Bought used Roland SPD-11 with extra drum pads. Not getting much/any sound from these external pads. Triggers on main SPD-11 unit, ok. Also, would like original user manual. Downloadable version anywhere??

Hi, With my sound engineers hat on I would use a small PA. mixer, amp and speakers!!!!
For quality you need a full, flat frequency range system with good headroom.
I assume this is for your own listening, when using an acoustic kit?
There are one box solutions.

1. Drum amps. Like a monitor wedge with an amp, Roland do a PM-10, Various other makes are available.
2. General purpose powered wedge.
3. Keyboard Amp, these are full range and available in various sizes.
4. Bass amp with high frequency driver (tweeter), not the best but will have good bottom end.
5. Powered or active speaker, much like a powered wedge, but a different shape, needs an input volume control.

All these systems need to have large bass units, 10 inch minimum, and will be in mono. Two will give you stereo,
How loud depends primarily on the sensitivity of the speaker. But manufactures insist on selling things by power. Worth looking this up.
At a couple of feet away, 20 watts should do it, with high sensitivity speakers, more likely you find most things as above start at about 70 Watts.
Good luck, I hope I have widened you choices a bit.
All the best, Chris the Fader.

this could be fixed at a cost of nearly 100$

get new speaker cord

I am not understanding the problem. Does it make any sound at all? If so Does the unit make all the sounds it was programed to do?

The polarity switch selects whether the pressure causes a positive or negative electrical spike. This can affect whether your drum MODULE fires on the hit or when the hit is lifted.

Thin plastic triggers are an electret plastic and have piezoelectric properties.when their shape is changed by pressure, etc.

You can reset Roland SPD-S by using Roland SPD-S utility CD supplied with product.
If you can't locate (or lost) the CD that is included with the SPD-S which contains the factory data, you can download the file here:

http://www.rolandus.com/products/pro...37&ParentId=61

Click the downloads tab and select the "SPD-S Factory Restore Data" (PC or Mac) link.

I think it helps.

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You must get a Roland or Boss B.R.A. adapter, I just got mine from Sweetwater for 27.00 or something like that, fixed the problem completely, no 3rd party adapters, it's rigged so you must buy theirs, If you use a 3rd party adapter, it will fire up, and run "analog" test error there after. I hope this helps somebody. Peace Out!!

ftp://ftp.roland.co.uk/productsupport/Manuals/

I think there is an option in the setup menu that makes the pad do this.... i remember reading it in the manual. sorry cant help more than that...

the trigger may have gone bad - I'm actually on line now looking for replacement parts.
open up the unit and that part looks like a coin, attached to a wire.