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15" Triple-Zone Crash/Ride on Roland TD-6
Setup — 15" Triple-Zone Crash/Ride on Roland TD-6
Use as 2-zone rideThe 15" Triple-Zone Crash/Ride works on your Roland TD-6 with reduced zones.
Bell
Bow
Edge
Wiring: 1× TRS from cymbal Ride 2, post-rewire → RIDE input (TRIGGER INPUT 11) on the rear panel — bow + bell
Single ride input — bow + bell only, no edge. Needs a one-time, reversible jumper move inside the cymbal (~10 min).
Rewire guide ›Cable routing
- Rewire the cymbal — move the internal red/black jumper from the Ride 1 input to the Ride 2 input.
- Connect a single 1/4" TRS cable from the cymbal's Ride 2 output to the RIDE input (TRIGGER INPUT 11) on the rear panel.
Module settings
- Hold [SHIFT] and press [EDIT (SETUP)] to enter setup mode, then select TRIG BASIC.
- Strike the ride so the display shows the RD input.
- Set the Trigger Type to CY-12H, CY-14C, or CY-15R — the TD-6 treats all CY types as 2-zone (bow + edge), so the ring conductor is read as the second zone (bell, after the cymbal rewire).
- Tune Sensitivity, Threshold, and Crosstalk until bow and bell strikes read cleanly.
- In your kit, assign a ride-bow instrument to the bow zone and a ride-bell instrument to the second zone — bow and bell hits will play through the connected cable as expected.
Tips
- The TD-6 labels the second zone as 'edge' internally, but after the cymbal rewire the ring conductor carries the bell signal — assign a ride-bell sound to that zone.
- The TD-6 has no dedicated bell input; unlike later Roland modules it cannot route a second cymbal input as a bell channel. Single-cable bow + bell via the rewire is the best configuration available.
- Full 3-zone (independent bow + bell + edge) is not available — the rewire trades edge for bell on the single cable.