Voil nearly a year I use this drumkit. Its versatility is both a boon and a handicap. If your land-locked in a genre, it may not illustrate it vritablement. But it would be surprising, for, as a 6-ply poplar, it is both hot and round, but with good projection and precision.
If I had a clown drumkit any prior notice (and this for 10 years!), I was able, before purchasing the ELX, playing on other kits and compare to other brands. If this Pearl, despite excellent finishing varnish, do not offer the "class" Gretsch, Yamaha, it remains a very VOCATIONAL sonority while adding a touch (that others do not) : a simplicity of utlisation and outstanding invoice.
Indeed, one feels the expertise of the brand, thanks to a quite modern and very useful technicality (the pedal box, or with the presence of peaks in the rubber supports GC and charley) and thanks to a reliability and solidity that have impressed me. And know-how, other brands difference (not all thankfully!) Is widely affordable for the quality brings.

Thus, if the lack of innovation and modernity are sometimes feel the ELX, by its sonority and reliability still represents for me a great drumkit, perfectly fits the stage and the regular use or force!