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 Roland PM-01 Personal Monitor |
The Roland PM-01 Personal Monitor is a basic drum monitor suitable for electronic drums. We’ll go over the features and facts a bit later on, but first, here’s a comment from a user review . . . “Good sound, decent output for small room personal sessions” . . . read more (by Rick Lyon, Amazon). |
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Features . . . this is a 15W drum monitor designed to go with the Roland HD-1 electronic drum set (see our reports on that). Users say the sound quality is good, but . . .
The customer complaint was that it’s not loud. One customer said that it was enough volume for practicing alone in a small room, but the general consensus is that it’s not loud enough for playing with a typical band. Of course, this is what you’d expect for something at it’s price level, and customers are saying that it certainly is good value. If you want a louder amp with good sound quality, you are going to have to pay a lot more . . .
Louder Alternatives to the PM-01 include the Roland PM10 which is 30w, the Yamaha MS50DR 50 Watt Electronic Drum Monitor System which has a 50W bass unit and two satelite speakers but hasn’t had any user reviews yet, the Alesis TransActive Drummer Electronic Drum Amplifier which is not well-liked by customers, Simmons DA200S Electronic Drum Set Monitor which is very well-liked by one customer, or if you want to stick with Roland, you could consider the Roland Cube Monitor / PA which gets good reviews from a lot of users but is only 30W so not that much louder than the PM-01.
Don’t forget that you can choose any stage monitor as they’d all be suitable for drum monitoring (according to quality and power, of course), so have a look at some more stage monitors. If you want to use an amp rather than a monitor, don’t forget that guitar and bass amps are specifically designed to color the sound so are not what you need for drum monitoring, and a keyboard amp would be much more suitable as it’s designed to produce an uncolored sound.
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Here’s another user comment from a consumer report by someone who has used the PM-01 in practice . . .
“For the price . . . {snip} . . . there’s no equal. ” . . . read more (by Rick Lyon, Amazon).
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In summary, the PM-01 is fine for practicing alone and well-suited to the HD-1 electronic drum set, so why not check the current Amazon price of the Roland PM-01 Personal Monitor
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