Home made triggers

[Mark King]

Picture of simple but effective home made trigger. The stereo 3.5mm jack wedged into the air hole making a very neat solution

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

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[Mark King]

And another view. The big foam pad seems to act as a good isolator

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

[Mark King]

Top veiw of snare with mesh head. By the way there are very few who sell mesh heads in the UK. These heads are ok but a bit boucy and need damping.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

[Mark King]

I thought I would have a go at removing the ddrum4 cast precision heads and use redshot triggers on mesh. Works really well although on the flor tom I have made a central trigger based on the simple one by PFozz where the trigger is just sandwiched in a piece of foam. That also works really well on the cast pads. I’m using the alesis IO for the extras. The ddrum4 module has all the toms, Hi-hat, Bass drum, Ride and one cymbal. The io so far has the rim and three cymbals.
I’m still working on the kit and if I can source some foam like I used on the snare trigger I may try a few more designs.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

[Mark King]

Read the dimensions for the roland cone. Although I cant find any foam with the correct depth I have managed to to get the tip to 7mm out of a round disk I got in a hardware shop. No idea what it was for and neither did the shop keeper. This is the only foam I could find that works well. The bit at the bottom is what was left from cutting out the cone. I used it to fiem up the base and keep the tower stable. The triggering is incredibly good from tiny ghost notes to hard hits using a 27mm Maplin pizo (79p) I would idealy like to get the same foam as Roland use but a search on the internet has not shown me anything other than roland no longer sell the cones.

Any ideas? I think I just want to try them out to see if there is a difference. Mine works really well although there is a hot spot where the cone touches the head. I’m guessing 7mm is about as small as you can go without it being dameged too easely.

SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors

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