Mesh heads, and the neighbors downstairs · review
The best-specified Alesis on this shelf: a 10-inch dual-zone deep mesh snare, three 10-inch cymbals with choke on ride and crash, a double-kick-capable tower, 36 BFD kits and over 500 sounds.
What it amounts to The largest sound library and the biggest snare in the Alesis range here, with choke on two cymbals and a tower that takes a double pedal. It arrives without a throne or headphones, and its lessons expire after ninety days.
Eight pieces. A 10-inch dual-zone deep mesh snare, three 8-inch mesh toms, and an 8-inch mesh kick tower supporting double kick. Three 10-inch cymbals: hi-hat, ride with choke, crash with choke. A module with 36 BFD kits, 16 user kits and over 500 sounds with multi-velocity samples, plus Zildjian cymbal samples. Bluetooth and USB to BFD Player. In the box: a height-adjustable rack, a cable snake, sticks, a drum key and a power supply.
The snare is where this kit spends its money, and it is the right place. Ten inches, dual-zone so the rim and the head differ, and deep rather than flat — which changes how a stick comes off it. It is the pad that takes most of the playing, and only one kit on this shelf publishes a larger one.
Then choke on two cymbals. A crash is grabbed to stop it, and a pad that senses the grab plays a gesture that is in almost every rock record made. Two of the eleven kits here publish a choke, and this is the one that publishes it twice.
Double kick support on the tower is the third thing the cheaper Alesis kits here do not publish — a second pedal on one pad, which is how a certain kind of playing starts.
The module is the largest on this shelf: 500-plus sounds across 36 BFD kits, with multi-velocity samples, which is what stops every hit sounding identical. The Zildjian samples are in it rather than sold as an expansion, and the Nitro Max on this shelf publishes them too.
What is missing is the box. No throne and no headphones — four kits on this shelf include both, and one of those costs $249. On a $599 kit the seat and the headphones are two more orders.
And the lessons expire. Ninety days of Drumeo, where two kits here publish 100 Melodics lessons kept for good and one publishes that there is no subscription at all.
No assembled dimensions, which is the figure one kit on this shelf publishes and ten do not.
The product record gives 22,300 g (786.6 oz).
Read on the day this page was built: $599 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Configuration | 8-piece: a 10 in dual-zone deep mesh snare, 3 × 8 in mesh toms, and an 8 in mesh kick tower supporting double kick |
|---|---|
| Cymbals | Three at 10 in — hi-hat, ride with choke and crash with choke |
| Module | 36 ready-to-play BFD kits, 16 user kits, 500+ drum, cymbal and percussion sounds with multi-velocity samples |
| Cymbal samples | Authentic Zildjian sounds in the module, with more available as BFD expansion packs. The Nitro Max on this shelf publishes Zildjian samples too |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth, and USB to PC or Mac to unlock BFD Player for recording into a DAW |
| Lessons | 90-day access to Drumeo with 200-plus drummers and 5,000-plus songs, plus BFD Player |
| In the box | Height-adjustable rack, hard-wearing cable snake, drumsticks, drum key, power supply. No throne and no headphones are published |
| Heads | Alesis mesh, described as ultra-quiet |
| Assembled size | Alesis puts nothing in writing on this. |
| Manufacturer reference | NITROPROKIT |
| Amazon reference | B0DB5TMZ9S |
| EAN | 0694318026410 |
By four published figures. The Nitro Max has 32 BFD kits and 440-plus sounds; this has 36 kits and 500-plus. This publishes choke on both the ride and the crash and a kick tower supporting double kick, and it publishes its snare as deep as well as 10-inch and dual-zone. Both publish Zildjian samples, Bluetooth and USB to BFD Player. Neither publishes a throne or headphones, and neither publishes its assembled size.
It is three months of a subscription that then costs money, and it is worth knowing that before the card is entered. Two kits on this shelf publish 100 Melodics lessons kept for good, and one publishes that its lessons carry no subscription at all. Ninety days of 5,000 songs is more material than three months can absorb; what it is not is a permanent library.
Shown because the accessory names this instrument itself.
Details checked on October 7, 2026.
A player past the first year who wants a 10-inch snare, choke cymbals and a path into recording.
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 400.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for musical instruments and gear and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
8-piece mesh · 10" snare · Bluetooth · BFD sounds
An eight-piece mesh kit with a 10-inch dual-zone snare, three 8-inch toms, three cymbals and a kick tower with pedal, on a folding rack — with Zildjian cymbal samples and Bluetooth in the module.
Best for: A serious first kit that will be recorded as well as practiced on.
≈ $400
16 in wooden kick · 12 in wooden snare · two-piece hi-hat · silicone cymbals · 460 voices
The only kit on this shelf with wooden shells: a 16-inch wooden kick drum, a 12-inch dual-zone wooden snare and a genuine two-piece hi-hat with separate top and bottom cymbals.
Best for: A drummer moving from an acoustic kit who wants the shells, the snare size and the hi-hat action to feel like the one they left.
7-piece mesh · 10 kits · 30 play-along tracks
The smaller Alesis mesh kit: an 8-inch snare, three 8-inch mesh toms, three 10-inch cymbals and Alesis-made hi-hat and kick pedals, with a steel rack and 100 free Melodics lessons.
Best for: A first kit for a child or a beginner where mesh heads matter more than sound count.
