Hotspot suppress

[OftheSeven]

I'm slowly calibrating my 2-eDRUMin units.
I'm using a Jobeky AI bar trigger with Drumtec Real feel head on my snare.

I have hotspotting at the trigger location but when I turn on hotspot suppress and hit the snare, nothing registers in the "thresh" indicator or it's super faint, maybe 1-2 if any. Gain is at 1.0, thresh 1.0, scan 3.0ms, hold 10.0ms.

I have a feeling I'm doing something wrong and this might be related to my noob trigger install experience...how much pressure/force should be applied to the trigger by the mesh head?

Thanks

[Rob]

How's the tensioning on your pad? Is your signal clipping? These kinds of issues can prevent hotspot suppression from working properly.

[OftheSeven]

How's the tensioning on your pad? Is your signal clipping? These kinds of issues can prevent hotspot suppression from working properly.

Thanks Rob! I think the tension was too low. I tightened it and got better readings in the hotspot thresh indicator. I'll play around more and see.
Now I need to re-adjust the side stick threshold...

I also noticed in SD3 I have to turn up the 'soft hit levels' in the software to make it sound more uniform between soft and hard hits.

[Rob]

I would instead use the eDRUMin velocity curves for that purpose, but to each his own.

SD only has 7 bit velocity data, whereas the eDRUMin internally uses 10bit. Applying velocity curves to 10 bit velocities is going to give you more expressiveness.

[AKA Wayne]

I notice that a lot of hits don’t register in the threshold indicator. It still works pretty well though and thought this was normal. Should all hits register something in the threshold indicator?

[Rob]

Yes, that's normal. Not all hits will register in that thresh indicator.