DIY Electronic Drums (Drum Module Req'd)

Step 2 Bass Pedal/Hi-hat Trigger

These two items were fairly simple and straightforward:

For the pedal, I built a wooden frame that accepted a normal bass pedal, basically an L shape, with reinforcement. The piezo on this was sandwiched between some layers of mousepad and the assembly was placed at the right hieght to be struck by the beater when the pedal was pressed. You cant see in the picture, but the pedal clamps to the rounded bar on a simple door hinge that is in closed position and screwed onto the board on the underside.

The hi-hat trigger was a simple on off sustain footswitch for a keyboard I used to own. Anything that makes/breaks a connection can be used for my set as the module I have only supports an open or close hat, fancier modules can use a potentionmeter I believe for the open-ness of the hat.

Comments

[jkaradzic]

Or you can use a kick PEDAL trigger, like here: http://triggera.com/krigg/

[coolkid109]

So how do I go about making the hi hat so that I can play it open or closed, I'm not concerned about anything in between for right now

[crocboy]

I have the same bass drum pedal, although I recently upgraded to the DW 7000.

[gnargnar]

i built one of these awhile ago and it triggers the kick when i hit, and when i bring the pedal off. does that make sense? hit=trigger remove=second annoying trigger

is your piezo in the middle of those 4 layers? like 2 under 2 on top?

[Warlock_12]

i was wondering that too but i think it is the way you say because he said sandwiched