Building Electronic Foot Drums: Version 2

[@littletheatremusic]

I hate that it took 3 years for the algorithm to show me this; I’ve been gigging solo for years, before and after COVID and always wanted something more than just a single stomp box. I’ve been bringing an entire kick drum and a hi hat stand with a tambourine on it to gigs but something like this would make it so much easier 🙌🏻

[@jamminjaymn7675]

I also made my own midi foot drum and glad to see others doing this as well

[@saymyname3097]

Your presentation is very motivating. Thank James.

[@MarkDally]

Awesome idea. Sounds great. Well done !!

[@patrickpuzzo416]

Thank you for all your hard work! I got some great ideas from this! By the way, I use a Boss OC-3 pedal on my guitar to add a bass part.

[@luishuerta9506]

Hi! Do you sell this? Great work!

[@nelsonspaulding]

What sensors did you use?

[@lowbassdude1987]

This is great!

[@jakehenkel3675]

Hey James awesome video! The pedalboard is a great idea, I was thinking about a thinking about a large board like your prototype and putting Velcro on it to be able to move the pedals around if I wanted to, but I like the pedalboard idea and will probably do the same for a final version. I do have a wiring question that I haven’t been able to find online because this is such a niche project. I do not have the pin out for my specific drum module (alesis turbo) which I picked up for cheap just to try and make sure the foot drum system would work. When trying to match the leads on the piezos to the pins on the module I was running into an issue. Using a multimeter I expected to be able to find about 12 pairs of positive and negative pins, however I was only able to find one pair, and one of the pins (#13) completed the circuit to about 14 of the other pins. I’d like to know if you think this points to a faulty drum module (it was listed as new but it was bought on ebay refurbished) if you have any experience with this or could provide any more information specifically about connecting the sensors to the module that would be greatly appreciated!!

[@paulotarso2928]

hello, would you like to ask a question? there was no problem with Crosstalk, because I tried to do it in one way, but just swinging the foot already triggers the effect twice in a row.