Hi Chaser, many thanks for your reply and insight. You kinda confirmed my suspicions, so I bit the bullet and ordered the snake from the US.
I'm going to try to not think about how much money I would have saved if I had just gone for the Nitro in the first place. Instead I'll put it down to a learning experience and focus instead on the joy that being able to sit down and instantly play the drums, almost silently, at the press of a button brings!
So pleased I found this forum! Will engage as much as I can..
One other thing...and you are going to hate hearing it..the Turbo and Nitro use different size Hi Hat Controller cables/pedals....
The DB25 harness for the Nitro uses a
TRS 1/8" (3.5mm) which is a V2 (DMHat)Hi hat pedal.
You can zoom in on the sellers photo and confirm..
I see a number of sellers offering the pedal with a 1/4" (6.35mm) TRS cable and a 1/4" (6.35mm) to 1/8"(3.5mm) TRS adapter..and listing Modules that never used a TRS cable... Here is an
exampleHere is a
V2 is from the same seller you purchased from ..and the Turbo pedal
here the pedal you have is probably 1/4"(6.35mm).
You could try an 1/8"(3.5mm) to 1/4"(6.35mm) stereo adapter and see if your pedal will work.
I haven't had the opportunity of owning/taking the V2 apart and confirm what the actual difference is and Alesis has never responded , most pedals are TS though I have seen modules using a
TRS cable the pedal has a resistor inside on the ring.
I don't know why Alesis did this other than they may have purposely changed the input size because the Nitro/Surge modules also have 1/2 open (as did the
DM7X which the Nitro replaced,but the DM7X used the Realhat continuous/variable pedal...confused yet?) where as the DMHat is normally open/closed only...MIDI MAP Attached
If you don't want to chance it you could ask the seller to combine shipping and sell the other one from the Turbo kit
EDIT:Added Links..MIDI MAP