After I made my shells deeper as seen in My DM Strike post
http://www.alesisdrummer.com/index.php?topic=6685.0I tried out a cone method.
This worked ok but there were two problems.
The first was they were super bouncy. That might be good for some drummers but I am a pretty solid player. They are horrible to play and the sensitivity on them was down between 10 and 15.
The next problem was the hot spot. If i hit right on top of the little foam cones. Nuff said they had to go.
Here is one last shot of the setup. Kids, don't try this at home
It does not work on these pads.
The foam I got was they same type as the one Gerdy used in his post. That dark porous stuff they use in air con units or on speaker boxes.
The foam I got was 25mm (.98 inch). Gerdy used 2 x 5mm (10mm) on top. Mine is over twice as thick. We'll see how it goes..
The shells (especially on the 10" pad) was so deep I needed to stack up some foam under the plates.
Ideally I would have a single piece for form exactly right height. Here on the 12" pads I needed 4 circles of foam at 6mm (.2 inch) to raise the plate up. The 10 pads got 5 circles of form under the plate.
Once I had this foam in, I put the shell back over the dropped in the black form on top.
All done they look like this.
The pads feel great to play. All the bounciness is gone they feel solid and ready to rock and roll.
Sensitivity on the other hand has gone from extreme to poor.
On every pad the sensitivity is 90+. It works like that, no dead spots. Not hot spots. Responsive. Perfect.
I would just rather not have the sensitivity wound up to over 90.
To fix this I have two options.
1. I could remove the resistor from the output jack.
2. I could buy thinner foam for the top and just prop up the plate with more disks for foam underneath.
Of these option 1 seems the most likely.
Thoughts?