Patent ID: 8121300

Claim:
A drum accessory comprising: (a) a housing for removably attaching to a drum via an attachment means; (b) a microprocessor disposed in an inner cavity of the housing, the microprocessor operatively connected to a power source; (c) an audio gate circuit disposed in the inner cavity of the housing and operatively connected to the microprocessor and operatively connected to a microphone; and (d) a drum trigger sensor operatively connected to the microprocessor, the drum trigger disposed on the attachment means and positioned to touch an edge of a drumhead of the drum, the drum trigger functioning to detect when the drum is hit by detecting vibration of the drum; wherein the microprocessor is configured to receive a first input signal from the drum trigger sensor when the drum trigger sensor detects that the drum is hit, wherein upon receipt of the first input signal the microprocessor generates a first output command to the audio gate circuit to activate the audio gate circuit to allow transmission of an audio signal from the microphone to an output location; wherein the audio gate circuit is set to automatically deactivate after a predetermined amount of time.