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[John Chiara]

My business partner (he is a drummer) picked up one of those when it first came out. He was super excited, I gave it a fair shot... but it went back the next week 

It was an interesting device and I tried it at a few different venues. On the positive side if there are no good mics or if there is no one to dial things in it is a massive improvement. Personally, I would rather take the extra few minutes and properly mic kit with nice mics. I could never get enough snare out of it (i am aware you can buy an extra snare trigger/mic for the EAD10). I also found many of the settings to sound too processed.

It was an interesting device that does a lot, but personally, I did not find it very useful.

I will be micing the drums as normal, but drastically changing effects during a live show is not practical for me, so a dedicated, and changing drum FX return seems like it might be effective. I'll report. Got a small tour coming up with one band, Moriah Formica from The Voice, a harder rock show.

[Matthias McCready]

Ironically we were getting a little TOO much snare so we have switched out the brass snare he was using for a wood one... just goes to show it really depends on the  kit you start with and how it is tuned. The same thing we come across all the time when discussing kick drum mics.
We have also moved the ride a bit and everything is well balanced. If the drummer is not prepared to make a few changes to his kit, I can see this not working as well.

For me, it picked up gobs of ride, and I am passionate about getting enough snare (I mean even drummers are surprised by my passion when it comes to snare drums).

[John Chiara]

Ironically the drummer had to move his cowbell and wasn't happy... drummers are so set in their ways....

I need info on setting this up. The paper manual is crap. I by chance hit on trigger settings to adjust necessary parameters..mainly how to get it to work at all! Download page I can reach on iPhone contains a list of USB drives.
Help!!

[Debbie Dunkley]

I need info on setting this up. The paper manual is crap. I by chance hit on trigger settings to adjust necessary parameters..mainly how to get it to work at all! Download page I can reach on iPhone contains a list of USB drives.
Help!!

Oh no....I found the manual to be very straightforward John. What can I help you with?... Just the factory presets alone are excellent - just go through each one and choose one scene. Then save it to a user scene and play around with it.

[John Chiara]

Oh no....I found the manual to be very straightforward John. What can I help you with?... Just the factory presets alone are excellent - just go through each one and choose one scene. Then save it to a user scene and play around with it.

Can't get the trigger to work. I stumbled on a page with a 'rim' setting and  some other things but I can't get back to it. Are you speaking of the paper manual or downloaded manual?

[Debbie Dunkley]

Can't get the trigger to work. I stumbled on a page with a 'rim' setting and  some other things but I can't get back to it. Are you speaking of the paper manual or downloaded manual?

I downloaded the manual because the drummer took the paper manual with him. From memory they appeared to be the same but I could be wrong.
I found the trigger to just 'work'. Whichever scene you choose triggers a different sound for the kick, appropriate to the style of kit.
You can change the trigger sound by going into the user scene, hitting the 'trigger' button and navigating around that screen to change the drum type (kick / snare etc) to whatever trigger sound you like. That way you can apply any of the triggered kick, snare or pad sounds to any of the kits (scenes)....I don't have the EAD10 with me so this is from memory.

[John Chiara]

I downloaded the manual because the drummer took the paper manual with him. From memory they appeared to be the same but I could be wrong.
I found the trigger to just 'work'. Whichever scene you choose triggers a different sound for the kick, appropriate to the style of kit.
You can change the trigger sound by going into the user scene, hitting the 'trigger' button and navigating around that screen to change the drum type (kick / snare etc) to whatever trigger sound you like. That way you can apply any of the triggered kick, snare or pad sounds to any of the kits (scenes)....I don't have the EAD10 with me so this is from memory.

I have no trigger input...and when I found the 'rim' adjustment page I could get it to work.

[Debbie Dunkley]

I have no trigger input...and when I found the 'rim' adjustment page I could get it to work.

We used it on 2 different kick drums and didn't get problems but I suppose it depends on the rim shape and design. They provide those foam wedges to help with rims that are concave in shape.

[Chris Hindle]

I downloaded the manual because the drummer took the paper manual with him.

Wow, a drummer that reads ?
Have you house-broken the Bass Player yet ?
Chris.

[Tim McCulloch]

Wow, a drummer that reads ?
Have you house-broken the Bass Player yet ?
Chris.

Better... she married him.

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