I was convinced to get a KD-8 pad because I had heard these KD-120 mesh pads got too much bounce to use as a reliable bass drum due to the difficulty in controlling the beater's rebound. After having used both now, I would recommend this one without question. It's quieter with a much nicer noise, and it's bigger and sturdier. It does get an awful lot of bounce, but if you simply wrap your beater heads with some cloth, you can eliminate that completely if it bothers you.

I bought the Roland KD-120 kick pad to accommodate a double kick pedal I wanted to use with my Yamaha DTX kit. The Roland kick pad was easy to assemble, it only took about 5 minutes to pull it out of the box, assemble, and hook-up with my existing kit. You may need to adjust a little to fit the kick pedal exactly how you want it, but that didn

I've played a number of different kick triggers from several different manufacturers, and this is far and away the most solid, realistic feeling electronic kick trigger. It's so expensive it makes me want to slap sombody, but its money well spent nonetheless.

that's the best way to describe this pad. Not only is there no mistriggering, but it's built like a tank. I actually prefer this over an acoustic bass drum, and look foward to buying another one to use as a second kick.