Question about megadrum

[ole_hansen]

i might just have to go there sometime!!

[vodoochild_ar80]

HI japi, i miss read you, (you know my english is not so good), so later i'will send you a MP in spanish. (now i have a little SC tournament), thanks for the help japi.

sorry little offtopic here:
ole_hansen where i live is a nice place but the wind, the wind is alwas there at 50 60 kmh in the north is an eolic park and most of the time the mills (power generators) are always stoped cos' of the extreme wind, the most beautiful is the moon you can see the moon all day in the sky.

ok back to topic.
synthex your kit comes with everything included but i already have the atmega and the pic, can you sell the kit withuot those IC?

well thats all, thanks you all, and you know sorry my english

[Synthex]

synthex your kit comes with everything included but i already have the atmega and the pic, can you sell the kit withuot those IC?

It's possible, send me a private message with the list of components that you need.

[vodoochild_ar80]

Hi to all.
some more questions here but first i want to thanks japi , without his help i would never buy the kit from synthex, and of course to synthex and dmitri, without them, it would never exist such kit and would'nt found a new friend such as japi (and all of you to), and to all of you that lose time reading my questions so thanks to all of you.

The kit its on the mail so it should be here in a couple of weeks, but as i like to be prepare here are some questions.

ok question number one: just notice that the board its doble side, i never solder one of those, so... do i have to solder both sides?, how should i solder the IC? theres a tutorial somewhere that you recomend?.

question number two: the idea was to make all my edrum in the DIY way so i was planing to build the drumkit, but what way should i take, mesh heads or practice pad with the foam rubber and stuff.
For what i know (wich is little and close to nothing) mesh heads feels better and its more silent, and in my case much easy to make, but don't know how to make it a 2 zone for the snare; on the other hand i don't know nothing of the practice pad method so
share your wisdom with me, tell me your experiences with these methods.
ok thats all.
Thanks for the help and sorry for my bad english and the long reading.

[japi]

ok question number one: just notice that the board its doble side, i never solder one of those, so... do i have to solder both sides?, how should i solder the IC? theres a tutorial somewhere that you recomend?.

AFAIK. you solder only in one side. The IC is NOT soldered, what you solder to the board is the IC SOCKET. As for directions, just try to match the pin1 on all components (the pin with a square). Don't rush, if you have doubts just ask here.

question number two: the idea was to make all my edrum in the DIY way so i was planing to build the drumkit, but what way should i take, mesh heads or practice pad with the foam rubber and stuff.

Can't help you here, as I bought commercial pads, but I will be looking your build, if you are succesfull maybe I will make some pads in the future

[vodoochild_ar80]

Hi japi, of course sockets for the ic, but i was wandering how to solder the sokcets if i have to solder both side. Anyway i just research over the internet and found that the pads goes through the pcb, so of course i should solder one side.

As for my question number two i have a couple of this (don't understand how to post pics, so here is a link wich resembles what i have).
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA ... correa-_JM

I could easily turn them into mesh haeds, and if i want to expand my drumkit they hare also quite cheap, less than 15 dolars heach, and comes in many sizes,
but i want to know the experience of someone with the mesh heads, i play in a remo practice pad but it dont feels right, if you know what i mean, need some one to tell me if this feels right, if you know what i mean.

Thanks to all

[japi]

I see. AFAIK, most people turn the practice pads into triggers but I didn't found the remo pads here in Arg.
http://members.cox.net/ampage/triggers.htm

Let me know how you go with the "Murga" Snares

[vodoochild_ar80]

hi japi, hows work? seems you are quite busy.
i didn't play in a kit like that, it was just a remo pad (stand alone), the one you just put in your lap.

Ok like no one seems to answer about the mesh heads, i will just give it a try in one of the "murga" snares i have to see how it works on bounce, durability and on the loudness side.
I will use this tutorial i found, if someone finds one better please tell me

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Fib ... rum-Heads/

thanks and sorry my bad english

[japi]

Don't forget to take pictures of the process and post them here