Hello, I'm looking for help on building a transmitter & receiver to replace the wired connections on my Electric Drum Kit. The drum kit currently passes a signal from the drum pad to the computer brain module when the pad gets struck by a stick via basic stereo or mono cables, the same cable you'd use to connect an mp3 player to aux-in of a stereo, either 3.5mm(1/8") or 1/4" jack cable like a guitar would use.
I'd just like to make these connections wireless as there are at least 15 drums and cymbals connected to the rack and each needs its own mono channel to send the signal to the brain module when its hit. The computer does most the work, The pad basically has a sensor called a "paizo" and I imagine it produces a small electric signal when the pad is hit at a certain threshold and sends it through the cable.
They currently sell 1/4" transmitter/receiver systems for guitars starting at around $40, which I'd be happy to use as a solution if one piece was enough, but like i said earlier each drum/cymbal has a dedicated channel so it would cost over $500 to complete this project (more than the kit itself costs). I've seen professional bands use these for guitars when on stage in a show. I also don't need a high quality reproduction of the signal like a guitar performer would need because this wouldn't be used for generating sound, it just needs to carry a a weak inaudible signal to fire the trigger. There are youtube tutorials on building these but the parts are still relatively expensive for they are building the ones with high sound quality reproduction.
I believe such devices for guitars are built using UHF and ive seen some at 900mhz probably because latency is the biggest issue when sending wireless signals, and in order to fool the human ear and be able to play along, latency needs to be below 11 ms i believe. UHF accomplished this i imagine.
Any help for the parts and schematics would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
-Ryan
I'd just like to make these connections wireless as there are at least 15 drums and cymbals connected to the rack and each needs its own mono channel to send the signal to the brain module when its hit. The computer does most the work, The pad basically has a sensor called a "paizo" and I imagine it produces a small electric signal when the pad is hit at a certain threshold and sends it through the cable.
They currently sell 1/4" transmitter/receiver systems for guitars starting at around $40, which I'd be happy to use as a solution if one piece was enough, but like i said earlier each drum/cymbal has a dedicated channel so it would cost over $500 to complete this project (more than the kit itself costs). I've seen professional bands use these for guitars when on stage in a show. I also don't need a high quality reproduction of the signal like a guitar performer would need because this wouldn't be used for generating sound, it just needs to carry a a weak inaudible signal to fire the trigger. There are youtube tutorials on building these but the parts are still relatively expensive for they are building the ones with high sound quality reproduction.
I believe such devices for guitars are built using UHF and ive seen some at 900mhz probably because latency is the biggest issue when sending wireless signals, and in order to fool the human ear and be able to play along, latency needs to be below 11 ms i believe. UHF accomplished this i imagine.
Any help for the parts and schematics would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
-Ryan