Mesh heads, and the neighbors downstairs · review
A seven-piece mesh kit with Bluetooth for playing along, twist-tension drumheads, a throne, headphones and sticks in the box, and 100 Melodics lessons kept for good.
What it amounts to Arrives complete — throne, headphones, sticks, adapter — with Bluetooth for playing along, mesh heads whose tension can be set, and lessons that are kept rather than rented. The pads are 8 inches throughout, which is where the money went instead.
Seven pieces: four 8-inch mesh drumheads, three 8-inch cymbals, full-size kick and hi-hat pedals. 12 kits, 110 sounds. Bluetooth. Twist-tension mesh heads. USB MIDI, stereo quarter-inch line outs and a headphone output. And in the box: the module, headphones, drumsticks, a drum throne and a power adapter, plus 100 Melodics lessons kept for good.
The box is the argument. A kit without a throne is a kit played from a dining chair at the wrong height; a kit without sticks cannot be played at all; a kit without headphones defeats the point of buying a quiet one. Four kits on this shelf publish all three and this is one of them.
The twist-tension heads are the detail that nothing else here publishes. A mesh head under tension behaves like a tuned acoustic head — tight and fast, or loose and deep — and being able to set that is worth more after six months than another fifty sounds. Alesis makes the comparison itself: just like an acoustic drum set.
Bluetooth does one thing and does it well: music or a lesson plays into the module, so a player hears the track and the kit in the same headphones at the same level. Three kits on this shelf publish it.
USB MIDI is the other connection worth having. It makes the kit a controller for drum software, which is how a practice kit becomes a recording instrument without replacing anything.
What the money did not buy is pad size. Everything is 8 inches: four heads, three cymbals. Three kits on this shelf publish a 10-inch snare and one publishes a 12-inch wooden one, and the snare is the pad that takes most of the playing. The hi-hat here is a pedal and a pad rather than the two-piece top-and-bottom arrangement one kit on this shelf publishes.
And no assembled dimensions, which on a kit sold as space-saving is the figure a reader in a small flat actually needs. One kit on this shelf publishes its footprint; ten do not.
The product record gives 10,600 g (373.9 oz).
Read on the day this page was built: $249 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 | 7-piece: 4 × 8 in mesh drumheads and 3 × 8 in cymbals, with full-size kick and hi-hat pedals |
|---|---|
| Heads | Mesh, with twist-tension adjustment, which Alesis states lets the feel be set as on an acoustic kit |
| Module | 12 custom kits, classic and modern, with 110 individual sounds |
| Bluetooth | Streams music or lesson content from any Bluetooth device straight into the module — one of three kits on this shelf with it |
| Connectivity | Headphone output, stereo 1/4 in line outputs for an amp or mixer, and USB MIDI to control VST software and record |
| In the box | Module, kit components, headphones, drumsticks, drum throne, power adapter, quickstart guide, software download card |
| Lessons | 100 Melodics lessons kept for good, plus a 30-day Premium trial |
| Rack | Full-height adjustable, foldable and space-saving |
| Assembled size | Alesis puts nothing in writing on this. One kit on this shelf publishes 102 × 117 × 46 cm (40.2 × 46.1 × 18.1 in) |
| Manufacturer reference | TURBOMAX |
| Amazon reference | B0FC6D7WL4 |
| EAN | 0694318026861 |
How hard the stick has to work and how far it bounces. On an acoustic kit the head is tuned with a key; a mesh head with twist-tension does the same thing, so a player who wants a tight, fast rebound can have it and one who wants a looser feel can too. It is the only tension adjustment published on this shelf, and it matters more over a year than a sound count does.
No. The Turbo Mesh Kit is published separately on this shelf with 10 kits and 100-plus sounds and no Bluetooth. This is the Turbo Max: 12 kits, 110 sounds, Bluetooth, twist-tension heads, a throne and headphones in the box, and 100 Melodics lessons. They are two models in one range, and the Max is the one that arrives complete.
Shown because the accessory names this instrument itself.
Details checked on October 7, 2026.
A first kit that arrives complete, where Bluetooth play-along and an adjustable head feel matter more than pad size.
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 200.
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.
