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Thought it might be good for people to show off their hard work.. (but obviously as an excuse to post mine....)

Finally finished my build, and I'm super pleased with it.

20,10,12,14 Pearl Export kit
14 Tama Starclassic Snare

Kick - Jobeky AI trigger bar, off centre.
Snare - Jobeky AI trigger bar, centre mounted for positional sensing. Additional shell piezo for rimshot / side stick
Toms - Goedrum side triggers. Had to replace the jack sockets to fit on a wood shell.

Drumtec Real Feel heads and rubber rims. They play great, but bottom layer of triple ply is saggy on some. Doesn't affect triggering, but not sure why they're constructed like that.

Cymbals - Alibaba low volume cymbals, 14 hats, 2x16 crash, 10 splash, 14 stack, 18 china, 18 ride.

eBay rubber U strip to dampen sound. eBay £4 'ukulele' triggers superglued on rear half of cymbal. Myrk edge trigger fitted on top with connector posted through drilled hole to rear wiring. Note: these then short out! Had to add a piece of tape to prevent that. 1mm foam strip on top as recommended by Myrk.

All dual zone except splash (Myrk doesn't make a 10" edge) and ride is triple zone with additional bell piezo (this has a curved surface, so used some foam tape for this one).
Chokes work flawlessly, including ride bell which is a nice SD3 touch.

Hats play very naturally, with Goedrum GHC controller on the stand modified with a 3D printed piece from YouTube (planet drums?). Cables posted through LV cymbal holes to bottom hat, and jack socket cabled tied on there.

All built around a single E10! Had to connect the stack as a single zone to fit it all in, but I'm pretty sure the sample doesn't have an edge articulation anyway.

Difficulties

Cutting out shell vent for socket. I found a sharp chisel sliced off the raised rivet best, after fighting with a drill.
Goedrum trigger sockets completely unsuitable.
Edge triggers shorting on metal cymbals (duh..)
Drumtec replaced a rubber rim as it began to collapse at the rim shot point. Excellent customer service, they sent me 2!

With this build, SD3, Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro and a Butt Kicker for monitoring, I honestly feel like I've got my dream setup. Plays and sounds better IMO than anything I've tried at drum shows (TD50, Jobeky etc)

Happy to chat through any of this.

Next steps.... Maybe additional 8 and 16 toms, if I can find matching ones. Now just more playing and less fettling for the time being!

Very nicely done.

MWJT42 wrote:Next steps.... Maybe additional 8 and 16 toms, if I can find matching ones.

Check out Bum Wrap. I finally gave up trying to find matching drums to expand my set. Decided wrapping them would be easier. It opens up a lot of options.

https://www.bumwrapdrumco.com/

Here’s what I call “The Overcompensator”

Mylo wrote:Here’s what I call “The Overcompensator”

Very nice! Cabling nice and neat too. Wish I had a space like that rather than squeezed in the corner of a garage. Maybe when the kids move out...only 10 years to go!

Is the single metal cymbal an experiment, or a sign of things to to come?

MWJT42 wrote:

Mylo wrote:Is the single metal cymbal an experiment, or a sign of things to to come?

It’s a left over of what was. Waiting for budget to buy the last ATV I want.

Here’s when I had all metal:

@mylo - I was yelling at mom the other day not to stand on a kitchen chair to fix a light bulb - I see your sneakers down there perched on the throne

dsteinschneider wrote:@mylo - I was yelling at mom the other day not to stand on a kitchen chair to fix a light bulb - I see your sneakers down there perched on the throne

That’s just my shoes. I was really hanging upside down from the basement rafters.

Notice the phone attached to the Alto monitor in the foreground - that's my metronome - it goes into mic input of the Dell Vostro (YouTube and Video Surgeon) laptop in the foreground - the headphone out of the laptop goes into the inputs on the UMC202HD (black on orange tipped cables). The eDRUMin ED10 is under the audio interface, you can see it's orange power light. I keep the Lenovo X230 closed and instead use the logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. The KZ KS10 Pros are the other wire going up the wall. One crash is in the workshop to get the foam riser material I just bought from Mryk laid onto the membrane.

I turned the monitor to portrait orientation with SD mixer on top, SD kit in the middle and Cantabile on the bottom.

Here's mine.

What kind of Stand are you using there for your monitor dsteinschneider?