[guss]

I am searching online and found some triggers for sale, ddrum and I have seen them around, but have no clue what they do.

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There are two types of sensors; Piezo triggers and FSR triggers.

Piezo simply works off of vibration. You can place a Piezo trigger on almost anything and get it to send a signal to your processor. As long as whatever you strike can produce a vibration, the trigger can read it, send it to the barin and produce sound.

FSR (Force Sensing Resitor) simply works by pressure that you apply to a pad. The Roland Handsonic uses FSR.

Hope this helps!
GearHead Joe

[SirBlastsAlot]

Heres something in easier language....

Its a more direct way of mic'ing your drums... the trigger clamps to the hoop of your snare, tom, or kick drum, and there is a foam pad with sensors and wires in it that detect the vibration from your drum and sends that to a module, which in turn can be modified to give you the desired sound from your drums....

Some drummers view triggering as "cheating" because no matter how hard you hit the drum, it will still send the same volume to the speakers.... Also, triggers can give you a wider library of sounds you can play with when it is ran through a module (Roland usually is you best bet)

Now for compaines, I have heard that Rolands are a bit more reliable that ddrums (I was talking with Kevin Talley after a Dying Fetus show and he told me he broke his ddrum triggers while on tour, and he tried getting replacements from ddrums headquarters and was not able to, he says it took him about 2 months to get replacements) Also, ddrum makes two (I believe) differant qualities of their triggers
here is ddrums triggers
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hope this helps

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