# Cheap drum trigger for your modular...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2006-03-09
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2006/03/cheap-drum-trigger-for-your-modular/

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Robert Trelease just posted the following on the Blacet list. I thought it might be interesting to those of you that have modulars but aren't on that list:  
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The [Blacet 2225 I/O](http://www.blacet.com/IO.html) works great for producing analog percussion and  
bell sounds with inexpensive professional drum triggers.

I've gotten great results from a Pintech RS-5T drum trigger (~$23)  
mounted on a 6" Remo Practice Pad (~$13). The TT3 trigger trap  
bracket had to be slightly modified (end tab cut off) to fit the  
practice pad. The trigger output is a 1/4" jack, making for easy  
cable connection to the I/O.

Best results were obtained with 100X amplification on the I/O 2225,  
with gain and level set for reliable triggers and gating. It was  
easy to set the levels for stick or hand drum play (way simpler than  
on my Yamaha DD-5 digital drums).  
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[Here's a link](http://www.musiciansfriend.com/home/navigation?q=Pintech+RS-5T) to the trigger at Musician's Friend. Any ol' practice pad should work.

## Comments (2)

**inasilentway** (2006-03-09):

It's common knowledge that with a $3 Radio Shack piezo sensor, you can build your own drum triggers. I made a pair of yogurt-container triggers and they worked really well, someday I want to do up a whole practice pad set (like this guy: http://members.cox.net/ampage/triggers.htm ) and hook it up to a MIDI drum brain so I can trigger soft synths with them. But yeah, if you google "DIY piezo drum trigger", there's a wealth of information about them.

**brandon daniel** (2006-03-09):

Yeah, about ten years ago some friends and I built some DIY trigger pads out of scrap plastic, scrap metal, piezos taken from a $5 kids drum toy, and old mouse pads. 'ardcore.