Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "fjcelauro" <fjcelauro@y...> wrote:
> the pintech concertcast, while being cheaper than a roland, does not 
> work on a dtxpress very well at all.  it picks up the slightest hits 
> at 80% and the medium hits at 99% and without buying additional 
> equipment, it is terrible to a drummer who varies the force of his 
> snare hits, which i hope is all of us.  i am returning mine right 
away 
> and would like to stop others from making the same mistake.  the 
worst 
> thing is the foam colum up the middle triggering system, because if 
> you hit anywhere near the foam (which is right in the middle, you 
get 
> both a different feel and sound).  caveat emptor (buyer beware)

Please be careful about what you advise people to do or not do on this 
board. We're certainly interested in your successes and failures, but 
blanket assertions from people with limited experience on edrums must 
be taken with a grain of salt. The Pintech CCs have a long history of 
use by resourceful DTXpress owners over the years, even though the 
match isn't necessarily made in heaven out of the box.  Until you've 
accumulated the kind of varied information about your own kit that 
many others who visit here (and elsewhere) earn and demonstrate, as 
well as about other components and techniques associated with edrums, 
you might do well taking the more humble approach. 

The DTXpress was made first and foremost for use with DTXpress 
components, and secondarily for use with other Yamaha components (like 
some of those associated with the DTXtremeIIS). It takes some 
knowledge of how modules and edrums work in general to get in a 
position to adapt other manufacturers' components with it.  Many of us 
have been here a long time; we haven't been sitting on our hands for 
the better part of five or six years waiting for you to show up to 
tell us what works and what doesn't.  

Ed