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no, its just that murgen is a fan of tenacious d lol

thank you guys for the answer

there is little to say about lustar!! he made the 2box community a better place!!! thank you my friend for all your efforts!!! cheers!!!!

thank you lustar for all your help and contribution to this community!!! you are a god (and a great friend)

is this available for download? also (because i havent meesed with 2bopx brain for a long time and my memory is not getting better), if i upgrade to 1.28 will i lose my settings? if i remember well, i wont but i am just asking. thank you

thank you dear friend. god bless

ok i realized that i am stupid and that an on-off switch cant work with 2box(i am correct right?)
so i should install a piezo.
please look at how i have my set up


the tennis ball beater hits the foam of the kick pad. the foam is thick. my questionis where i should install the piezo trigger. obviously i will install it somewhere that it wont get hit by the beater. should i glue it on the foamvery close to where the beater hits? should i unglue the foam and install the piezo behind the foam and reglue the foam in its position? or somewhere else? any ideas?
also i can see that the piezo triggers come in different sizes. 12mm, 20mm,27mm. any ideas what would be the best sollution for this? perhaps the biggest one? 27 mm?

and if i make an ecowbell will there also be needed a big size piezo or small one? any suggestions? thank you

hi there. long time since i posted here.
long time ago i had some drum kit to use with guitar hero rock band etc. it was ion drum rcker. i had made a diy constrauction back then, creating a kick pedal input. i used a normal foot pedal and installed to it and to a kick pad these things here
http://www.amazon.com/Philmore-N-O-N-C-Magnetic-Switch/dp/B004PARDRO
a normally open magnetic switch
when the beater with the one magnet attached to it, got close to the other magnet attached to the kick pad, then a signal was emmitted and thus the drums knew i hit the kick.

now i tried to emulate this to 2box. same construction a kick pad and a foot pedal. attaching one magnet to the pedal and the other, to the pad.i got a mono cable that i stripped one end and connected the 2 inside cables one to com and the other to n.o (normally open) screws. the i plugged the cable to the brain to tom 4 input.i could hear the magnet circuit closing and opening but no sound from 2 box. no hit was registered. i had put sounds to tom 4 of course. any idea how i can fix that?

and while i am at a new thread, may i ask something totally (or not) irrelevant?
was thinking to make an ecowbell. any ideas how it can be done? i should use a piezo right? installed inside a cowbell or generally inside the thing i should hit? cheers

in MY opinion it increases it my friend

thank you edtc. jman also pmed me to explain this!!!
i had misunderstood everything. by the looks of it, i will just turn to the solution of one zone cowbell.
probably i will get a nano pad. ill see what i do. thank you all for your contribution to the thread.

last question. for left foot clave trigerring. should i use a pedal (probably the stock 2box kick pedal) with krigg, or is it better to use another nano pad for instance, that will be hit by a beater? any ideas?do the nanopads respond well when hit by a beater? any ideas? if krigg will do the trck just fine, perhaps i get one. but nano pads seems to be too cheap.. dunno

once i finish with these upgrades (could take some months due to money issues) ill post a great picture of my set.cheers

i am great jman thank you. i hope you are great as well.

thank you for all the usefull input. i do not want the double zone cowpaddy as i would want to be able to hit both zones with push pull technique if you know what i mean. so my only option is yours. and yes i have an open slot of tom 4 i dont use!! hehe. but the lack of dual zone cowbell dsnds is discaraging to be honest. i ll look more into them. if i decide i will build or have dual zone dsnds(dunno what i have lol), il try to get yours. hopefully some friend of mine from the us will come to greece in the summer so... otherwise i think it would be too costly for me if you shipped it to greece. but when there is a will there is a way. i saw your video of dual trigger cowbell was really nice. thank you very much my friend!!!!!

wow i am stupid. i had seen it and i thought jman had transformed a bell cymbal in to an electric cowbell lol. jmans lectric moo2 is exactly what i need. ill go check his site. it seems amazing. though i am kinda worried for postal expences and customs lol
iam so happy that what i want exists!!!. thank you

ps. no info on jman 's site about lectric moo2. only the single zone version of it..

hello all. since now i have started getting into montuno left foot clave etc. i thought it would be great to have an electronic trigger in my left foot to trigger a wood block etc.
for my left foot i need only one zone. so i was thinking. wouldnt the cheapest sollution be, to use a trigerra krig and mount it on the stock 2box kick pedal?
would this work and would the outcome be ok?

also i wanted a cowbell (well no kit is really great without one lol)
but real acoustic cowbells have 2 sounds they make. so i wanted to emulate that in a cowbell triger. but i havent seen a dual cowbell trigger apart from jmans. but i want the 2 zones to trigger like in a real cowbell to emulate the momevent of the stick. aka edge and bow if you get what i mean. so i would want a, e cowbell that has the shape of a cowbell and have one zone on the edge and on on the bow. is there something like that available? if not can it be constructed? and any idea how the triggers should be placed?

if not it get a nanopad i guess. cheers and thank you

first of all, the update they did on their website is because of me.
i sent them comparison photos of the 2box heads and 682 heads so that they  understand why they were in some cases a tight fit. when i say that there was little msh i meant that the heads dodnt sit low enough on the pads. if there was more mesh on the head rim, they would sit lower on the pad and get screwed easier. with the replacement heads they sent me there was no problem at all and now they check all heads so noone has any problems.
they had excellent communication btw.
if you also have problems with the heads you can contact them. my tom heads get replaced easily now!!!!
the snare and kick heads had no problem at all!!!
i really love playing on these heads now!

ok i decided to write a new thread so that new forum members etc, wont have trouble finding out what is going on in these heads.

i will cut a long story short and just tell the facts.
i have purchased the whole set of 682 heads for 2box. everything is amazing about these heads. for double ply mesh heads, they are really silent. the rebound is as it should be, really close to an acoustic set and they are sturdy and durable.
i had alittle problem with 2 of the tom heads, somehow i got 2 that had a little less mesh on it so they wouldnt sit properly on the toms. bad luck... i contacted them and they were very helpful and very professional. in a matter of few days i got my replacement heads, and they were excellent. now in my kit every single  head is 682. and i couldnt be happier about it

i have tried roland mesh heads for the kick. too loud and bouncy. didnt dig them . especially the loud noise was irritating
z-ed heads. they were a bit more silent but also with more rebound which i hated. also the kick head would not install. they are not good for 2box unless you change the screws in 2box.
drum tech design heads for snare. these were good. but also very very loud. and not as durable as i would want, since i managed to break them... and i am not that heavy hitter in my el;ectronic kits. i play with 7a sticks.

bottom line is that i can vouch that these heads are the best gift you can give to yourself. they do make a really big difference in playability of 2box.

ps. i am in no way associated with 682. the nice review is because i feel they deserve it.
and i believe also that their price is right!!!!
take care guys

ps2. anyone having trouble with tom heads, please do contact them. they will sort it all out and they are excellent guys. i know!!! cant wait for tomorrows practise!!! i am in love with 2box all over again!