use the built-in metronome to There are 50 preset scenes and 200 user
• “Aux-in” to Play with Tracks play along with for your workout. Another great scenes that you can save as your own personal
feature with the free app, Rec’N’Share, is that favorite drum kit sounds. In the real world you
• 50 Preset Scenes / 200 User Ones
you can add songs to it from your iTunes or probably only need one or several great kits to
• 127 kicks, 77 snares, 76 toms, 70
cymbals Dropbox library and the app will find the tempo cover a set of songs. The fact that you could
of your song so the built-in metronome will line save 200 user scenes is more than enough. I
• Effect Knob & Reverb Knob up with your music. You can even change the could use the EAD10 to create new concepts in
tempo of the song once the app has mapped drumming for songs, film and video scoring, or
Yamaha has done it again. Amazing! The it out, and loop sections of songs to practice cinematic ideas. Anyway, this gets way beyond
EAD10, which means “Electronic-Acoustic difficult passages. That is an awesome bonus the simpler options for the device. So let’s turn
Drum” Module, comes with the “stereo feature! Plus the app can be used to make back to the basic greatness of the EAD10.
microphone and kick drum trigger” built into videos to share on social media platforms.
The stereo microphone and kick trigger in one
one device. You just clamp it on the top of the
kick drum hoop, hook up the cables into the If there has ever been a drum device that is user device works great. But as an added bonus I
module… then run your output cables to your friendly and yet combines many professional do recommend adding the dual snare trigger
mixer with one for mono or two for stereo. I do features… this is it. For small venues, churches, for another $50.00. What it brings to the sonic
recommend using a direct box just to keep the and even large events the EAD10 sounds table is worth the investment. Sure you could
signal as clean as possible. And bam… you are amazing. For my review I worked with it in do without it. I did test the EAD10 on it’s own
ready to go. the studio and live events where the engineer and loved it. But when I added the extra snare
enjoyed using it to add effects and triggered trigger it was really the icing on the cake. For
If you’re using the EAD10 just to practice with, samples to the existing mix. I can see this going the basic set up it cost about $500.00. Which
you can just use headphones directly into the with me to more live events. As I researched is a great price considering what it covers. You
module and plug in any device to the “aux in” to other reviews the reports on its’ live application don’t need other mics, cables, stands, and a
play along with tracks. In a live band setting you were all very positive. larger mixing console. So adding the extra
snare trigger does not feel like you’re breaking
could use this “aux in” to receive your monitor
mix with existing microphones and then blend Without using any other mic-ing setups the
in your drums more from the EAD10. It really sound alone from the EAD10 works really well.
beefs up the sound. The headphone amp is one The sonic quality is superb. You can adjust
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May 2019
the piggy bank.
In each scene, you can adjust how much of
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