Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> Is there a preferred place to buy bits from or shall I carry on with
> my local shoppe? Any guide prices?

I wouldn't mind finding out about good places to buy replacements from 
either, anyone who has an idea in the UK please suggest.

As far as effects go, I wouldn't worry about them too much.  Chorus you will 
be hard pressed to hear on short transients like drums.  Distortion may be 
quite fun (I would head towards classical distortion instead of fuzz). 
Delay is definitely very fun to play with.  Dynamics effects are pretty 
useless since you can achieve the same thing by playing with the velocity 
curve on the drum, which is a much preferred way of doing this.  There are a 
huge number of multi-effects pedals and you get what you pay for (most won't 
have compression tho).  As with all the effects though, you will likely be 
going through a completely new set of ADC's and DAC's which are often not at 
24-bit resolution, sometimes even just 14-bit.  Recording through these will 
deteriorate the quality of your sound significantly, and it would probably 
be noticeable at gigs too, although for playing around it doesn't matter at 
all.
Sorry can't help on the other points.

Matt

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <john@...>
To: <DTXpress@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: [DTXpress] KP65 bass drum pad / compression


Hi

I'm about to purchase a new KP65 because I think my old one is
triggering intermittently. It's still under warranty, but I've a gig
coming up and I don't want to trust to sending it off and waiting for
a new one to arrive.  I figured I'd buy a new one, then send the old
one back for replacement. If the unit's as dodgy as you guys reckon, a
spare won't do me any harm.

Is there a preferred place to buy bits from or shall I carry on with
my local shoppe? Any guide prices?

Any other thoughts on my strategy?

Oh, also, I'm getting all excited about the idea of buying a guitar
compression pedal and putting the kit through that to get a sound
that's easier to listen to. Then I thought I could have a line of
pedals on the floor and trigger them for all sorts of effects. Fuzzed
drums, chorussed drums. Maybe, if I'm thinking that way, there's a
single effects box that would do everything I want .. any ideas on
that?

J