Bass drum HUB: My idea and plans, Dave's hard work

[TheJay]

Hey everyone, I thought you should know that Dave has done some great work for me.

Before Rob brought out the 10 port eDRUMin, I had a problem. Five modules and a LOT of cables.

I created a CAD drawing with dimensions and Dave built a rig inside the bass drum to hide everything. This is one up from the usual built in cables.









It works really well, I'm still setting up so haven't put the bass drum head back on yet. This makes cable management much easier. It doesn't matter if there is extra cable length, it all gets pushed inside. Any slack can be wound up and cable tied.

I imagine it would also accommodate a 10 port eDRUMin too, there is still space even with five eDRUMin modules fitted. I may need to order a 10 port one soon as I'm going to have 13 drums, 6 cymbals (excluding hi hats), with some requiring three ports along with a cowbell and (hopefully) something else new and never seen before (not to my knowledge anyway).

I hope this helps.

[Mylo]

Very cool. That’s going to be nice and clean. My OCD loves it.

[TheJay]

What can I say? I'm a trend setter.

[Ratamacue]

That is completely awesome.

I have a a black Ludwig Breakbeats A2E conversion. The VH-10, 15" and 14" Roland cymbals look to scale against the small shell diameters. The only thing that gives me fits is ..... cable management. I use velcro ties to keep the cable snug against cymbal stands so the eye isn't drawn to dangling cables. Your solution seems more tidy than running a snake across the floor. Please share photos when it's all set up.

[TheJay]

Still a work in progress




Expecting two more cymbals and a better way to mount the additional with cymbal arms.

[Ratamacue]

Nice!

I see a minimum of 18 inputs. If you have those pd-8s set to dual zone you have at least 26 voices going for you.

Are you triggering all voices from a single VST (eg., AD2, SD3, SSD, etc.).

Brien

[TheJay]

That's right, at least 18 inputs. Currently all five of the eDRUMin modules are being used and there are no spare ports. I'm thinking about using splitters on the pads to reduce the number of inputs to four as I'm really not bothered about rim triggering and looking at anything else that can be combined. I still need to be able to connect my cowbell and two additional cymbals.

All going through SD3.