Here's a link to my first DIY kit. It's excessively long but filled with all sorts of tidbits and kernels of knowledge I gained from the experience. I've yet to take the time to go back and produce a concise list of that knowledge like I originally wanted due to the non-stop buying, selling, and converting.
Which is a great segue to this new thread....
Thanks to way too much time trolling Craigslist I compiled the following kit by purchasing two different kits and selling off what I didn't want, namely a horrible, HORRIBLE Sound Percussion beginners kit that mysteriously has an near new set of Paiste 802's on it. It was like a rust-bucket car with, for whatever reason, shiny chromies on it.
The drum set I'm keeping was purchased cheap off an undergrad leaving the state in a few days. Buying and selling is almost more fun for me than owning stuff sometimes. It's like the thrill of the hunt or something. I keep trying to figure out how I could turn it into a side business buying cheap and selling high. Anyway, digressing yet again...
Pearl Export Jazz (though I wouldn't know myself)
22" kick
10/12/14 toms, no ISS mounts (which I personally dislike)
14" metal snare
All older, but totally solid, Pearl hardware: hh, boom, straight
20" Paiste 802 ride
18" Paiste Alpha crash
8" Zildjan A series splash
Paiste 802 14" hats
Only thing missing is claws and head for the front of the bass, and a rubber foot on one of the bass spurs. It's also due for a seriously good cleaning. I had to wash my hands like 10 times while assembling it. I don't think it was dusted or wiped down since it was bought or something. It's not pitted or damaged, just grimy.
I plan to probably add another crash and a china and a cowbell at some point in the [probably very] near future just so it'll look cool. It's all about the looks, baby! Well, that's part of it, anyway. And so I won't have a china playing when I accidentally hit my tom rims for the 100th time. haha Though after actually learning to play I'll stop hitting the rims so much, I'm sure.
I'm hoping my knowledge from the first DIY and the fact there's no giant flappy 16" floor tom will help me achieve perfection with my triggers. I will still use a Trigger IO for the initial build, then plan to build a MegaDrum at some point shortly after the conversion is complete and assuming I'm not satisfied with the Trigger IO performance. Or if I can get with John F who also lives in Raleigh and try out his Roland module and find out it kicks Trigger IO butt maybe a Roland module would be in my future, at least for the drums themselves.
I don't plan to post 1,000 messages in this thread like I did with the last one. The only new thing I'll be doing is building my own mesh heads to start with and build a new internal hi hat slider module which I'm documenting in a different thread.
But I will post some before and after photos. And eventually some decent audio. Which will have to come from my experienced drummer neighbor playing the kit since I can barely keep a beat at this point.
And onto the pictures! Ohhh! My Trigger IO was just delivered as I wrote this. Let the games begin!!!







Which is a great segue to this new thread....
Thanks to way too much time trolling Craigslist I compiled the following kit by purchasing two different kits and selling off what I didn't want, namely a horrible, HORRIBLE Sound Percussion beginners kit that mysteriously has an near new set of Paiste 802's on it. It was like a rust-bucket car with, for whatever reason, shiny chromies on it.

Pearl Export Jazz (though I wouldn't know myself)
22" kick
10/12/14 toms, no ISS mounts (which I personally dislike)
14" metal snare
All older, but totally solid, Pearl hardware: hh, boom, straight
20" Paiste 802 ride
18" Paiste Alpha crash
8" Zildjan A series splash
Paiste 802 14" hats
Only thing missing is claws and head for the front of the bass, and a rubber foot on one of the bass spurs. It's also due for a seriously good cleaning. I had to wash my hands like 10 times while assembling it. I don't think it was dusted or wiped down since it was bought or something. It's not pitted or damaged, just grimy.
I plan to probably add another crash and a china and a cowbell at some point in the [probably very] near future just so it'll look cool. It's all about the looks, baby! Well, that's part of it, anyway. And so I won't have a china playing when I accidentally hit my tom rims for the 100th time. haha Though after actually learning to play I'll stop hitting the rims so much, I'm sure.
I'm hoping my knowledge from the first DIY and the fact there's no giant flappy 16" floor tom will help me achieve perfection with my triggers. I will still use a Trigger IO for the initial build, then plan to build a MegaDrum at some point shortly after the conversion is complete and assuming I'm not satisfied with the Trigger IO performance. Or if I can get with John F who also lives in Raleigh and try out his Roland module and find out it kicks Trigger IO butt maybe a Roland module would be in my future, at least for the drums themselves.
I don't plan to post 1,000 messages in this thread like I did with the last one. The only new thing I'll be doing is building my own mesh heads to start with and build a new internal hi hat slider module which I'm documenting in a different thread.
But I will post some before and after photos. And eventually some decent audio. Which will have to come from my experienced drummer neighbor playing the kit since I can barely keep a beat at this point.
And onto the pictures! Ohhh! My Trigger IO was just delivered as I wrote this. Let the games begin!!!









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