Extreme Drums X1-R Tandem trigger (installation / review) - tariff proof?

Extreme Drums kindly sent me a set of their USA designed and built 'X1-R Tandem' triggers to review. Here is my installation, review and testing video for folks interested.


A really interesting take on the side mount trigger by daisy chaining a couple of them together.

Let me know if you have any questions!

I've been using Xtreme triggers for 3-4 years, and now have 2 kits with them. I started my A-E adventures looking at external triggers. I tried several, including Roland. Then I went looking for internal triggers, and found Xtreme. They worked better than anything external I tried. Great customer service too.

ric drumm said:

I've been using Xtreme triggers for 3-4 years, and now have 2 kits with them. I started my A-E adventures looking at external triggers. I tried several, including Roland. Then I went looking for internal triggers, and found Xtreme. They worked better than anything external I tried. Great customer service too.

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That's great to hear! Yeah I agree about the customer service - Marshall has been a pleasure to deal with all the way through the review process, and yes they are a damn sight better than external triggers that's for sure

ric drumm said:

I've been using Xtreme triggers for 3-4 years, and now have 2 kits with them. I started my A-E adventures looking at external triggers. I tried several, including Roland. Then I went looking for internal triggers, and found Xtreme. They worked better than anything external I tried. Great customer service too.

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Years ago I tried the cheap DDrum red triggers (not the ones with the XLR jack, the ones with simple 1/4 jacks) the only reason I stopped using them was because I got a module that was capable of positional sensing so they got replaced by Roland pads. I only had one trigger go bad on me but it was a simple soldering the cable back into the piezo and for what I paid for them I would buy them again if I was making an A to D tom conversion.
As mentioned before the triggers were not capable of providing positional sensing because of being side mounted, but they worked flawlessly (and with Remo silent stroke heads at that). Nowadays there are tons of choices and most of them will give you great results. back in the day when I was making my drums there were basically only two choices Roland and DDrum or buying your own piezos and making your own triggers.
The only thing is to know that some modules are more sensitive (Roland) than others (Alesis) and they will require you to have a resistor in the chain to prevent you from overdriving the inputs.