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- From: gpr@midiline.la.ca.us (Gary Richardi)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers
- Subject: Re: Homemade Drum Pad for Foot? Info needed...
- Message-ID: <ZomTwB1w165w@midiline.la.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 13:54:10 PST
- References: <394@ittc.wec.com>
- Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285
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- simmons@ittc.wec.com (Garry Simmons) writes:
-
- > Since there was a short thread about MIDI-footwear, I thought of the Daus sne
- > or somesuch device that let you tap your heel and use that as a MIDI trigger
- > a kick drum. I was toying with the idea of using a Rat Shack piezo and a few
- > of appropriate materials to make a small pad to stomp my heel on. I find that
- > can tap my heel in better time than my toes when sitting down. The leverage s
- > better/smoother or something. I'm not a drummer by the way.
- >
- > Has anybody out there tried this or can offer suggestions on how to build the
- > pad to eliminate false/missing triggers? I know lots of you have built pads
- > out of RS piezos, but I never saved any of the posts on construction how-to..
- > Of course, I didn't own a DrumKAT then either...
- >
- > I'm envisioning a small wood slab with small screws pointing down into the fl
- > to keep it from moving. I also figure that some layering of rubber/plastic/pi
- > wood or somesuch thing on top to stomp on. Total size would be about 3" squar
- > with a 1/4" jack for the trigger output.
- >
- > I can't post to the new rec.music.makers.percussion since our system hasn't
- > caught up with the recent changes, but I do read rec.music.makers and
- > rec.music.synth everyday. E-mail is fine as well.
- >
- > Thanks All,
- >
- > Garry Simmons
- > simmons@ittc.wec.com
-
- I bought a cheap real drum kick pedal ($35) and attached 2 2x4 stubs of
- wood, one along the floor and the other straight up (like the plane of
- a bass drum head). I braced the back of the vertical stub and placed a
- pad on it where the beater could hit it. I use a pad from an old Matel
- SynSonics drum machine toy, which is just a pad assembley with a piezo
- disk inside it (exactly the same type RS sells). This works fairly well.
- False triggering is very minimal, easy to delete when sequencing and
- easy to ignore when playing live. I might be fussier if I were a drummer
- and not a guitarist. It's a "low-tech" approach but it works and was
- cheap. ---- Gary ----
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- gpr@midiline.la.ca.us (Gary Richardi)
- MIDILine BBS (midiline.la.ca.us) - Altadena CA - (818)797-3285
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