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Alesis DM10 bass drum is not working after mesh mod.
« on: December 30, 2015, 11:35:41 AM »
Hell all, I'm so happy to have found this forum. I've had my Alesis 10 for about a week now and I have attempted to do the mesh head upgrade (no solder.) I followed this video from 682 drums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIF3ksgP7Y . I ran into two issues. The biggest issue I am facing is now my bass drum does not work. However, if I take the conducer and tap it directly with my finger or a drum stick it will give me sound, a strong sound. I've fully taken it apart and checked the soldering and the soldering appears to be on point. If I reassemble the drum, whether it's with the mod or back to factory settings with the "sandwich" in order and the mylar head, I still get no reaction. I have noticed that the thin foam disk that the conducer/conducer plastic disk is glued to has a couple rips in it, but I don't think that should make it unusable. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what can be wrong? I don't understand what I could have done to break it. I was careful with the wires. I even checked the soldering on the jack when I had the pad fully apart.

EDIT: I just found this post http://community.alesis.com/alesis/topics/dm-10-kick-drum-problem and I will try fix it by re-initializing the module when I get home.

EDIT2: That reinitialize seem to get the bassdrum "working" but now I have a ton of crosstalk and most of the drums are the wrong sound. I am on hold with customer support now. I am trying to download updated firmware but all of the downloads give me "404 page not found"
« Last Edit: December 30, 2015, 04:55:06 PM by breticles »
Alesis DM10

Re: Alesis DM10 bass drum is not working after mesh mod.
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2015, 09:20:21 PM »
You will need to reset trigger settings and zone crosstalk now that you converted...

Search the forum for trigger settings..... it is better than customer service....

Good luck!
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Re: Alesis DM10 bass drum is not working after mesh mod.
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2016, 08:30:09 PM »
Thank you for the info. I before you posted, I called customer service and they told me to change the trigger settings and crosstalk settings. Man I spent probably 2 hours troubleshooting and figuring everything out, but I seem to be all good now. My bass trigger had come unsoldered and I had to redo that. No big deal. Thanks for the help.

Also, I highly advise reading the manual if you have not: https://5a18fcdc5c8aa2617926-54d68a14e2e7c1f76563a2d8c3e9fd82.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/917/documents/dm10_module___operator__s_manual___revc.pdf
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Offline rhysT

Re: Alesis DM10 bass drum is not working after mesh mod.
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2016, 02:04:55 AM »
FYI, if you want to avoid having to retweak settings for your kits and/or triggers after re-initializing the module, it's worth pre-saving a SYSEX backup of them to reload as required.
Check out the process in O/M (p31-4) and this topic: http://www.dmdrummer.com/index.php?topic=253.msg1966#msg1966
« Last Edit: January 04, 2016, 06:13:40 AM by rhysT »