Our drummer has both an electric kit and an acoustic kit. The electric kit is superior in all of these aspects:
- you can get 1,000 different sounds out of it
- you can turn the drums down or up in the mix
- the load in and out is an absolute piece of cake
My heart always drops when he turns up with his acoustic kit and I know that we're going to have to crank everything to keep up with him, that's only after he's taken 45 minutes to set the flaming thing up.