Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "tboginski" <tboginski@y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> opened up my new drums that my wonerfull wife got me and 2 things 
> are wrong. (yamaha dtx 2.0)
> 
> 1.) no power cable, i found another 12v one at the house so that 
> problem might be fixed.
> 
> 2.) I can hardlely hear anything even with the volume at 100%
> 
> I reset all factory settings and i goofed around with sesitivity 
and 
> all that stuff, nothing makes a difference, it's turned all the way 
> up and the sticks hitting the pads is still audible with my 
> headphones on. ANy suggestions, i did a search function on this 
site 
> and 2 others and found nothing to try that i didn't think of 
already.
> 
> headphones are 24 ohms so i should be good there and i tried 
another 
> 12v power supply (this one was 3amps instead of 1 amp) and the 
drums 
> sound the same. Also, I pluged in my powered 2.1 computer speakers 
> and even with their amp turned all the way up the drums were still 
> very, very quiet. I went into the settings and turned the volume 
> from 100 to 127 and slid the volume knob all the way up and still 
> nothing, they were the same volume with the internal volume setting 
> at 127 as they were at 100. Do you guys think I got screwed?? These 
> are used. But the guy packed them perfectly (bubble wrap, peanuts, 
> seperat boxes)and even supplied an extra pad becouse he said one 
> just didn't "seem right", i mean this guy seems sincere. I'm about 
> to email him but please, if you guys can think of anything that 
> might work tell me, I'll try it. Thanks.
> 
> What do you guys think????????????

Hi,

Based on everything you've reported (he said, wiping the stuffing 
from his paws), I might have turned to the power supply, too. The 
output of the standard DTX wart is 700 mA at 12v, so you seem to be 
covered there, and since you seem also to be getting at least a 
little juice, the polarity should be okay, though I wouldn't swear to 
it. Even then, it's still possible that the power supply is at fault. 
The probability diminishes at least a little bit, however, when you 
get the same result from two of them. We could easily be overlooking 
an internal setting, however, especially on a day when attention 
might flag a bit. Since you can't do anything about it today, or 
possibly tomorrow either, let's see if anything else springs to mind 
in the meanwhile.

Ed