Yellow Cymbal

[dph11]

Hey Daniel here,

My yellow cymbal has stopped working completely and I think it may be the wire connecting it as I stretched it too much one time. But I don't want to buy the cable just yet if that isn't the problem. What troubleshooting can I do to see what the problem is? I have tried swapping the cymbals over and still, it is the one on the left side.

[SteveAdmin]

Hi dph11

Welcome to the forums!

You raise a good question that I think a lot of other people will benefit from so I will go through the troubleshooting steps to identify your problem:

1 - So one of your cymbals has stopped working eh? Which cymabl has broken - for the purposes of this example lets say it is the left hand (yellow) cymbal.

2 - As you correctly said the first step is to swap the cymbals over, so unplug both cymbals first then remove the cymbal screws and take both cymbals off, then put the right (orange) cymbal onto the left side of the drumkit and put the left (yellow) cymbal onto the right side of the drumkit and test them - the best place to test anything like this is in the music studio where you create a new song.

There are now two possible outcomes, both of which we will go over now:

3a - The same cymbal does not work no matter which side of the drumkit it is on - in our example this would mean that the yellow cymbal does not work even when plugged into the right hand side of the drum kit, this will indicate the problem is with the cymbal itself (the other slight possibility is that BOTH of your cymbal cables are broken but you would know this as neither of your cymbal would have worked before you started)

3b - The same cymbal works only when plugged into the other side of the drumkit - in our example this means that the yellow cymbal is fine when plugged into the right side of the drumkit, but now the previously working orange cymbal is not working when plugged into the left side of the drumkit where the yellow cymbal started off. This means that the cymbal cable on the left hand side of the drumkit is broken and needs replacing.

Hope this helps, get back to us if you need any more help.

[Crumpit]

Hi all, noob here

Just wanted to let you know I had the same problem and ordered one of your replacement cymble cables on guitarherorepair.com
I did basically the same fault finding as you wrote here which worked for me. The cable worked first time and was easy to fit cheers

Dont want to hijack your thread dph11, just want to say its an easy repair if your not sure.

[SteveAdmin]

Hi Crumpit

Thanks for adding that, it is all well and good us saying that it is an easy job but more better coming from someone else - by the mere fact you have done that i think you should promote yourself up from the rank of noob now!

Thanks

[ihazgh]

Hey,

I'm having the problem stated in 3a, however I was not able to find just a cymbal replacement on guitarherorepair.com . Do you know if I can buy it anywhere?

[SteveAdmin]

Hi Ihazgh

We are just getting some more in stock this week but we will not be shipping until after Christmas now, drop us an email via the contact us link on the website and we will put your name on the waiting list to ensure you get the first one avaliable.

Cheers