Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thank you,

Don

On Dec 5, 2004, at 6:05 PM, vl2000_us wrote:

>
>  donn... man its been a long and ongoing process.  i imagine it will
>  also be somewhat different for different setups.  for example i use a
>  gibralter rack (rock solid) and have a rock solid drum riser, so i'm
>  getting away with little if any rejection settings from crosstalk.
>
>  now, if you set up on a loose stage or riser, you may have to tighten
>  down the rejection settings.
>
>  i am basically working with self rejection set to the min which is
>  5ms on pretty much everything.  wish i could get it to zero, in fact.
>
>  i have found that i get best results with gains set nearly maxed on
>  the harts.  that may change with more tweaking, but i have for most
>  of my kit programs, my yamaha toms set at 32, my hart toms at 57, my
>  hart snare at 57 and my yam snare at either 45 or 63 depending on
>  what i'm trying to do with it.
>
>  i use the hart snare as my main.  i use the yam snare as either a
>  specialty snare (ex: big fat 80s rock sound) at which case i run it
>  at 45, because the yamahas seem 'hotter' than the hart.  i have to
>  run the hart at 57 to be approx same vol as the yam at 45.
>
>  on the other hand sometimes i use the yam snare as a special fx
>  trigger (ex: hand clap, bells, etc) so i run the gain to 63.  when i
>  do that, i'll also set the volume where i want it for the voice, and
>  i'll usually set the velocity at min-126 max -127, that way i always
>  get full force FX even if i mis-strike the pad
>
>  i had a full band rehearsal today after really torquing the heads
>  down tite on the harts.  the reason for this, as i posted earlier, is
>  i had one tom and the snare, periodically drop a hit.  really throws
>  me off when that happens and it was buggin the shit out of me.
>
>  i tried every rejection combination, against itself, the rack, other
>  drums, etc... i'm finally convinced (well almost convinced) that
>  these heads like to be a quite a bit tighter than i've ever had my
>  acoustics, almost to the point where i feel like they're too tight. 
>  but... no dropped hits today, and i was hammering unusually hard
>  today because bass player was cranked.
>
>  i'm not sure if the looser head was causing the stick to over drive
>  the trigger, or, if the looser head was creating too much extra
>  vibration that was within the 5ms minimum self rejection setting and
>  hence cancelling the next hit.  (thats why i mentioned earlier about
>  wishing i could take self reject to zero just to experiment)
>
>  what else... i've managed to get the kit where i'm running all the
>  special rejections at 0 from any other drum, as well.
>
>  I built my own snake for cable management so i can very quickly wire
>  the whole set properly.  (i dont use any of the channels as labeled :-
>  )
>
>  let me know i can help with anything else.  right now the only thing
>  i want to figure out is if i can put wipe or spray something on that
>  beautiful chrome finish on the harts.  they are going to occasionally
>  spend a few days in the cold band truck and i dont want the
>  condensation to start pitting the surface.  thinking some kind of wax
>  or something.
>
>  overall i'm thrilled with my combo hart/yam kit.
>
>
>
>  good luck-
>  vlus
> http://www.MonstersOfRock.info
>
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>  --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Don <contract731@c...> wrote:
>  >   vlus:
>  >
>  > Any quick advice on what tweaking of the module setting gave the
>  > optimum results?
>  >
>  > donn
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Thank you!

Don Pokorny