TRS Socket question

[drummaniac]

hello, i'm new to DIY drumming

well the point is that, i have advanced principles of electronic (studying)

but i have a question concerning the TRS connectors...

well i have investigates a little and i know how this things works.. more or less...

my first question comes

when people say Tip= hot, Ring = cold , Sleeve = shield , what does that mean?

shield should be ground, hot and cold comes from polarity?
and how is this presented in megadrum?

i mean... when i'm connecting the jack inputs to the 32 input bus. wich pin goes with wich part of the TRS?
i'm ussing Synthex pack, i have read his pdf concerning the pins, but it's not totally clear for me if i have to connect Tip or Ring to the pins, with the exception of the Sleeve that goes to ground, that's very clear, but when let's say pin 5= Kick
that goes to ring or tip?

well that's about it.. thx for the help

counting on your advice, can't really do anithing without that piece of info xD
thx

[elrules]

The tip is always the main channel, the ring is secondary. For example, for the kick, that is a mono input, you should connect only tip and sleeve. For any stereo input, connect the tip to the bow/head half-input of the stereo pad, and the ring to the edge/rim half-input of that pad.