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My recently expanded kit has three PDX-8s. Two are mounted on the rack and one is side snare mounted on a snare stand. All three are stereo connections, and essentially have the same trigger settings. What I’ve noticed the side snare has issues with head hits (usually during light double stroke rolls) double triggering sidestick. Very perplexing since this is pad is brand new, and the other two work fine with similar settings.

I tried to adjust trigger settings (like decay) to remove double triggers, but nothing helped. I then unplugged the cable and plugged it back in (at the pad). No more issues.

But then the next day the issue returns and I unplug/plug the cable at the pad. All better. Until the next day. However, today I had a thought. This seems to happen only after a power cycle. Could the snare stand be generating, inducing something (maybe a signal) to the rim on power up that the eDRUMin wakes up with a signal issue? But when I disconnect the cable it resets the input or something so that the snare stand interference is no factor?

Am I off base and is anything that can be done? Resetting the cable is a bit tedious.

Edit: point of clarification the snare stand is not clamped on the rim, but just below the rim’s lip. So the rim kinda rest on the three snare stand clamps.

That's definitely a weird issue and no probable cause is jumping out at me. You're running two ED10's right? All 3 pads are plugged into the same device? Can you post a screenshot of your settings for the pad mounted on the stand?

Rob wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:38 pm

That's definitely a weird issue and no probable cause is jumping out at me. You're running two ED10's right? All 3 pads are plugged into the same device? Can you post a screenshot of your settings for the pad mounted on the stand?

Nevermind. Bad cable. I used the same cable on a good pad and the issue followed. I used a new cable on the bad pad and now the bad pad works just fine. I think unplugging and plugging it back in only worked because certain times when whatever was wrong with the cable was temporarily resolved by my handling it. Should have checked the cable first. It was, I thought, a new hosa TRS cable. Must have been damaged somehow.

Also, a trick I've learned the hard way (although it's clearly mentioned in the manual): unplug your cable at the device end, not the trigger end, so the device can detect what you're trying to connect.