Building the Yamaha Billy Cobham Signature Drum Kit Part One
Hello gentle readers and welcome to 2026! It's been a minute since my last blog. In the interim I have finally begun to complete my latest acoustic to electronic drum kit conversion of Yamaha's Billy Cobham Signature Drum Kit! Back in January of 2018, I wrote about "Building the Yamaha Billy Cobham Signature Snare Drum" , with an eye to building an entire kit with an identical silver sparkle finish. Now, some 9 years later I've finally gotten around to gathering and assembling the shells, lugs and wraps when a new thought hit me, "Why don't I make the kit entirely electronic, just like those made by Roland, DWe and EFNote?" My earlier experiments with internal drum triggers were met with mixed results; (The ddrum Chrome Elites, Pintech, Roland and even the wireless Versatriggers external triggers were decent, but never were consistent or reliable enough to play live regularly. Then I discovered the folks in Hungary called "Padtech", who ma...