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Notepad
High-quality hand-built drum pads
Brighten up your drum kit, percussion set-up or studio with a really striking addition to the world of electronic percussion. The Wernick Notepad is a hand built electronic drum pad with a unique silicon rubber playing surface. It fits neatly into standard drum hardware and is a great way to expand live playing and make recording much less hassle. The Notepad has been professionally proven to be hard wearing and playable enough to satisfy even the most demanding musician. So why not join in the electronic percussion revolution and brighten up your kit with elerctronic sounds and the Wernick Notepad.
The heart of the Notepad is its patented “Wernick Percussion Pad” technology. The clever design makes the Notepad a highly sensitive and playable instrument capable of translating all the expression the musician puts in. It can be played with sticks or hands and gives feel of acoustic playing without having to appreciably alter your playing style. Thanks to their easy mounting system, which fits standard drum hardware, Notepads can be set up around an existing drum kit in the easiest playing position for the musician involved. They can also be arranged and played as a percussion palette style instrument. Either way the Notepads silicon rubber playing surface and damping system ensures that cross-talk is kept to a minimum and that the Notepad performs perfectly every time.
The engineering design of the Notepad gets around a lot of the problems other manufacturers solve electronically. It also sets the Notepad apart as the hardest wearing of any of its competitors. Deliberate bad treatment on the road by a number of musicians has proved beyond doubt that all its top quality components can stand up to the hardest battering. Another great feature of the Notepad is the range of day-glo and special custom colours. They can be used to easily identify what each Notepad is triggering and really add to the looks of any drum kit or percussion set-up.
Many professional drummers and percussionists have recognised the Notepads qualities. Norman Hassan from UB-40 who’s used the Notepad in the studio and on stage says; “I’ve been playing electronic drums for most of my career and these are the best I’ve ever tried”. Other professional players who’ve seen the advantages of the Notepad include Pablo Cook (William Orbit/the Grid), Jet Black (Stranglers), Ted Duggan (Banco de Gaia), Stuart Cable (Stereophonics), Mark Roberts (Neneh Cherry/D’Ream/Massive Attack/DJ Rap) and Douglas Caskie (Geneva). They all agree the flexibility and playability of the Notepad is second to none. They also represent a wide range of musical and playing styles reflecting the flexibility of the Notepad.
The Notepad also provides music schools and drum tutors with an invaluable teaching aid. A small system including Notepads, connectors and a sound module can easily be taken anywhere and used with headphones for silent, hassle free practice. The bright day-glo colours also appeal to young children whose appreciation for percussion is legendary.
The Notepad has been used with most of the percussion sound modules capable of triggering drum pads currently available. Musicians seeking to recreate the perfect individual sound for them can use a sampler combined with a MIDI converter unit.
The Notepad provides a flexible way to get into electronic percussion for the first time or add to your existing set-up. It’s playability marks it out from other electronic drum pads and it’s the ideal way to really expand the boundaries of your drumming.
KikNotepad
Rugged electronic kick drum pad
The KikNotepad is an electronic kick drum designed to cope with every type of playing. Like the Notepad™ its silicon rubber playing surface gives it a great feel and it’s engineered to deal with the hardest playing conditions.
The KikNotepad is fitted with 8mm spiked screws giving extra confidence it won’t move around during playing. The spikes are fitted with rubber covers so you don’t have to damage the floor if you don’t want to. They also eliminate the need for any awkward drum key fiddling as they ‘re fitted with a wide plastic head you can turn with your fingers. For extra piece of mind the distinctive bright chrome weights add two extra kilogrammes to the KikNotepad making it even more stable.
The KikNotepad playing surface has the same lively bounce back feel as the Notepad™. This realistic bass drum feel is achieved through the unique characteristics of the silicon rubber which are combined with a specially designed beater head. The beater head is a light aluminium block with a foam rubber contact surface giving the KikNotepad a real players feel. Its easy to use screw lock fitting means that you can also fit another beater head you feel more comfortable with. The Beater Arm is made from solid 6mm steel and fits most bass drum pedals.
The KikNotepad also comes supplied with a small aluminium spacer bar designed to help with pedal fitting. Its professional quality XLR connector is slightly offset on the back of the playing surface to make sure whatever pedal you use it won’t interfere with your connection.
The KikNotepad’s playing surface is easily wide enough to accommodate two beaters making double pedal techniques possible on only one KikNotepad. When combined with the Notepad™ the KIkNotepad can be part of an effective great looking electronic kit and is and affordable and easy way to cure all your kick drum blues.
PercPad
High sensitivity hand percussion pads
The Wernick PercPad is the world’s first electronic pad designed specifically for hand percussionists.
Its Ash wood playing surface combines the warm organic feel of an acoustic hand drum with all the capabilities of electronic music. It’s based on the successful Notepad, using the same patented Wernick Percussion System technology to achieve unrivalled levels of sensitivity and range. The PercPad isolation system starts with the playing surface which sits on free floating suspension mounts inside a rugged ABS tray.
On the back there’s a foam mounted steel housing for mounting the PercPac on its frame. There’s also a locking XLR connector there too ensuring that the plug can’t come loose even under the hardest playing conditions.
The PercPad isolation system is finished off with two simple T Nuts ensuring thePercPad is in minimum contact with its frame.
PercPad Iso Frames are available to fit two and four PercPads. They have further isloation features including a free floating collar piece and are finished in bright chrome. They fit standard drum hardware. PercPads also fit our standard Frames which are available to fit one, two, four, six and eight Pads.
The PercPad can be used with any commercially available drum brain with trigger inputs and also with Wernick Musical Instruments upcoming Trigger to MIDI converter unit. With high specification brains such as the Roland TD-10 or ddrum 4 the levels of expression and layering capabilities can be awesome.
The Wernick PercPad is not an electronic conga or bongo. It’s a new kind of musical tool for hand percussionists giving them the opportunity to make great music with the tap of a finger.