I was wondering what's the best way to muffle a bass drum for use with a ddrum pro bass trigger. I have a hart 22" mesh head on it and this is the only thing holding me back from being 100% happy with my A to E conversion.
Here's a link of the ddrum trigger.
I'm having a really hard time getting the trigger settings just right on the TD20 module. It seems I'm either double triggering too much (from beater bouce-back) but when I set various parameters to cut back on it as specified in the manual (or what I could find in this forum), it doesn't trigger hard enough for the fast double bass stuff.
Normally, I'd write this off as bad technique on my part. However, I previously had the KD120 and it would trigger perfectly on that pad.
I've switched pad types already in my TD-20, adjusted every reasonable trigger sensitivity, threshold, mask time, scan time, cables etc. to try to corner the problem but still I either get too much cut out or not enough. I even searched the forum for a long time and didn't see an obvious thread specific to this scenario/equipment.
I have stuffed the bass drum with a king size set of sheets we had lying around. It seemed to me that the BD head is just wobbling too much resonance and setting the trigger off. Should I dampen it more or move the trigger? I currently have the trigger sitting at about 7:30 on my bass drum hoop behind the mass of "dampneing sheets" for maximum effect. After I moved the trigger from 9:00 to the current position, it seemed to help a bit but it's still not quite there. Any pointers on external trigger placement?
Any ideas what could be going wrong here?
Here's a link of the ddrum trigger.
I'm having a really hard time getting the trigger settings just right on the TD20 module. It seems I'm either double triggering too much (from beater bouce-back) but when I set various parameters to cut back on it as specified in the manual (or what I could find in this forum), it doesn't trigger hard enough for the fast double bass stuff.
Normally, I'd write this off as bad technique on my part. However, I previously had the KD120 and it would trigger perfectly on that pad.
I've switched pad types already in my TD-20, adjusted every reasonable trigger sensitivity, threshold, mask time, scan time, cables etc. to try to corner the problem but still I either get too much cut out or not enough. I even searched the forum for a long time and didn't see an obvious thread specific to this scenario/equipment.
I have stuffed the bass drum with a king size set of sheets we had lying around. It seemed to me that the BD head is just wobbling too much resonance and setting the trigger off. Should I dampen it more or move the trigger? I currently have the trigger sitting at about 7:30 on my bass drum hoop behind the mass of "dampneing sheets" for maximum effect. After I moved the trigger from 9:00 to the current position, it seemed to help a bit but it's still not quite there. Any pointers on external trigger placement?
Any ideas what could be going wrong here?
) and it works great. I have a ddrum pro trigger at 12 o'clock, other positions dont work so well for me on a double pedal.
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