Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Adam's spot on again... exactly my experience too..

One thing I did discover was the disparity between sounds carefully 
set up listening on headphones and then playing live - the DTxpress 
outputs an incredible amount of low frequency sound if you let it - I 
use a signal processor to roll off some of this - not obvious on 
average headphones. You need to try out sounds through an amp as well 
as headphones.  Another thing I noticed was the sensitivity 
switch/knob on the kick post can make a huge difference to the bass 
drum sound - for both better and worse. 
Apart from normal practice I assume everyone else does the same trick 
of feeding a portable CD player into the aux in socket and playing 
along with favourite tracks?
Regards,
Will


--- In DTXpress@y..., adam.keen@b... wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Your technique may change with electronic drums.
> The bounce from the pads is good and you will be able to do 
> double/triple strokes, buzz rolls etc, The pads are small so your 
> accuracy improves, you can gets the pads physically realy close 
> together so you can move around the toms a lot easier than on an 
> accoustic kit.
> One thing that may suffer is your power, you dont need to hit pads 
> that hard and so you dont, Because you can get a huge kick drum 
sound 
> from a light tap with the beater my bass drum speed has improved, 
but 
> I know I would not be able to play as fast on an accoutic kit, 
> because i dont have the power and speed.
> 
> But because you can practice anytime, you will get better.
> 
> Re silent practice, the pads may be quiet, but you will still get 
> thump from the kick , especially if you are in a room with a wooden 
> floor, and this thump will travel around your house. If you can set 
> up in a ground floor room with a concrete floor, you get much less .
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Adam
> 
> --- In DTXpress@y..., daftasabrushything@y... wrote:
> > Guys,
> 
> The main thing is 
> > that I should be able to practice with headphones, like now (9.15 
> > p.m.) with the kids in bed. My main worry was that I'd somehow 
not 
> be 
> > learning properly or that my technique, such as it's likely to 
be, 
> > would be not suitable for accoustic drums. At least I know now 
that 
> > other people have been in the same position and survived.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Richard