Customer Reviews

Yamaha DD35AD Touch-Sensitive Digital Drums with Guide Lights and AC Adapter

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I bought this for my 18 year old brother who is learning to play the guitar, and I've gotten nothing but positive feedback from home where he and my other younger siblings have been having a good time learning to play the drums.

I took 1 star away because I was hoping it could be used as a drum machine, but apparently it stores less than a minute of performance, making it inappropriate for a single person to play both the drums and guitar, and it has limited drum machine functionality. Still, it has a high fun to price ratio, and I was glad to give such a well appreciated gift.

I bought the DD-35 machine last year, It has a great digital drum sound..I play it through my head phones along with my cd player.BUT!...be warned..This machine startes to short out after about six weeks of steady playing!..I returned it to the music store for another, several weeks later the same thing. Then I ordered one from amazon,I discovered the only way to over-come this problem was to remove the rubber drum pads and place them on a SEPARATE playing platform...that way the electronics don't take a banging and short out..I had to lenthen the wires from the drum machine to another playing board. but now it should last many years this way...Yamaha should design this machine with a separate playing surface.But all and all..a good sounding drum machine.So with all that being said..it really deserves only a couple stars.

I bought this Digital Drum for my fidgety 14 year old daughter. She is always beating on something, and I thought that she would really enjoy this! She did, and all of her friends want one now! I look forward to hearing her really get going on it!

This item was given to my son for a gift since we did not have room for an actual drum set. In our opinion it is basically a toy and not a replacement for drums. He did not use it much so we actually ended up getting him a drum set.

I bought this as a gift to my Grand-daughter. She loves it and because of the ability to use headphones, so does her mom and dad.

I received this set as a gift about two years ago, and am still pretty satisfied with it. However, the AC Adaptor stopped working after about 8 months. I got a new adaptor, and that didn't help. It turns out that the input jack for the adaptor came loose after 8 months of being jolted around every time the pads are struck. Luckily, it does come with a space for battery back-up, so you can put in six AAs and it will work.

WORD OF WARNING, HOWEVER; the batteries run out very quickly, even with top-of-the-line batteries. But, overall, it's not a bad item.