Members dinnerpianist Posted February 20, 2008 Members Share Posted February 20, 2008 Anyone own the Yoki units? Is the brain (notthe pads and rack) holding up? Pads can always be repaired and even improved upon if one knows the technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boose44 Posted February 20, 2008 Members Share Posted February 20, 2008 Well, as someone who is still fixated on owning large resonating membranes and flashy chrome scaffolding my advice is to simply skip the cheap stuff. You get what you pay for, and cheap pads = cheap pads. Esp. if you have young apes who like to weld their clubs with serious velocity. The best I would recommend is any of the older Roland pads. Anything from PD-5's, 7's or 9's. You can still find them fairly cheaply here and there and they are built like tanks. True, they aren't fully compatible with the newest TD-20's, but I doubt you'll be wanting to use brushes with them anyway. -bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dinnerpianist Posted February 20, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 20, 2008 The students build their own pads out of 16 gauge steel 4" diameter, velcro and neoprene isolation between the steel and a plexiglass base. Neoprene rubber is used for the striking surface. Regular radio shack piezo but with special two stage adhesive procedure and special soldering and wiring once extracted from their plastic encasement. We've opened up just about every pad to examine how to best improve on builds. The most rigorous designed were the S&S Xwings but even they eventually lost adhesion integrity of the rubber striking surface. The DW Terry Bozzio three zone pads were sort of interesting but not well thought out. The raised sides were a bad idea.j Better to stick with what we've come up with in class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boose44 Posted February 20, 2008 Members Share Posted February 20, 2008 Doesn't matter. Yoki's, OSP, Diddle-diddles. They're still crap. Avoid at all cost. Try vdrums dot com for a good forum and knowlegable DIY's. Even though it's Roland based, they are very fair and helpful. -bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thwacker Posted March 12, 2008 Members Share Posted March 12, 2008 sorry to disagree but I like my Yoki although I replaced the heads with a mesh head conversion kit i got from ebay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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