THE USE OF VIBRATION DAMPERS IN ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION

摘要

Electronic pads are drums, which do not produce an acoustic sound, but give off a pulse-signal by means of a microphone when they are hit. When several of these pads are mounted on a rack or stand and the pads are being played, crosstalk may appear. This phenomenom is highly undesirable, therefore vibrations must be damped. A new approach is to accomplish the damping of these vibrations not in the pad itself but in the connection of the pad to the rack or stand. By using silent-blocks as the only connection between pad and rack all vibrations are damped. This new approach has a couple of advantages, while the reduction or elimination of crosstalk does not have to be taken into account.