This post is a continuation of “The Lost or Long Forgotten Concept?” Again, there are a few thing to keep in mind when viewing these concept drawings: Continue reading this post…

I have been playing around with the idea of using the Alesis SR18 and Trigger I/O together as a drum module. You can read my original post entitled “Make A Modular Module?“. While working with this set-up today, I thought I might check Alesis for software updates for the SR18. Continue reading this post…

A friend of mine was asking the other day if I had idea’s for electronic drums that I never did anything with. I told him “yes, quite a few”.  After that short conversation, I decided to dig out some of my old hand sketches and cad drawings.  While I was looking at these old idea’s a thought came to me, maybe this would make an interesting set of posts on the Hellfire web site.  Well, here is the first post in this new category, and Continue reading this post…

The entry level edrum market seems to be getting more interesting by the month.  As time go on, more entry level edrum sets are getting more and more unique.  I believe this is because Medeli is now custom manufacturing electronic drum sets based on customer (distributors) request. I first suspected this when the Simmons SD9K was released.  Now, with the new SoundX SMI-1458 release, I feel more confident with this suspicion.

Here it is, the new SoundX electronic drum set Model #1458. First off, the pictures used here are from an ebay sellers page (maineboater).  This is because drum set is so new that the companies own website doesn’t have information up as of the writing of this post.

The drum set is distributed by The Singing Machine company. They call their edrums brand “SoundX”.  They are some what new to the edrumming seen however, they have Continue reading this post…

I found that I tend to search the web quit a lot for drums tabs. I do this, so I can compare how I play a cover song with how others play those cover songs. After looking for some tabs last night I Continue reading this post…