Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Keith,

Great, thanks for the extra info! I had a look at those photo's
and did a search. 
The photo's showed a ribbon connected to the edge of a pad, I'm 
guessing that's the FSR. I can't tell in the picture exactly how the 
rim shorts when it get's hit though. I do see how the ribbon 
attaches to the edge and seems to slit off in bith directions of the 
edge of the cymbal pad shown.
I've not found anything in the "search" yet, except our dialog by 
typing in FSR :/ I'll try typing in something else.
This helps a lot, thanks again!

Steve

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Keith" <keith@k...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> 
wrote:
> > 
> 
> You are right - it is the tip of the jack plug which connects to 
the
> piezo.  The ring is connected to the FSR.  When you hit the rim of 
the
> pad the FSR shorts the ring to ground.  In the case of a three zone
> pad, the extra zone is created by using a 10k resistor in series 
with
> the FSR.  By the way, if you try shorting out the ring and then
> hitting as pad it won't work.  The DTXpress box expects the switch 
to
> be closed just before the piezo signal arrives.  Try holding the 
rim
> of you snare and hitting the pad and see what happens.
> 
> If you look in the photo section, someone (OGD I think) has kindly
> dismantled and photographed just about all the Yamaha kit.
> 
> I think there were discussions about FSRs on the group a while 
back,
> including where to buy them, so if you search the message archive 
you
> should find it.
> 
> Keith.