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Nice job! I love the way you took an old, reject set of $50 shells and reworked them into something special and personal. A man after my own heart.
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Looks fantastic. You're going to love playing that. I converted a wrecked Mapex kit a couple years ago. Really fun project.
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Very nice! I've always wondered. What do you use as a reso head? I noticed you're using the Roland powerplys. If I were to buy a set here in Canada, it would cost more than my whole kit.
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Same here I was lucky enough to find the set on gumtree never used for less than the price of 1 x 14 inch head new ,
Reso heads will be the same (just found another add with 10 ,12,14 cheap again
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Working on the isolation bridge tonight
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omg I want to try this!!!!
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omg I want to try this!!!!
By the time I was done building mine, I probably could have just bought a decent mid-level e-kit. But it looked soooo cool and building one up yourself from a crappy acoustic kit, it feels great to sit behind it. I had an e-kit and then the AE conversion and the AE is so much better. Build one up if you can - its a great project. Jammin Sam has great quality wraps and BumWrap has some super cool wood grain wraps - hard to tell them from the real thing.
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All the bits I need to make the snare trigger barsket , best fire up the tig welder tonight ,, can anyone guess what's going to be different with this snare compared to most :)
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All the bits I need to make the snare trigger barsket , best fire up the tig welder tonight ,, can anyone guess what's going to be different with this snare compared to most :)
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It's going to weigh a ton!
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I did an A to E conversion on a couple of kits...............a Sonor force birch kit and a Ludwig "Youth" kit.............worked great with both, but I never really liked the mesh heads.
Now I am using the Pearl E-pro heads, and some Zildjian Gen16 cymbal..............I love it.
https://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47a...D550/ry%3D400/
Still not as "good" as an acoustic kit, but I can rehearse at night and not wake up the family................biggest advantage for me is the full size kit vs. the tiny pads.
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400 grams its all aluminium weighs about the same as a good quality snare strainer set and snares , so yeh not so much im betting it weighs less than a ePro head to tell the truth ,, but it helps that im a ali welder and can use thin wall stuff because i dont have to screw anything together like the the other options
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nice to see that old kit getting another chance of life :ok:
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400 grams its all aluminium weighs about the same as a good quality snare strainer set and snares , so yeh not so much im betting it weighs less than a ePro head to tell the truth ,, but it helps that im a ali welder and can use thin wall stuff because i dont have to screw anything together like the the other options
Probably will.........the epro heads are heavy
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Snare is getting close
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Does the center of that touch the center of the drum head? How does that work?
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Does the center of that touch the center of the drum head? How does that work?
Hi Mate
just painting everything up and i will post some pictures and video of how it works as it seems plenty of people are interested in the Black magic of Electronic drums :)
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Only the foam piezo cone touches the head to transfer the vibrations To the Piezo as you can see here
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And here is the diffent thing I was doing , I'm trying to make a double sided e snare , so you kinda have a spare drum in the same drum
Brake a skin unplug flip it over and plug it back in
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Finished my snare , need to do some adjustments of dynamics but i have great Head Rim isolation , and found my Axis ekits that still work
https://s11.postimg.org/imkq86gov/kick1.jpg
https://s11.postimg.org/vs08eaakf/snare5.jpg
https://s11.postimg.org/ddppaay9r/snare7.jpg