No doubt man the acoustics are way better than the electronics but we are living in singapore here, and many in HDB, like me. So having acoustics in my room, im in a predicament, being that im disturbing the people down below and on top when im playing, including my fellow family members in the house.
If you have a bigger budget lets say around 4000, and i know, i've played the TD-6KV b4 and the sound is simply "not that good" comparing to their high end modules like the flagship td-20 or td-12 with the COSM sound samples which you can practically tune ur drums to any material, depth and like any other acoustics you have!!
Like acoustics, you have low end pearl RT and high end Ayotte customs. The same applies to electronics drum, they have low end td-3 and high ends td-20 with even positional sensing!!
I've placed my budget around 4000 for my conversion, taking into consideration of the piezos, cones, crossbar, l brackets and the td-20. I already have the drums, just needing 3 more toms and im practically done.
With ONE TD-20, i can have an 8 piece set, 2 snare, 3 rack, 2 floor, one Bass, all dual zone triggered.
Cymbals: 2 crash, 2 splash, 1 ride, 1 china, 1 hi hat, 1 aux hi hat.
the splash and aux hats and china are single zone splits from an aux input.
the rest are dual zone.
So all that said and done, as many other avid DIY'er would say, hunting for the materials is the best part of DIYing. Well, probably that day, most of the shops there are closed, i went there around 5 plus so yeah..
And they don't have piezos of 35mm. Largest i saw was 27mm, which is simply not sensitive enough for roland modules, so im sticking my wits to DIGIKEY.
Some of the stuff i need i have to get it from overseas like the TD20, VRS switch, and such. Well yea the VRS switch is quite expensive, but its worth the money and more sensitive than buying a SMARTRIGGER CYMBAL which uses other kind of switch to choke the cymbal.
So an added advantage that you have with the td-20 is that u can play practically anytime u want, you can tune ur drums to sound anything that you like, it costs MUCH MUCH cheaper to DIY but if something goes wrong, than it's better you buy ready made triggers from this guy called JMAN, a cheaper alternative than buying a triggered pad.
Elevenine, have you seen other Piezos about 35 mm in diameter for the brass parT? Mostly, i saw most of them which are salvaged from other buzzers or those stored in like parts area where they don't know the khz of the piezo and such, so i guess getting my piezos from digikey's the best.
cheers
