So i got my set finished and I've used up all the inputs. The only way i could expand my set without getting a TMC or another brain is to use the dual zone tom capability. I had planed to put a raper circuit in them and just assign random effects to the rims but my attempts at the Rapers for my cymbals weren't so successful. I finally finished my cymbals using Hellfires dualzone/chokeable switch and now that i'm in love with the idea i kinda want to use that idea to make more triggers off my tom inputs. But I have a few questions before i would launch into it.
The first one would be that i'm pretty sure i heard somewhere that the dynamics of the triggering on a piezo/switch pad is measured by the piezo after the hit on the stitch. If this were true and i create a mount for the switch separate from the piezo(that is in the tom) it wouldn't work.
One solution to this i thought of was to put another piezo (wired the same as the one that would bein the tom) onto my new switch/second trigger contraption so that i could have the switch separate from the tom.
Oh, another idea i just had (if my solution works). I have a TD-10 with 4 toms so if i could make a pad with 4 switches on it, wire them all to one piezo somehow and use that piezo to measure the vibration of them all to create like my own little trigger pad....it would be much more complicated than that but i may mess around with it.....
I dont know if i lost you in all that rambling if so feel free to ask question.
any thoughts? hahaha
The first one would be that i'm pretty sure i heard somewhere that the dynamics of the triggering on a piezo/switch pad is measured by the piezo after the hit on the stitch. If this were true and i create a mount for the switch separate from the piezo(that is in the tom) it wouldn't work.
One solution to this i thought of was to put another piezo (wired the same as the one that would bein the tom) onto my new switch/second trigger contraption so that i could have the switch separate from the tom.
Oh, another idea i just had (if my solution works). I have a TD-10 with 4 toms so if i could make a pad with 4 switches on it, wire them all to one piezo somehow and use that piezo to measure the vibration of them all to create like my own little trigger pad....it would be much more complicated than that but i may mess around with it.....
I dont know if i lost you in all that rambling if so feel free to ask question.
any thoughts? hahaha
To keep it simple, we want to use the rim as part of the switch. If your lugs are all metal (which most are) you can run a wire from any of the lug screws inside the tom shell. That would be "contact#1". Using a conduit clamp bent it to the shape as shown in the pictures, and bolt it through the tom shell. From the inside of the tom shell, use the bolt of the conduit for your second wire, this is "contact#2". Now, the way it is shown in the picture the switch would be very small, but if you use two or three clamp and bolt those to an arch shape piece of wood and then put some rubber on it, you are good to go. Now if you have to much isolation between the piezo mount (for you head) and the wall of the shell, it may not work well. Most people use rubber washers on the mounting of their cross bar, you may need to omit those. If that is how you built your drums.
What I should have said is "I wouldn't think that hoops and conduit clamps were made of metals possessing a relatively high conductivity". Not all metal has the same conductivity. Copper, for example, has excellent conductivity... which has a lot to do with why it is used so much in electronics. Another point, some conduit clamps are purposefully made to be non-conductive. I would use a piece of copper instead, I'd swear I have seen similarly shaped copper clamps before.
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