A good snare drum for positional sensing with megadrum??

[Marsh2112]

I`d like to invest in a nice 13" or 14" snare and take advantage of the positional sensing feature.

Does anyone know if the old harts dynamics snare will do the trick?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/drums-pe ... -mesh-head

Or if the pintech mesh snare here will do it?

http://pintechworld.com/shop/phx14/

I read the following requirements:
--it may work only with mesh type pads with a centrally positioned piezo.
--the pad must not be too hot. If it is too hot it must be "cooled" with a voltage divider.
--the first half wave of a signal from a pad should be positive, e.g my Pintech mesh snare is such a pad. Most of other mesh pads out there, like Roland, Drumtec and etc, produce a negative first half wave. In this case you will have to use a full wave precision rectifier.

...and wondering if one of the above snares will do the trick?

[ignotus]

The Harts snare should work no problem - I couldn't find whether the Pintech has a central piezo but I'm pretty sure it does, so that would do as well. If you have the positional sensing board you won't need any voltage dividers and won't have to worry about piezo polarities either.

[Marsh2112]

thank you for that info!