Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I find the 3 zone rim a winner in the "great idea" department of pad 
design features. The two rims are very responsive and the side stick 
rim is positioned such that it's where you would hit if laying the 
side stick rim on a real snare, well done Yamaha! The way the TP 120 
works and rim design is the best snare pad I've played yet. Not to 
put down Roland's nor Pintech snares which are very nice for silent 
mesh pads, but the TP 120 feels more like the real deal rebound 
wise. When I practice my rudiments and snare techniques I can assign 
different voices to the two rims. So I can have snare in the middle, 
tom on one rim and a highhat on the other. I cam do mimd drum solo's 
just on the snare pad. The 3 zone tom tom  pads can also be 
programmed to have different voices thus opening the kit up to a 
myrid of sounds. You could do a gig just with a snare, tom and kick 
pad as one would have 6 triggers to hit so to speak. Great for going 
to a practice without dragging a kit around! Stick me in a corner 
with those and call me the wedding drummer heh. I never tried a 
ddrum pad with real drum head so I bought one and waiting for it to 
arrive. Want to compair it to the TP-120 as D Drum makes very nice 
stuff. Will post my results though it's ment for ddrum and I'm 
saving for a DDrum module to add to my collection of modules. Not to 
get off track but want to compair the two. Anyone have any thoughs 
about how the Xtreme's compair to DDrum? I think Yamaha tried real 
hard to mimic the great D Drum in many ways and hopefully they did. 
Geting off topic. Just some thoughts. 
> know how responsive the rims are on the TP120S.  My old two-zone 
> snare pad is a bit dodgy with the rim sound - sometimes it fires, 
> and sometimes it doesn't, depending on the angle of the stick. I'm 
> in a country band, so I use cross-stick quite a bit (currently I 
get 
> that sound through a bar-pad).  Does it matter what angle you hit 
> ther cross-stick rim?  
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "drumsonly2002" <dan@n...> wrote:
> > Time for a spell checker, sorry for the mistakes.
> > 
> > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "drumsonly2002" <dan@n...> 
wrote:
> > > With regards to the pads, Les Paul once said people "hear" 
with 
> > > their eyes. He then made the Les Paul the way we see it today. 
I 
> > > agree with that as music is visual and audio. My take on the 
> pads 
> > > are two fold. Visually sometimes I think i should mount the 
> thing 
> > in 
> > > a drum shell and fool the masses into thinking i have a really 
> hot 
> > > working snare drum. On the other hand, been practicing on 
> a "Real 
> > > Feel" practice pad for years thus love the rubber. I love 
rubber 
> > > like a duck loves water. I am a rubber lover. I do have Roland 
> and 
> > > Pintech silent mesh toms and snare, but my trusty rubber 
Yamaha 
> > > snare beart them out feel wise. Built a very nice looking 
snare 
> > with 
> > > internal trigger and Roland mesh head. Kind of nice to play on 
> > what 
> > > looks like a drum, but that dog gone rubber TP-120s pad feels 
> and 
> > > works so good I cannot tear myself away from it. Played a gig 
> with 
> > > the Yammie's and no one mentioned my kit eing a pad kit. Most 
of 
> > the 
> > > comments were directed to what an awsome drum sound I have. I 
> > > mounted the kit in a drum cage thus detracted the "pad" look 
> into 
> > a 
> > > more heavy duty rock drum kit look. Had so many cymbals in the 
> > cage 
> > > the pads were not noticed. If Yamaha made the pads to look 
loke 
> > real 
> > > drums i think it would appeal to a broader audience. That's 
why 
> > Hart 
> > > is doing well, their pads look like real drums. nonetheless, I 
> > think 
> > > Yamaha is right on the mark as far as feel, triggering and the 
> > three 
> > > zone idea. Their pad for me is the coolest looking pad as far 
as 
> > > pads look. i like the red dial and the profile of the pad and 
> > > mounting of it is the best. I may mount my pad in a drum shell 
> > just 
> > > for fun to see if people really notice the difference. My two 
> > cents 
> > > worth.