If you're finishing your basement, build a small drum room and soundproof it. Use mics to record. For the cost of the Roland kit, you can afford a reasonably-priced acoustic, mics, cables, and the material to build and soundproof the room.

I've owned a Roland set in the past, and I sold it after a year or so. There's nothing like an acoustic kit for sound and feel. I have two. There's a reason that 99% of stage shows and studio recordings are acoustic kits. Church kits may be the exception. I'm not counting double-bass triggered metal.

I know that the convenience of being able to play along with a track, or easily record the output of the kit, or change kits seem like huge advantages. They aren't in the long run. Once you realize that you don't really need to change kits that often, and the novelty wears off, you'll be stuck with an electronic-sounding kit that is hard to get rid of. Play a drum roll on the snare without any backing noise. Try to ride one of the crash cymbals hard.

Go watch a Tony Royster youtube video of him on a Roland kit. He plays fast, and you can hear the "trigger-ish" sounds as he plays. You can't get rid of that.

tl;dr: Get an acoustic kit.

I've always felt that V-Drums are more of a novelty, allowing quiet practice with the feel and semi-sound of an acoustic kit. If you already have the real kit, then the V-Drums aren't a terrible idea.

Anything that encourages practice is great in my book.

This breaks my heart.

The thought of stacking my drums for 7 years is impossible to imagine. Sorry, kids. Dad's playing.

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