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?

It's the standard DTXPRESS III (afaik, I don't actually know what the
special is, I'm not aware I have it), the cymbal that chokes is the
dual zone, a PCY65S. I have that set up with two crashes, and use the
single zone as a ride, I thought that was standard.

Anyway, otherwise, yes. The choke works on both zones. You just grip
the forward zone and squeeze.

AFAIK there's no choke on the single zone.

HTH
J