{"id":25490,"date":"2020-09-29T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=25490"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T22:56:44","slug":"unboxing-1985-tama-techstar-electronic-drum-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/unboxing-1985-tama-techstar-electronic-drum-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What An Electronic Kit From 1985 Sounds Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a7dgdtT8c3c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine sitting down on your brand new, state-of-the-art electronic drum kit, fan blowing through your freshly-teased hair, acid-washed jeans bright against the sleek black of the geometric pads. Somewhere in the distance, you hear echoes of &#8220;Born In The USA&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not 1985 anymore, and his hair isn&#8217;t teased, but in this video Jared Falk unboxes a barely-used TAMA Techstar kit and takes it for a test drive!<\/p>\n<p>Made in Japan, this vintage kit is still in its original boxes, plastic and styrofoam. Electronic drums were invented in the late &#8217;70s (you might remember the hexagonal pads of the Simmons SDSV) and really gained popularity in the &#8217;80s, so this Techstar was born during electronic drumming&#8217;s prime.<\/p>\n<p>It consists of four TSP100 pads and a kick pad, with circular surfaces on square pads (continuing the geometric pad trend that started in the 70s).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Techstar ad from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/28095515\/1985Techstar2_02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tama.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/28095515\/1985Techstar2_02-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>What better way to get original 1980s electronic samples than to use an original kit from the 1980s?<\/p>\n<p>The module lets you adjust tone, attack and decay, and also has knobs for bend and noise &#8211; nice and simple. This kit doesn&#8217;t come with cymbal pads, a bass drum pedal or throne, so Jared added real cymbals.<\/p>\n<p>The samples we have on modern electronic kits can be pretty realistic, and the samples on the &#8217;85 Techstar sound extremely dated by today&#8217;s standards, but it gives you an idea of a high tech drumming option from the heyday of electronic drum sounds in music. You&#8217;ll sound like a drum machine when you play it!<\/p>\n<p>To watch this kit in action on a Phil Collins cover from 1981 &#8211; yep, the one you&#8217;re thinking of &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/in-the-air-tonight-longest-drum-fill\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/29083112\/Jareds-Loop.wav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a> to download a retro loop track that you can jam along to.<\/p>\n<p>For more unboxings and specs of modern electronic kits, watch the videos inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\">Drumeo<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Jared unbox and test out this barely-used TAMA Techstar electronic drum kit from 1985!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25490"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49490,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490\/revisions\/49490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}