Adding a trigger in...

[inverseroom]

I just scored a bizarre little item on eBay for $20--a Russian-made handclapper pedal!  It makes a clap sound, and has knobs for pitch, release, and pad sensitivity.

Believe it or not, it's pretty great--I ran it through a delay and found it very easy to create wild polyrhythms.  Lots of fun.

But here's something I'd like to try: I have a couple of those little red ddrum triggers in my studio.  I keep one on my floor tom where it is used to trigger an analog kick drum sound (don't ask), and would like to put another on the snare and have it trigger a handclap.  This way I could get that 80's snare-clap sound, yeehah!

Is there a universal sort of way to rig a trigger input that would trigger the handclap the same way the pad does?  I suppose this would depend on your seeing the schem of the pedal, but I haven't traced it, and of course everything inside is in Russian, including the backs of the pots.  (Also, the ceramic caps are... *drum roll* SQUARE!!!)

If anyone has an idea, let me know...

[moosapotamus]

You probably don't need to trace out the circuit, just the trigger portion of it. Can you figure how that part of it works? Is there a pad on the pedal, wires connecting to the PCB, perhaps? Try disconnecting them from the pad and rigging them to your red-dot trigger somehow? Maybe? How do those red-dots work, anyway?

~ Charlie

[triskadecaepyon]

first time anyone's been grateful for the claps.

[inverseroom]

first time anyone's been grateful for the claps.

Word.  The clap is back!

I'll try and come back with some more info...