Im most worried about the kick drum trigger as the snare wotn be triggered allthough the toms might be? not sure yet but i need to use it for really fast double bass and i want triggers that wont miss trigger so should i just buy the pro bass drum trigger?Farview said:The redshot kick triggers don't work as well. I haven't tried the others redshots.
Farview said:...If your drummer rests his beater against the head when he isn't hitting, that will cause mistriggers.
allright thanks, my bass drum has a sleeping bag in it at the moment so its pretty dead. Do you know anything about the roland bass drum triggers? ThanksFarview said:The only way to get them to work well on really fast double bass is to stuff the kick drum. If you are trying to get a good mic'd kick sound at the same time, forget it.
The pro triggers work well no matter how the drum is tuned or how dead the head is.
If your drummer rests his beater against the head when he isn't hitting, that will cause mistriggers.
So........Redshot triggers work great on your kick if you go through all that?????!!!!!!!RawDepth said:I didn't have that problem. My module has a sensitivity adjustment to prevent this. If you set it higher, it acts like a "threshold" setting that the intensity of the drum hit must go over before it will trigger. I tweaked it for my playing style.
Furthermore, I placed the trigger (the round flat type) so it is sandwiched between two pieces of 4" thick foam under the head. The first piece of foam touches the drum head snugly to deaden it. Then the trigger is attached to an 8" round rigid plate to make it more sensitive under all that foam. Then 4 more inches of foam completes the sandwich. I glued it all together except for an access passage way to service the trigger.
Both pieces of foam are cut slightly larger than the inside diameter of the drum so it all stays in place by friction. I could remove it without having any damage to the drum.
I originally tried using a mesh head on the kick with a trigger on the outside, but my beater just tore a hole in that head in about three days. Then I tried applying a stick-on beater pad but it wouldn't stay on. I went back to using a conventional drumhead with the foam sandwich thing on the inside. It has been working well for about 4 or 5 years now.
The Ddrum pro triggers are the way to go.breeeeza said:allright thanks, my bass drum has a sleeping bag in it at the moment so its pretty dead. Do you know anything about the roland bass drum triggers? Thanks
Allright thanks alotFarview said:The Ddrum pro triggers are the way to go.
Farview said:So........Redshot triggers work great on your kick if you go through all that?????!!!!!!!
You could have just gotten the pro triggers and you wouldn't need 8 inches of foam and a ridgid plate. Just spend the extra $20 for crissakes.
I've been usingthe pro triggers since the 80's. They aren't new. The redshots haven't been around for that long.RawDepth said:Well I would have, except the Pro triggers didn't exist 5 years ago. The more I think about it that was not a redshot either. All the rest of my triggers on the kit are, though.
I wanted to deaden the drum anyway, so it made perfect sense.
This is the 5 pack that I bought five years ago. I didn’t know about the other ones at the time if they did exist.Farview said:I've been usingthe pro triggers since the 80's. They aren't new. The redshots haven't been around for that long.
Those are the redshots.RawDepth said:This is the 5 pack that I bought five years ago. I didn’t know about the other ones at the time if they did exist.
Oh well.
But yes, my point was, they work good and they work best on mesh heads.
RawDepth said:I originally tried using a mesh head on the kick with a trigger on the outside, but my beater just tore a hole in that head in about three days. Then I tried applying a stick-on beater pad but it wouldn't stay on.