Keeping Decibel level same between kits

[wildhorse5678]

I dont know if its my ears , but if I set the volume level say to 2 for a tom with one kit, and set a tom in another kit to 2 the sound level appears different.  I am about to use my 2box for live gigs and will be swicthing between maybe 10 different Kits .  Howe csan I sop the sound engineer going mad because the decibel levels change between kts even though I have them set to the same internal volume in the drumit five brain.  I do have installed on my Pc both the standard 2 box sound editor and the Lustark Dkit manager 

[edtc]

it s normal ... all Dsounds are sampled from different drums , with different players by different engeneers ,  so all velocity layers  dont have the same loudness ...

So you ll have to is to compensate with the volume settings ... after all , it s done for this purpose ....

what you could  also do is to import the dsounds in a wav editor and change the volume there , to have less difference between kits ..

[wildhorse5678]

I was afraid of that. I was going to connect the unit to a mixer and use that to equalise the output signals for each kit. But i wanted to see if there was a quicker cheat.

[mcrackins]

I was afraid of that. I was going to connect the unit to a mixer and use that to equalise the output signals for each kit. But i wanted to see if there was a quicker cheat.

If you individually bus each drum on it's own output, you can disable the onboard levels and control the levels via mixing board or through an audio interface.

[analoguekid]

This is exactly why 2box kicks ass...you can control the sound of each drum, and the FOH guy can mix everything just like he's used to...when I show up with my orange kit, the first thing I tell the sound guy is that I'm going to send him individual outs for each drum...they all love that compared to getting a stereo send from other electronic systems...

[wildhorse5678]

The bus idea wont work for us live because the mixing desks in local venues wont have enough inputs. But can you tell me if the bus system works with a kit that has 4 toms and 3 cymbals... Ie can i route all 4 toms to one or two outputs for recording . Do i lose any tiggers eg rims

[analoguekid]

How many channels can you rely on getting?  when I use my acoustic kit, I get
1. Kick
2. Snare
3. Hat
4. t1
5. t2
6. t3
Last weekend I rolled out the 2 box and had to run
1. kick
2. snare
3 all toms
4. all cymbals...
we only use 16 channels and I'm going to be taking 8 of them...all hail the king!

[wildhorse5678]

Im a bit slow .. Can you explain did you put all toms on output 3 and all cymbals on output 4 is that what you mean ?  I dont have a mixer at home so its tricky for me to try out different things

[geo]

The quicker cheat is to use the kit-level mixer. Each sample has its own individual volume level. You can change it on KIT â€" DRUM - VOL.

[wildhorse5678]

Thanks for all the suggestions.