Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "G" <kickflippin@h...> wrote:
> > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry" <jeraldlhenderson@y...>
> > wrote:
>  
> > If you can get your hands on an origional DTXtreme tom it would 
work 
> > on inputs 1-8. (I'm pretty sure, please correct me if I'm 
> wrong)      
> > I wish they still made them, they rock.
> 
> G,
> 
> No. The original DTXtreme toms were basically mesh pads with mylar 
> heads. They would play on inputs 1-8 on a DTXpress module but only 
as 
> mono pads, not with rim switch capability. Many people actually 
> replaced the mylar with mesh to make them quieter. Yamaha at one 
time 
> intended to get into the woven-head market, even to the point of 
> patenting their own perforated design, but Roland turned out to 
have 
> too much of a stranglehold on it. 
> 
> Ed Morin at Drumbalaya seems to have had the last big batch of 
these 
> pads a while back. I think that he got them directly from Yamaha 
> (right, Ed?). A year or two ago, someone selling a DTXI1 kit or 
> components would turn up on ebay and elsewhere, but the stream 
seems 
> to have largely run dry.
> 
> Ed

Yes, that's correct.  We purchased *all* of Yamaha's (US) known 
remaining inventory of the original DTXTREME RHP pads.  The snares 
went pretty quickly.  We have two KP120's left and a number of 
RHP80's, but that's it as far that goes.  We purchased all their old 
DTXPRESS I/II stuff as well at the same time (it was several pallets 
worth stacked high) and still have a few modules/racks.  It's been 
an interesting experience, that's for sure!

Ed