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First, I'd like to say thankyou for this forum and to everyone who has contributed to it... it's an absolute gold-mine of information. Using the info I found here I have just created 3 new tom and a snare trigger for my TD-6 based kit.
I bought a pair of ex-display Stag 10" toms for about £3 each (both of which I cut in half horizontally giving me 3 shallow toms and a spare half-shell that is being converted into a subkick microphone for use in my studio), a used Stagg 13x3.5" Piccolo snare, a pair of 13" mesh heads and a slection of peizo triggers off eBay... got some 10" mesh heads from an online store and a selection of aluminium extrusion, steel brackets and nuts & bolts from my local DIY store: Homebase (in the UK). Total outlay was around £100 to build 3 toms and a snare trigger. I used some XLR sockets and cable I already had. My little "splurge" was to buy 3 heavy duty tom mounts from Highwood Drums (at an extra cost of £40 - and they are superb!). All the construction techniques were gleaned from this forum... I especially liked the idea of using bolts to make a variable height platform for the piezos so that the foam cones could be adjusted to make lighter or heavier contact with the mesh heads.
The kit is comprised of: Roland TD-6, Millenium 1.5" steel tube rack, the new 3x10" DIY tom tirggers and 13" DIY snare trigger, Millenium MPS300 kick drum pad, Millenium double bass drum pedal, Roland CY-8 (for ride), CY-5 & FD-8 (for HiHat), 2 x Millenium Stereo cymbal pads. The kit is used mainly for programming drums using BFD2 in Cubase 4 when writing & recording and also for band rehearsals with the covers band in which I play keyboards
The photos:
Dave
I bought a pair of ex-display Stag 10" toms for about £3 each (both of which I cut in half horizontally giving me 3 shallow toms and a spare half-shell that is being converted into a subkick microphone for use in my studio), a used Stagg 13x3.5" Piccolo snare, a pair of 13" mesh heads and a slection of peizo triggers off eBay... got some 10" mesh heads from an online store and a selection of aluminium extrusion, steel brackets and nuts & bolts from my local DIY store: Homebase (in the UK). Total outlay was around £100 to build 3 toms and a snare trigger. I used some XLR sockets and cable I already had. My little "splurge" was to buy 3 heavy duty tom mounts from Highwood Drums (at an extra cost of £40 - and they are superb!). All the construction techniques were gleaned from this forum... I especially liked the idea of using bolts to make a variable height platform for the piezos so that the foam cones could be adjusted to make lighter or heavier contact with the mesh heads.
The kit is comprised of: Roland TD-6, Millenium 1.5" steel tube rack, the new 3x10" DIY tom tirggers and 13" DIY snare trigger, Millenium MPS300 kick drum pad, Millenium double bass drum pedal, Roland CY-8 (for ride), CY-5 & FD-8 (for HiHat), 2 x Millenium Stereo cymbal pads. The kit is used mainly for programming drums using BFD2 in Cubase 4 when writing & recording and also for band rehearsals with the covers band in which I play keyboards
The photos:
Dave
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