Zildjian - Rick Allen's Def Leppard, 13" New Beat Hi Hat Bottom Trigger (RA #4003) SIGNED!!

Zildjian - Rick Allen's Def Leppard, 13" New Beat Hi Hat Bottom Trigger (RA #4003) SIGNED!! AUTOGRAPHED BY RICK ALLEN!!

Def Leppard is HUGE!! From humble beginnings in Sheffield, England in 1976, over 100 million albums later the band is selling out stadiums worldwide. One of few bands to earn an RIAA Diamond Award for 10 million albums sold. TWICE!! 

We’re thrilled to present the Def Leppard collection!! The collection includes hundreds of stage and tour used items from each member of Def Leppard. This massive collection includes items from every era of the band's 5 decade career. 

Here’s an amazing opportunity to own a true piece of Def Leppard history. Keep checking back, we’re adding more items every day.

Rick Allen's Def Leppard, 13" New Beat Hi Hat Bottom Trigger (RA #4003) SIGNED!!

Another ingenious Rick Allen innovation!! Once Rick Allen started experimenting with electronic drums in the mid-1980s, he's never stopped. He is constantly pushing the limits electronic drums and constantly searching for ways to improve them.

In the mid 1990s, Rick had the epiphany to trigger short 1/4 and 1/2 measure percussion loops from his hi-hats. In the very earliest versions his tech at the time, Tony Moon hot glued simple Piezo triggers to his bottom hi-hat cymbal. He eventually devised this more sophisticated trigger hi-hat cymbal with Peter Hart at Hart Dynamics. It's actually pretty basic, just a Hart sensor attached to his bottom hi-hat cymbal. The vibration picked up by the Hart sensor triggered a sampled hi-hat sound that was mixed with the acoustic hi-hat sound from the microphones on his set then fed to the front of house, before being unleashed on stadiums packed with rabid Def Leppard fans. He continued to use these trigger hi-hats with Def Leppard from 1995-2018.

Rick's longtime tech, Jeff Diffner talks extensively about these hi-hats and extensive details of Rick's Def Leppard touring set in the video below.

This custom cymbal trigger has been tested and it works great. It has been signed by Rick himself, and in your package we will include an assortment of offical Def Leppard tour passes and artifacts.

Includes a COA signed by Rick Allen.