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Koby triggers come in the single-zone tom version (£25, including cable) and a dual-zone snare option (£34). There’s also a bass trigger which fits to one of the bass drum lugs, and this sells for £27 with a cable. The latter two were not supplied for testing in this review.
Good Points: Easy to install ddt triggers sell for around €199 for a five-pack (snare, kick and three toms); €50 for a tom trigger and around €65 for the bass and snare units. All come with 4.5metre XLR cables. Good Points: Plug and play
Excellent triggering Three-year warranty
Bad points: Limited instructions
Not available everywhere
Koby
The British-made Koby triggers look very elegant, in an understated, minimalist sense. The single-trigger tom version supplied was a simple z-shaped aluminium chassis with a mounting hole on one end and a foam trigger arrangement on the other. It fits, like the basic ddrum product and the Pintech Trigger Trap, to the lug.
Easy to set up Very inexpensive
Bad points: Limited scope of physical adjustment
Need to remove a tension rod for installation
Pintech
Pintech offers two forms of external trigger: the simple stick-on encased piezo type, similar to Yamaha’s offerings, and the more engineered chassis type.
The button-type RS55 (RS-5 for acoustic heads) sticks onto the head while the jack attaches to a nearby tension rod. If this set-up feels too exposed, Pintech also has a Trigger Trap. A red metal housing reminiscent of ddrum’s Red Shots mounts on the rim via a tension rod and literally traps the sensor on the head.
The tom trigger was easy to install, and also benefits from a Velcro strip on the jack, which provides a neat solution for attachment.
Dialling in was a cinch, with the trigger happy in almost all of the TD-20’s presets – again, except for the Roland RT settings, where there was no response at the outer limits of the head. However, in most other settings, the responsiveness and dynamics were excellent. 26
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