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I see where your comin from robin, personally i'll only use my trigger when I really need it which will be very rarely lookin at my currently empty as fuck gig calendar. However its like saying an acoustic guitar through a distortion pedal will do just the job a spiky jackson will do....well not really but thhe whole triggered consistent sound is necessary imo in that style of music. Its like putting a jazz drummer on a kit with a 24 inch kick and big rock cymbals, just sounds and feels wrong.
The thing is, bass drums are big fuckers, they have a lot of air floatin about them, you need to tune them very slack in order to get a good sound thus creating no rebound making it harder to put more power in, when you play fast on a bass drum due to all of the above it sounds like a muffled mess. If you padded it a lot it would make it cleaner, but then your bassdrum will sound shite (sorry ian) Triggers are just more efficient, convenient, and in certain styles of music downright neccesary!
I would consider my bass drum work to be one of my better points, its powerful, clean, yadda yadda but when playing on a large un-muffled kick drum it doesnt come through, once i move above 180 bpm it starts to be a bit muffled sounding, 200 bpm and its a low hum yet with triggers it sounds precise cos the triggers seperate each single beat and make it clearer.
You try play double bass above 200 bpm on a single bassdrum and tell me that it cuts through?
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