Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

>> Hey??  Am I being dumb?
>> As far as I know, the cymbals you get with the DTxpress III (I'm not
>> talking
>> about the 'special' here) do NOT choke.  That is there is no lever
>> underneath them for 'catching' the cymbals once they have been struck.
>
> The crash does choke, nicely. There's no level, but you just grip the
> fore edge to choke it.

I'm sure that wasn't in the documentation...
thats great news though.  Let me just check before I get excited: we are 
talking about a standard dtxpress III.  There are two triangular shaped 
cymbal triggers, one of which is a two zone cymbal (the other is a single 
zone).  The only visual difference between the two is that the two zone has 
a line following the perimeter of the 'arc' about 1 inch away from it, which 
form the second surface to hit for the diffeent sound.  The two zone is 
usually used as a ride on the premade patches, so I guess you're talking 
about what I have labelled as the 'signle zone' trigger, which in actual 
fact must be a dual zone too, just with a different positioned secondary 
zone which cannot be hit, but rather squeezed.

And you just squeeze this at the edge somewhere after hitting it, and the 
sound sort of cuts out.

Have I got it right?
Thanks for the help,

Matt

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