Video guide to the Roland RT-30 acoustic triggers

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February 03, 2015 | area: Anaheim, CA USA | © drummerszone.com
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Roland introduced the RT-30 acoustic triggers at NAMM 2015. The electronic brand is way ahead on the competition when it comes to hybrid playing on your acoustic drums. With the RT-30 triggers you can easily add samples to your drum sound or make the studio sounds in music a live reality. Now, you don't have to use any other sampling pad or drum machine to create the sounds you need. The RT-30 triggers can do it all when you connect them to a TM-2 Trigger Module, or TD-series V-Drums sound modules, and SPD-series percussion pads. Jules Tabberer-Stewart, European Drum Product Manager for Roland, gives you literally all the info there is about the RT-30 triggers in the three videos with this article.

The Triggers
There are three available triggers, that all have their own specialty:

The RT-30H is a single-trigger device that provides drumhead-based triggering for most standard drums.
The dual-trigger RT-30HR offers independent head and rim triggering, allowing the user to play two different sounds from the same drum. This makes it ideal for use on snare.
The RT-30K is the bass drum trigger

All the triggers are set-up quick, with simple mounting on kick, snare, and toms. The Single trigger (RT-30H) and the Dual trigger (RT-30HR) can be stably mounted on nearly any metal drum hoop, including the latest S-hoop and C-hoop styles. The kick trigger goes on any bass drum hoop available out there.

Watch the videos for the full info and specs, some great tips and how Roland figured out how to tackle a common trigger-issue called 'miss triggering'. If you haven't tried hybrid drumming as of yet, you can start now. Not only because the RT-30 triggers are very affordable and, according to Jules, cheaper than the RT-10 series.

The videos

Introducing the Roland RT-30 Triggers (Single, Dual and Kick)
The RT-30 specs and advantages
The smart kick trigger

Jim Keltner, Jim Riley, John Tempesta about the RT-30's

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