Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I had an aha! moment when I thought .. this is all about the position
of the striker on the pad. Now I try to get it as central as possible.
Is that a good strategy? It still skips, but it's worse if off centre
.. I think.

J

> i have a dt2e kit with the original kik...i trun the knob all the way
> to the + side...it still skips.
>   its even worse when i use a double bass pedal.  it really skips.
>   so...when i play live...i just mike the bass drum.
>
> john@... wrote:
>   Hi ppl
>
> It's been a while since I contributed to this group. Well over a year
> ago, Keith, you'll remember looking at my KP65 and working out that on
> trigger it first gave a negative peak, and we concluded that the piezo
> was wired up wrongly.
>
> I bought another KP65, but the other one seemed OK and I never put it
> on. Well now, pre-gig, I thought I'd try the new one, and that's
> exactly the same.
>
> So, probably, it wasn't the KP65 after all.
>
> So my problem is still that I can sit and kick away as consistently as
> I like, and sometimes it just misses a trigger.
>
> What bass drum beater do people use? I managed to break mine and
> bought a felt one, but I think I should be using something like a
> leather ball, I guess the equivalent is one of those with plastic one
> side and felt the other. Has anyone noticed any improvements or
> preferences?
>
> And settings? I played for the first time with the setting for
> rejecting double hits, I think it's set to 3 (maybe). Setting it to 2
> or 4 seemed to cause other problems so I put it back how it was. Is
> there anything else I should be looking at?
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> J
>
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