What do acoustic drum triggers do? Can they be hooked up to a drum module and act as electronic drums?
If acoustic drums have drum triggers hooked up to a drum module, do the acoustic drums act as electronic drums? Please answer!!!!
Yes that is correct. I have been triggering for years and love it. I do not trigger snare but do trigger all other drums. I use the ddrum triggers and they are awesome. I tried some others but had issue with false triggering. I trigger to a ddrum AT unit.
My band used drum triggers for the exact reason you mentioned, above. We attached the triggers to the drum heads on the acoustic drums, ran the trigger leads to an electronic drum module to trigger interesting drum sounds. A few leads, we sent to a sampler to trigger random voice samples.
Make sure you dampen the acoustic heads the best you can, if you are going to use the leads to trigger electronic drum module sounds. That way, you get a good, clean electronic sound, rather than a "doubled" sound of the electronic sound plus the acoustic sound.
Best of luck!
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EBM/Industrial musician of 15 years.
Yes that is correct. I have been triggering for years and love it. I do not trigger snare but do trigger all other drums. I use the ddrum triggers and they are awesome. I tried some others but had issue with false triggering. I trigger to a ddrum AT unit.
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A drum trigger normally hooks onto the rim of an acoustic drum and senses when the drum skin is struck. They can indeed be plugged into a module to trigger external sounds. I suppose technically, if you wanted to turn your kit into an electronic kit, the best way to do it would be to replace your drum heads with mesh drum heads. That way, you would trigger the module and get the electronic sounds without getting the loud sound of your acoustic drums aswell.
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The only draw back to the triggers is that they are not good for rolls and will sometimes not pick up other quick beats such as 32nd and 64 notes depending on how the sensitivity is set in the module. But you run a fine line with setting the sensitivity real low because then you will start picking up spuratic triggering from sympathetic resonance or even just bumping your leg against the drum, etc. I have even gotten sympathetic resonance from the singer coming through my monitor before. It is not cool when the singer is triggering his own trash can drum rolls from the mic.
BzB