Snare made from guitar pickup?

[mikeb]

http://www.jokeroo.com/extremevideos/homemade_snare_drum.html

Seeing as this forum is international, hopefully someone can translate what the guy is saying. I've no clue what language he's speaking.

[henrygr]

Havn't a clue what he is saying, but I would guess the pick up goes into a preamp, and then through an app like Jamstix to trigger the saple! No?

Mark.

[Screaming_Rabbit]

Havn't a clue what he is saying

... me neither  ;D

If it works the way I'm guessing. - I just can say: The cheaper and crapier the Pick-Up, the better it will work.

[mikeb]

I found an explanation for that video. I don't know that this is exact or from the creator:

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[tt]I made a "home made Drum" out of a guitar pickup and a string installed within a piece of sponge. I use Reaktor to translate the signal with its amplitube to snare drums. Each punch, with sound a snare drum (not the same snare all the time, it changes after every puch) and it has a the amplitude of the punch. It is very sensitive and there are some great stuff i can do with the reaktor , like setting the dynamic range.[/tt]

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