I began experimenting with some things. I knew from an electronics background that a $1 piezo transducer was the key element in most triggers. By using a Remo™ Tunable Practice Pad as a 'housing' for the design, I was able to produce dynamic triggering, with realistic response from edge to center. After extensive refinements, this incredible pad was born. This would have been the time where most companies design their own housing and go into production. Instead, I chose to continue using the inexpensive, commoditized shell of the practice pad, enabling the finished pad to be built for less than $20. I was tired of paying too much for trigger pads, I assumed many others were too. After having processed a Disclosure Document through the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in 1992, we marketed the completed pads through Modern Drummer and sold a number to individuals across the United States. Soon after, numerous others began housing designs in practice pads as well. While they looked the same, their internals (and subsequent performance) were not. Anyone familiar with my original design would have found these attempts laughable. So, to prove the superiority of this simplistic design, I freely published it to the public Internet in 1995...

A lot has changed in the last decade or more. Thousands of drummers have successfully built pads based on my original design, using readily available parts. Today, there are a staggering number of manufacturers in the electronic drum pad market. Why? It's not rocket science. While our pads have helped to force manufacturers to price theirs a bit more realistically, there is still an enormous amount of hype in the industry. While modules have made leaps and bounds, when you get past all of the buzzwords and gimmicks, you will find that all of these new bundled pads are STILL a housing for a piezo designed to simulate a real drum. Sure, the 'virtual silence' of mesh heads are the current rage. There's even a manufacturer with a kit built from a practice pad kit! Ironically, the technology we built in over a decade ago is only now being capitalized on by the big name manufacturers. Our centered piezo, real head, 'foam sandwich', plate backed design is the basis for the majority of the latest pads on the market. We design triggering devices using commercially available parts standards so YOU can easily build them YOURSELF, wherever you might live! We've got designs for cymbals and even a fully variable hi-hat controller that integrates into your existing acoustic hi-hat stand! Playing catch-up? Hardly! We had a stand-mount hi-hat pad with integrated controller YEARS before the big boys figured it out! We carefully engineer our design and project combinations, rather than taking the 'shotgun' approach made popular by others. It's laughable to take some of these apart and see how little there is to voodoo magic. Yes, we buy and try what's out there to help YOU make informed decisions with YOUR money. It's not all about DIY, in some cases the price of the factory part is quite reasonable. Wouldn't you like to know where these rare cases are? Let's face it, you can glue a piezo to just about anything and make it trigger to some degree. We're just a little picky about where we stick our piezo.

We design for the guy with a home studio and easily irritated neighbors... The guy who is given 6 square feet to set up in at clubs... The church that doesn't want the volume of a real drum set... Acoustic drummers who KNOW what a drum feels like and won't accept 'tennis-racket' or 'old-tire' substitutes... YOU, who wants a highly functional electronic drum kit without spending more than they should. Pro endorsers? As many pros don't even carry or SET UP their own drums, could we really expect them to BUILD THEM? Besides, then we would have to charge YOU more to make up for it...

In 1992, I started Logistix Percussion to market these pads, later to be incorporated in 1998 as Logistix Productions, Inc. (LOGIZTIX) The corporation I began has assumed the role of managing these pages and oversees continued triggering R&D. This is NOT our main business. We are primarily database and educational software developers. We do this because we love drumming. We offer the original design instructions absolutely free, because we know that after you build and play one, you will see the benefit in our knowledge and research enough to join the membership to get the rest of our carefully engineered designs. By joining the membership, you will help continue the R&D as well as support feature updates and maintenance to the site. We (drummers) all win. Even if you decide NOT to build your own, you will be a better informed consumer, able to distinguish the hype from the features that matter to you. You might even find some ways to improve the kit you already own. Who knows, you could even be a part of the NEXT innovation in electronic drumming that takes the big boys YEARS to figure out.

We are making all advanced designs, tips, accessories and forums available on a membership basis. The cost of improving and maintaining this site is funded only by our membership fees and referral commissions from this site.

Please use your Visa or MasterCard to obtain Quick Access to our Members Only pages via our on-line store. PayPal is accepted too. An option to the $20 Standard one-year Membership is our $35 Platinum Membership, giving you access to the site for as long as you (or it) exists.