Kick drum sensor based PA output option?

[Stumbo]

Terri had this listed on her website and it might worth checking out as a replacement for miking the kick drum: Link Removed It's not marketed for that but it seems to it would be interest to adapt it for live sound. I checked out some of the videos on the Porchboard website and it sounds pretty good to me.

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[James Judson]

A lot of bands in my area are taking the bass drum sound away from the drummer. A sensor and drum machine make up the sound sent to the PA. This eliminates the mike/drum relationship, EQ issues and any idiosyncracys the drum has. Most synths/sound generators now days have great drum sounds. Why not all the drums??? Drum machines/synths do not have the dynamics of an acoustic kit (they get better each year). If your at a show that has really good kick sounds, your listening to a good sound man or a synth.

YMMV

 

[Stumbo]

A lot of bands in my area are taking the bass drum sound away from the drummer. A sensor and drum machine make up the sound sent to the PA.

Which "sensor" are you using?

 

[walterw]

google "drum triggers".

 

[Munjibunga]

I have an SX Stomp Box that works halfways decent.

 

[TimmyP]

I've not been much pleased with the electronic drums I've heard (and fiddled with). Hats and cymbals, yes.

 

[walterw]

and we bass players get mad when the soundguy wants to bypass all our carefully thought-out amp gear and personal "tone" and take a DI right off the bass! now we want to do it to the drummer, too!

 

[WaltsSound]

That won't sound like a kick unless u use it to trigger a sample. As a sound man I recomend against it, if u play places that don't have a gate and compressor to insert on the kick channel then buy one, a DBX 266XL can do the job cheaply and u wont have to worry about bad kick sounds unless the engineer is completely incompetent...

 

[Floyd Eye]

Wha???