Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2011 3:42:37 GMT -5
Hi all,
Here's how I made a ride pad for use with the ddrum3. The cymbal I used was a Paiste 101 20" ride. I cut out the shape as in the pic below. I dampened it using something like Dynamat or HushMat. Over here it's called asphaltmat. Use a hot air gun to apply it properly. Or you could glue a neoprene rubber mat. The piezo is glued underneath the bell. Please note that you will need to adjust the levels of the bell vs. the rest of the samples you use, because the piezo is right underneath where you would hit when playing the bell, so that signal will be very loud compared to the others. For my playing style, the difference between bell and bow samples should be about 5dB when using log2 velocitycurve. Using the log2 or 3 velocity curves helps a lot. Or you could have a silent sample for velocities 7 and 8 and link the channel to another which has the bell samples, and set the "Out"-levels accordingly. Here's the layout of the samples, with regard to playingstyle etc (see the pic also):
Velocities:
Bell: 7,8 Positions 1 thru 8
Normal ride-playing: max 4
5 and 6 can thus have crash sounds on all positions
Playingstyle-tested velocities:
8th notes w. acc quarternotes
accents: 5,6
upbeats: 2 mostly
Fast 16th notes played using fingertechniqe: 2 mostly
No point in having separate samples for velocity 1 since it is rarely triggered.
Positions 4,5 and 6 can have crash sounds
Position 1 and 8 is triggered the most during normal playing, they should have normal ride sounds.
Here's how I made a ride pad for use with the ddrum3. The cymbal I used was a Paiste 101 20" ride. I cut out the shape as in the pic below. I dampened it using something like Dynamat or HushMat. Over here it's called asphaltmat. Use a hot air gun to apply it properly. Or you could glue a neoprene rubber mat. The piezo is glued underneath the bell. Please note that you will need to adjust the levels of the bell vs. the rest of the samples you use, because the piezo is right underneath where you would hit when playing the bell, so that signal will be very loud compared to the others. For my playing style, the difference between bell and bow samples should be about 5dB when using log2 velocitycurve. Using the log2 or 3 velocity curves helps a lot. Or you could have a silent sample for velocities 7 and 8 and link the channel to another which has the bell samples, and set the "Out"-levels accordingly. Here's the layout of the samples, with regard to playingstyle etc (see the pic also):
Velocities:
Bell: 7,8 Positions 1 thru 8
Normal ride-playing: max 4
5 and 6 can thus have crash sounds on all positions
Playingstyle-tested velocities:
8th notes w. acc quarternotes
accents: 5,6
upbeats: 2 mostly
Fast 16th notes played using fingertechniqe: 2 mostly
No point in having separate samples for velocity 1 since it is rarely triggered.
Positions 4,5 and 6 can have crash sounds
Position 1 and 8 is triggered the most during normal playing, they should have normal ride sounds.
I've seen in his videos that he uses som transparent stuff that makes the cymbals pretty quiet, and look nice too.