I recently purchased a used roland td-20 kit and since the day i bougt them i have had nothing but problems with the hi hat!! When i recieved it the guy i bought them from lost the actual clutch to mount the top cymbal to the hi hat!!
Replacement part cost me $70. I got it all hooked up and found the head piezzo sensor to not be working so i opened it up and noticed the wire had broken off!
Few minutes later it was all soldered up and seemed to be working quite well.
For a few days that is. Now today all of a sudden i no longer have a rim sensor!! So once again i reopen it up and cannot find anything wrong, but still no rim triggering!!
Surgery again i take and old cy-8 and tear it apart trying to get the rim sensor out!! 2 hours later and a lot of modding i got the cymbal all back together and header to the drums to give it another try!!
Still no rim triggering!! So this time i come up with a different idea.
I once again dismantle the top of my vh-12 and now install one piezzo close to the rim and the original one back in its place and wire everything up to a nice new stereo input jack!!
Well it now seems ive got my dual triggering back! But i am wondering now what other purpose dose that ribbon type trigger really do? I know that it register hits to the rim and is chokable but is the chokeable feature of that top pad ever really used when playing the actual hi hat???
Ive read alot about the VH-12 and that dam top cymbal seems to be the reasoning for alot of problems for many vh-12 users. So i thought to myself if i can rewire that whole top cymbal like i did and it seems to be working pretty good!! I wonder if i bought myself a nice new 12′ Smartrigger hi hat top if all my problems would be solved????
Has anyone tried anything similar to this? VH-12 with a smartrigger 12′ top hi hat cymbal or a hart dynamics Ecymbal II 12′ hi hat top cymbal??????
More research required here im thinking, would appreciate any feedback.
Thanks
