Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Frank & Susan Malinowski said:
>I am wondering if there is a way to set up or use a subset
> of the DTX to practice for drum line. Any ideas?

Back in the days of yore... :) I used to be in marching band, and on some
songs we marched an electric Bass Guitar. The way we did that was to have
a golf cart with the bass amp in theback and a 12volt to 110 volt power
inverter like this:

<http://www.mpja.com/directview.asp?product=12824+PS>

The bass player would march along side the golf cart and the golf cart
was driven by a guy in full uniform right behind the drum line. :)

You could do the same thing with a DTXpress I guess, but when you think
about the number of things that could go wrong (lots!), and the advantage
you would get (not much really) I don't think I'd reccomend this.

Frankly a round wood shell and a batter head produces one heck of a lot
of DB without the need for all the extra electronics. It also can shrug
off a drenching rain.. the DTxpress... mmmm not so much.. Also if your
gear gets damaged on the field, I doubt the band dept. will feel great
about buying you a new e-kit..

Edrums are great for a number of tricky situations, for example:

-Playing where acoustic drums would create unwanted sound (Practice late
at night, in a residentail area, with a sleeping baby or maybe if you're
not really that good and you don't want everyone to hear all the flubs!
:D

-Playing with a group that requires the drum volume level to be tightly
controlled (VERY small venue, types of music that require soft drums like
soft acoustic guitar or choral vocals in a church)

-Playing special effects (timbales, tympani, tubular bells, one-hit
repeating riff beats etc.)

-Playing very differnt drum kits for different songs w/o having to
own/use them (like small light jazz kit, then a heavy rock kit, then a
latin percussion kit)

-Recording drum parts in a small studio w/o having to go to the trouble
of micing a kit (mixer and lots of mics and lots of "tuning" time to get
it to sound right) plus the "bleed" an acoustic set would have over other
acoustic instruments.

Anyway, thats just my $0.02 worth... :)

Vern

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