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Hi guys

Well, my Simmons obsession (started back in July this year, I think when I saw La Roux performing with a non-functioning Simmons kick drum, and a light bulb went on in my head) has made good progress. I have a 12 piece kit made out of black SDS-9 pads and a couple of SDS-1s, plus a SDS-V (bass, snare, 3 x toms), a SDS-800 and a Trixer (quite nice samples on this one). I'm a happy man.

Now then. I am not lucky enough (yet) to have a Hihat module for the SDS-V. (Anybody got one to spare? No, thought not.) So far I am making do by using two channels of the SDS-800 to simulate a closed hihat and an open hihat. It's not too realistic, but I didn't buy Simmons to get realistic. :-)

Problem at the moment is that I am using two pads to trigger the two channels. Not very natural, and a waste of a pad really.

I'm sure I've seen a hihat pedal which takes a single input from a trigger pad, and then has two outputs, one for when the pedal is pressed and the other for when it is open. Obviously I'd be able to use this to route the trigger from the pad to either of the two SDS-800 channels depending on the position of the pedal.

However I now cannot find a pedal which seems to operate like this, even though I'm sure I saw something like this once. I think it may have been called Electrohat or Electohat but searching for this on Google doesn't come up with anything useful.

Does anybody have any ideas? Is there a product out there which will do the job for me? The irony is that most of the hihat pedals out there seem too complex or advanced - I need something really simple!

Thanks in advance for any advice! And many thanks to those who have already been able to offer advice over the last six months or so - it's been hugely appreciated by me.

Happy holidays

Aaron