(Damn wasn’t easy to find this community, still have to get the hang of lemmy. Great to have found you guys)
Hey guys, just bought a couple of On Triggers for the kick, those things you paste under your footboards of your pedals and align with the position when the beater hits the head. Pretty interesting concept, seems to work nicely on my e-kit with just using a Y- cable to put both triggers in one trigger input.
Moving to my acoustic kit, however, I use an Alesis Samplepad for samples and kick triggers. The same configuration, both triggers via a Y-splitter in the kick input makes one sound much softer. Sensitivity settings don’t help much.
Interstingly, when using a very small mixer with just both triggers in a line-in and the main out towards the trigger input on the Samplepad seems to work perfectly. But damn, lot of messy cable nonsense and it doesn’t feel like the best solution.
Anyone know a good way to work on this? Preferably without buying a new Samplepad/Module with more inputs, that’s my plan B :')
It must have something to do with the type of input.
Ideally, I believe you would want your Y splitter to mix both sides from mono to stereo. Therefore you would want each pedal trigger to have a stereo to mono adapter, so each pedal is sending the full signal through the splitter which converts it back to a stereo signal for the brain to accept.
I hope I worded that correctly, forgive any misunderstanding or anything as I typed this while walking on my lunch break.
Tried some different types of splitters now. Had one 2xmono to mono splitter, which had the left trigger softer. a 2xmono to stereosplitter works on my e-kit module because it has dual zones, so seperate triggers can be set up as I want. However, the samplepad is apparently just a single-zone trigger input because it only recognizes one trigger (apparently that’s a mono input).
I now see that you also said a stereo-mono adapter on each trigger, haven’t tried that. I think that these triggers are just mono (based on other triggers I worked with, but it sounds like a thing to check).