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How To Make a $5 Internal Dual Zone Snare Trigger EASY! Acoustic To Electronic Drum Conversion Cheap

Demonic Sweaters

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20 Comments

@remaharman2598 5 years ago

Great stuff
TIPS you can buy Metal L brackets with slots instead of holes this way you can slide adjust the piezo up against the skin also the foam pad is your main flaw it's not dense enough try one of those white magic foam sponges or you can get ladies make up sponges a pyramid shape can be cut with a sharp blade but a more dense (less air bubble ) foam is the way you can buy Roland replacement foams but easy to replicate them by sticking thinner foam sheet together and use foam double sided tape to stick the foam to foam and foam to gaffa tape
Your method of using gaffe to skin is a good idea as you mentioned it leaves no residue when you have to replace foam note foam does deteriorate over years and it's a good idea to replace them if the triggering looses accuracy all best Lune Takahashi (Roland engineering )

@christopherg9806 4 years ago

I really appreciate that you didn't edit out your mistakes, as it makes the project feel less daunting for me to tackle. I plan to give this a try for my acoustic-to-electronic conversion. The only difference is that I plan to use the vent hole for the jack, because I like the clean look.

@Handai7 4 years ago

Just the one I was looking for because you followed the diagram of Roland and I didnt know how until I found your video. Some people they wire up their Piezos the other way around ie: The Head and Ring have opposite Polarity against each other, no wonder it never worked on my Roland lol. Cheers

@paulyates5092 3 years ago (edited)

Basic and to the point. I like how you leave your mistakes in the video, they are the ones that most people make. I will be attempting to make a floor/foot drum type of unit shortly and this video has helped a lot, i will be using a Roland TD3 module and foot size plywood boxes for the different drum chambers and i never gave it a thought of using dish spongers as packing for the piezo discs. Thanks for a great video.

@ByHookOrByCrook-666 6 years ago

Brilliant Vid as always , keep up the good work brother ✌️

@thainfernaljoker 6 years ago

You sir are awesome. I got a 12 inch snare that's been collecting dust in a closet. It finally has a purpose again

@jameswilson2024 2 years ago

I’m late to the game but great vid and great channel Justin!

@erniesimsek6637 5 years ago

Great job and video. Thanks for sharing

@fabianperez5384 5 years ago

Great brother!! Big hug from argentina

@haejoon2007 6 years ago

Yesssir Justin!!!!

@notforyoutube 2 years ago

Great video

@skytaylor4209 3 years ago

Nice!!!!

@danimorrison7994 4 years ago

Hey good job I am so out there I couldn’t figure out the wiring! I took my Yamaha stage acoustic set of 5 and I put the female TRS JACKS THRU THE AIR VENT HOLES IT TOOK SOME TIME OPENING UP THE AIR VENT HOOES ENOUGH SO TO ALLOW FOR THE OTHER END TO COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AIR VENT HOLE SO I COULD PUT THE NUT ON I WENT TO HOME DEPOT AND BOUGHT A 6 foot by 1” aluminum bar and made a 1 inch by 3/8 slit down two of each so as to slide the bar up or down leaving about an 8th inch gap from heads I did this for all my pieces of drums. That way I can go up or down in adjusting the piezos. I got a Dtx 900 e for my module because I believe Yamaha has more acoustic sounding drums than Roland. But thank you you are so funny

@wackaman 5 years ago

I have an acoustic kit and can't use it because it's really loud. I think I'm gonna make those dual zone triggers and stick them in a ddrum DDTi with mesh heads. Thanks for the video!

@romeguillen9400 5 years ago

going to try this, this week. thanks man <3

@mnogonotov 4 years ago

thx <3

@joehenthompson2023 5 years ago

Hi Justin. Another great video. I really like how you break down the simplicity of how a drum trigger actually works and operates. It looks very simple to build and functional. I am wondering where did you get your rubber rim silencer? What are the dimension and "shape" of your rubber strip. It looks very cool. Thanks.

@j-hop91 3 years ago

I'm planning on doing this.

Is your head trigger directly against the underside of the head? It looks like it goes from the head, a few layers of gaffer tape, piezo, foam, then l-bracet.
Great Channel. Thanks for the content!

@MikiDrummerBC 1 year ago

Awesome video! how do you connect the piezos to the jack input ?

@rcotta 3 years ago

For the author: AWESOME video!
I am about to do one trigger myself using a cheap tambourine-like instrument we have in Brazil and a mesh head, and there's one thing I'd like to clarify: if the piezo goes directly on the mesh, what's the foam used for? Is it to avoid triggering the mesh piezo when we hit the rim? I saw some DYI videos where people use a foam cone that touches the mesh, and the piezo is placed under this foam cone.