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Anyone here know much about snare triggering?

I tried it out around 3 years back, but it was with a used snare trigger (Ddrum) and I used it in 2 shows where it was misfiring, so I decided never to use it again. The first show I used no padding, but on the second one I used a bit in the hope it would stop misfiring.

Have decided to try it out again - this time with Roland; not that it makes much difference, but makes since considering I have a Roland bass drum trigger. Last drummer I saw using a snare trigger live didn't use any padding/dampening on the snare and it was perfect.

My question really is - how much risk is there of misfiring and do I really need to pad it out? I'd rather not because I'd like to have a microphone on the snare and keep some good sounding acoustic snare with the consistency of the snare sample from the (Alesis DM5) module.

Cheers!

I also like the hybrid sound and use a mic live, so I don't pad out my snare much, but you do have to damper it, especially around with the trigger sits. It depends a lot on the tuning you use and skin. I use a hydraulic 2 ply head, aluminun snare tuned way the fuck up and use paper towel to dampen around the trigger (on the inside of the drum). So, acoustically my snare doesn't sound exactly how I would like it to, but sounds decent and it never misfires and catches every hit.