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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.