Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> Given that we've a small gig coming up and there'll be no-one on the
> mixing desk to even out the sound from song to song, is there a way of
> evening out the differences or shall I continue doing what I'm doing,
> which is "ooh, that snare sounds a bit overbearing, I'll turn it down
> a tad".

Forgive me if my answer below is not appropriate.  I'm just assuming that by 
'turn it down a tad' you mean you're using the snare KNOB on the front... if 
thats not the case (and instead you mean you're adjusting the levels by the 
voice edit menu) then ignore everything I've written.

Well I'm no expert, but the first thing that occurs to me is that you should 
just attempt to normalise all the sounds for the kits manually by listening 
to them (in the most realistic scenario possible).  I tend to only use the 
user kits, having selected which kits are halfway decent and weeding out 
those awful drum loops, so customisation of these kits is possible.  Then 
have a play (with the snare and kick knobs set to halfway) and decide which 
sounds are too loud or quiet and get one kit correct... I'd imagine the kits 
are probably all relatively balanced anyway, so then go through and adjust 
the levels of the next kit, constantly referencing the previous.  To adjust 
the volume just navigate to the volume setting on the voice edit (?).
If you find ALL the floor toms are too loud then adjust the sensitivity of 
the trigger input, but from what you say I guess the only things you need to 
change are the relative levels of each kit.... in which case you will still 
need to go through all the voices individually and adjust the volume!

Best of luck,

Matt

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <john@...>
To: <DTXpress@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [DTXpress] KP65 bass drum pad / compression


>> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
> Good points both, Mat, I've either forgotten or never knew about the
> velocity curve thing, may have a play.
>
> The thing, tho, that I'm having trouble managing is that I have pretty
> much a different kit for each song, as different as world music is to
> a rock kit. Some seem louder than others.
>
> Given that we've a small gig coming up and there'll be no-one on the
> mixing desk to even out the sound from song to song, is there a way of
> evening out the differences or shall I continue doing what I'm doing,
> which is "ooh, that snare sounds a bit overbearing, I'll turn it down
> a tad".