Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, john@j... wrote:
> Well, I'm definitely an amateur, but I have played with compression 
as
> an effect and is certainly made things easier to listen to, and yes 
it
> would be nice to compress the cymbals (that can make them last 
longer,
> right?) but I accept it's all or nothing.
> 
> I've not gigged with the Yamaha but I was just thinking it might 
make
> the sound 'smoother' somehow.

Hey J,

If you've got a use for compression, more power to you. In the past, 
when compression was all the rage, recordings acquired a signature 
studio sound that I learned not to like. Compression can be used 
judiciously, but the challenge with the DTXpress live would seem to 
be not squeezing the life out of it. But I can see how the kit might 
have a certain digital brashness that might bother people under 
certain conditions. Keep us posted.

Ed