Homemade Electronic Drum Kit:Coltronics Kit-e

This is my homemade electronic drum set. I call it the Coltronics Kit-e ("Kitty"). I made this video to show how I put it all together in case you might be thinking about making your own electronic drum kit. I came up with my own design. It started with a piezoelectric transducer soldered to a couple of wires and connected to a quarter inch phone jack. By trial-and-error, it morphed into what youre seeing in this video.
Ive had it for a number of years but its held up well. Im pleased with its design. Its compact. It works well. It was relatively inexpensive to put together using materials that are fairly easy to obtain. So check out the video. I hope it gives you some ideas.

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[AllInDrummer]

why does the piezos have a rubber spacer?

[WeakEndProductions]

To flush the piezo assemblies up to the top of the foam rubber 'window' that holds them all in place.

[david99soad]

( 1:51 )what kind of material are the spacers made of?

[WeakEndProductions]

It was rubber also but probably anything would work (wood, plastic, etc.)

[Chipdip25]

how do i get the HH to have opened tones and closed depending on the pedal?

[WeakEndProductions]

That depends on how your drum brain works. For the DM5, 'pedal only' makes pedal sound, pedal down and hi hat trigger equals 'closed' and pedal up and hi hat trigger equals 'open hit sound'. The pedal is a simple switch not a continuous controller.

[amutimer100]

That was a great video. I understood everything and your research will save a lot of us a *lot* time. Many thanks.

[calism23]

What fantastic, thorough demo.

[doggloverr1432]

Omgoshh!!!! I WANT THAT!!! haha I always wanted a drum set. ;[

[rhythmantic]

Incredible and fascinating. What a fabulous design and a quality video production and narration.

[jkravitz61]

@AllInDrummer if you're any good with electrical stuff, try amplifying each individual signal

[AllInDrummer]

i have a problem i think. it seems that the piezos i got are not sensitive enough even after i pump the gain on my dm5 to 99 :S if any one have stumbled upon such problem please PM me :) thanks

[georgiowee]

wonderful! a great muse-carpenter

Best Regards

[MrCrgl]

Excellent video