Hey! First off. I love you. THANK YOU. You're the ONLY person on RUclips to explain this whole process.. it was driving me insane trying to figure this out. Secondly, quick question. For the choke, I would like to be able to extend the choke wider, as in extend the piezo wider to allow me to have a greater amount of space to grab, so if I'm at a right or left angle from the cymbal, I can just grab the cymbal at any angle without having to go to the front of the cymbal first to then grab and choke it. How would I go about that? What material could I use that will make the piezos wider? Perhaps alluminum, or some other type of material? Could I add a second or third piezo disk to the choke? If so, how would the extra piezos be wired? I'm just hoping to have the entire front half of the cymbal chokable from any front angle. What do you think would work best? (Sorry for all the questions, I'm still a semi beginner in all of this.)
@@luisfilipe1983 Ah I see! Thank you so much man! Would just one piezo on the choke do the trick? Also, I assume I just glue the aluminum to the peizo with normal glue? I don't want to block the connection between the piezo and alluminum sheet by putting glue in between them.
Hey Luisfilipe, great tutorial!. Couldn't you just solder the wires from the choke directly on to the piezo plus and minus? All you're doing then is shorting out the piezo and cutting the signal to the module. That's how it looks to me intuitively. I've got a brand new drum-set and the crash doesn't have a choke. Your idea seems a very good fix, and your thoughts are welcome... Cheers, Martin
Hey again Luis! Sorry to bother so much with questions. lol but I just really want to know, does the choke that you created pick up the edge of the cymbal as well? I'm very interested in doing exactly what you did with the bell piezo, bow piezo, and choke using a split in half piezo, but I would also like to have an edge on my cymbals as well, because my Yamaha DTXpress IV drum module accepts 3 zone cymbals.. So my question is, would the cut in half choke piezo sense my edge hits? or would I need to add another piezo near the edge for the edge hits? If I do have to add another piezo for edge hits, how would it be wired? Positive piezo wire to what, and Negative piezo wire to what? I really appreciate all your help btw. You have no idea how much all of your videos are helping me daily to learn how to make my DIY drums and cymbals. So many articles even on Google, have a lot written, but expired pictures, which then makes all of the written instructions basically gibberish to me since I'm semi new in circuitry and need a visual. lol So seeing actual well explained videos by you helps so much in understanding and learning. :)
Hello, i think you do need to add another piezo...but how it would be wired... that depends on your module options...you must check on the module what is the edge hit connector and wire to that.
Hey Luis! It's me again, two years later. lol Sorry for all the questions, but I have yet another for you. lol I hope you don't mind! So, after all this time, I've finally gotten my 28 peice prog rock drumset mostly built, which consists of two Yamaha DTX PRO modules, and I'm in a predicament where I have one input left on one of the modules, and I need a splash cymbal on right of that that also has choke, the only problem is.. that last input is a single zone input. It's from the tom input of the module that's split into 2 single zone pads. So, I was thinking, since it's only a single zone pad, but I do want choke (which Yamaha doesn't have single zone pads that support choke) that maybe there's a way for me to short the connection of the single piezo, without needing two? My idea is, would it be possible to short the single peizo by touching it with another piezo? or maybe cutting the piezo in half and touching it with itself? I was thinking I could buy somthing like a Yamaha PCY65S cymbal then mod the inside of it, by moving the internal piezo it has to the edge of the inside of the cymbal pad, then finding a way on how to mute it while it's at the very edge. Like that the splash can register normal hits, but also be in the edge of inside the cymbal so I can also use it for choking on the rim edge of it. So I remembered your video, and how you're a master at this stuff, so I decided to ask you here, because even though I did ask you a few questions in the past, I still having gotten around to building any cymbals yet as I decided to buy all Yamaha cymbals since this is for professional use, and I didn't want to have a cymbal that might break on me. But now, due to me running out of inputs, I think it may be time for my first electric cymbal build. So, what are your thoughts on this? Any ideas? Also, can you tell me what I would sauter what to in order to accomplish my single zone splash cymbal with choke? That's probably the biggest mystery for me here. Thanks SO much in advance again Luis. I always appreciate your help and feedback! :)
Awesome video,Keep it up!
Impressive.
Hey! First off. I love you. THANK YOU. You're the ONLY person on RUclips to explain this whole process.. it was driving me insane trying to figure this out.
Secondly, quick question. For the choke, I would like to be able to extend the choke wider, as in extend the piezo wider to allow me to have a greater amount of space to grab, so if I'm at a right or left angle from the cymbal, I can just grab the cymbal at any angle without having to go to the front of the cymbal first to then grab and choke it. How would I go about that? What material could I use that will make the piezos wider? Perhaps alluminum, or some other type of material? Could I add a second or third piezo disk to the choke? If so, how would the extra piezos be wired? I'm just hoping to have the entire front half of the cymbal chokable from any front angle. What do you think would work best?
(Sorry for all the questions, I'm still a semi beginner in all of this.)
You can simply use a wider aluminum sheet, to make the contact between positive and negative wires
@@luisfilipe1983 Ah I see! Thank you so much man! Would just one piezo on the choke do the trick? Also, I assume I just glue the aluminum to the peizo with normal glue? I don't want to block the connection between the piezo and alluminum sheet by putting glue in between them.
Hey Luisfilipe, great tutorial!. Couldn't you just solder the wires from the choke directly on to the piezo plus and minus? All you're doing then is shorting out the piezo and cutting the signal to the module. That's how it looks to me intuitively. I've got a brand new drum-set and the crash doesn't have a choke. Your idea seems a very good fix, and your thoughts are welcome... Cheers, Martin
Hey again Luis! Sorry to bother so much with questions. lol but I just really want to know, does the choke that you created pick up the edge of the cymbal as well? I'm very interested in doing exactly what you did with the bell piezo, bow piezo, and choke using a split in half piezo, but I would also like to have an edge on my cymbals as well, because my Yamaha DTXpress IV drum module accepts 3 zone cymbals.. So my question is, would the cut in half choke piezo sense my edge hits? or would I need to add another piezo near the edge for the edge hits? If I do have to add another piezo for edge hits, how would it be wired? Positive piezo wire to what, and Negative piezo wire to what?
I really appreciate all your help btw. You have no idea how much all of your videos are helping me daily to learn how to make my DIY drums and cymbals. So many articles even on Google, have a lot written, but expired pictures, which then makes all of the written instructions basically gibberish to me since I'm semi new in circuitry and need a visual. lol So seeing actual well explained videos by you helps so much in understanding and learning. :)
Hello, i think you do need to add another piezo...but how it would be wired... that depends on your module options...you must check on the module what is the edge hit connector and wire to that.
Are the 2 split piezo both positive connected piezos?
Hey Luis! It's me again, two years later. lol Sorry for all the questions, but I have yet another for you. lol I hope you don't mind! So, after all this time, I've finally gotten my 28 peice prog rock drumset mostly built, which consists of two Yamaha DTX PRO modules, and I'm in a predicament where I have one input left on one of the modules, and I need a splash cymbal on right of that that also has choke, the only problem is.. that last input is a single zone input. It's from the tom input of the module that's split into 2 single zone pads.
So, I was thinking, since it's only a single zone pad, but I do want choke (which Yamaha doesn't have single zone pads that support choke) that maybe there's a way for me to short the connection of the single piezo, without needing two? My idea is, would it be possible to short the single peizo by touching it with another piezo? or maybe cutting the piezo in half and touching it with itself? I was thinking I could buy somthing like a Yamaha PCY65S cymbal then mod the inside of it, by moving the internal piezo it has to the edge of the inside of the cymbal pad, then finding a way on how to mute it while it's at the very edge. Like that the splash can register normal hits, but also be in the edge of inside the cymbal so I can also use it for choking on the rim edge of it. So I remembered your video, and how you're a master at this stuff, so I decided to ask you here, because even though I did ask you a few questions in the past, I still having gotten around to building any cymbals yet as I decided to buy all Yamaha cymbals since this is for professional use, and I didn't want to have a cymbal that might break on me. But now, due to me running out of inputs, I think it may be time for my first electric cymbal build.
So, what are your thoughts on this? Any ideas?
Also, can you tell me what I would sauter what to in order to accomplish my single zone splash cymbal with choke? That's probably the biggest mystery for me here.
Thanks SO much in advance again Luis. I always appreciate your help and feedback! :)
Great video. I plan on doing this but instead, i'll just use 2 piezo's instead of chopping one in half.
wow!please let me Know sir....
what is the correct TRS cable...?
balanced mono(+, -, shield)? or
unbalanced stereo(+, +, common -)?
민규 김 unbalanced stereo
Thank you very much~~~~
Please give details of connection sir please
Hi nice built.. Can you share your Arduino code?
Black Angel you can find it on "instrumento caseiro" channel that guy as all the download links on is videos
I found it and downloaded all files, thanks. What are the Python (pyd) files for?
Black Angel good question...i can't remenber if used those and what for...lol
AWSOME VIDEO... good work.. i started to make arduino tutorials, if you want please check them out and tell me what you think ... thank you