Boom! Love it.
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Iāve come to enjoy the process but I really like tuning stuff in general. However with drums (kit drums) there are caveats. I hate doing it at band practice or whenever there are other people around making noise as itās so much more difficult. Also, if the shells are out of round or the heads are too worn out/ dented youāre not going to do better than a pleasant thud.
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If you have your Rudiments together 
look for an Roland SPD 30, the Octapad, Tons of Sounds and Effects inside. You can connect some extra Pads and Foot Controllers for BD & HiHat!
If youāre thinking about heading down the electronic kit route, 2Box is great. Excellent bang for your buck, itās easy enough to load in custom samples, and if you own BFD3 you can convert all of those kits.
The only thing I have any issue with is the hi-hat. Seems like I have to calibrate it every time I use it. But mine is a bit older and I got it used, so maybe newer kits donāt have this problem.
The reason I love it the most is that you donāt get any machine gunning of the samples. Every stroke sounds so good. One of the reasons I stayed away from the older V-Drums and Yamaha kits was that they just didnāt sound natural.
EDIT: I just looked up recent prices for their stuff and itās gone through the roof! I think I paid like $800 for the brain, snare, kick, 4 toms, and 3 cymbals four or five years agoā¦
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@AlmaxMere, how many of 2Boxās Drumit modulesā hi hat articulations can be addressed directly and separately by MIDI note number? I want to use a Drumit 5 MKII as a drum module with a triggers-only controller and no pedal to control the hatās state. In that case, Iād need separate MIDI numbers for different hat articulations. Rolandās TD-50, for example, provides 5 with separately assignable MIDI note numbers: pedal, open edge, closed edge, open bow, and closed bow.
If you happen to know the same info for Pearlās Mimic Proāwhich seems to have only three articulations per padāIād be interested in that, too.
I am just guessing here, but my 2Box has all of those zones, so five sounds right. Although Iām not sure if theyāre accessible directly and separately by MIDI note number. Hell, I canāt even remember which brain mine has.
I donāt have time to comb through it right now, but hereās the manual. Hope it helps!
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Thanks. Iāve got that manual and the Mimic Proās, too, but they just donāt clarify things for my unusual use case. Neither does the TD-50ās, but I know that device from experience.
Iām looking to improve on the TD-50, by the way, either footprint or user interface in a dark and cramped location. Soundwise, I expect it comes down to personal preference, with neither of these devices having an edge.