Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Mine isn't to do with the speed of the second hit, I can just be
plugging away at beats 1 and 3, and it'll inexplicably miss one.

If your second one is really soon after, that sounds like the self
rejection setting I was just playing with .. but I'm sure you know
that.

J

> tried that too....using a single beater or double beater. i moved the
> it around.
>   this is how it usually skips....on a double pedal....the 1st kik is
> solidbut the 2nd kik cancels.
>   On a single pedal....2 fast kiks...the first is solid...2nd one
> blanks out.
>
>
> john@... wrote:
>   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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