Ion iED05 USB Digital Drum Kit *SALE WAS �129*

+ Looks cool. Potentially could be very good.

- Took 3-4 hours to put together. Not necessarily a bad thing but could have been better. The snare drum sounds like a wet sock in a washing machine - absolutely awful. I haven't seen if there's an update available yet, maybe this will rectify the problem, but what a massive design flaw to be sold with.

+ For the price of a cymbal this kit is great!

- No rim shots, and sound not perfect.

+ Easy to use, nice and small. Great for practicing at home.

- Takes a while to put together but not too bad. The drum sounds are a bit tinny.

+ Able to play without too much noise to others, ability to integrate into host of recording/mixing software

- Using included software, pads still have to be hit quite hard to produce a sound

+ not too bulky, sounds pretty good

- it's kind of a pain that you have to boot pc/programme etc any time you want to use it, and we found the software can often take 5 mins to recognise the kit (or not at all occasionally). it's not as quiet as you think. a 5 year old thwacking hell out of these pads is pretty noisy to be in the room or nearby! - by that i mean the actual sound of the sticks on the pads, not the drum sounds