Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Keith wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DTXpress%40yahoogroups.com>, 
> John Allsopp <john@...> wrote:
>  >
>  > I just blogged here
>  > <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress 
> <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>>, I think I've
>  > reached (and discovered) the half life of a DTXpress III.
>  >
>  > J

> 
> Is this the same "non-heavy hitter" who broke some aluminium sticks on
> the DTXpress?!?
> 
> Keith.

:-) the very same.

I still maintain they were dodgy tho.

Or maybe the pads just have less 'give' / flexibility in them than a 
normal drumskin, and they weren't designed for it.

Ah, who knows. I don't feel like I hit with great force, anyway. But at 
the same time, I'm not gentle.

Regardless, the ride cymbal that died recently, well you hardly hit a 
ride cymbal with great force. And the hi hat pedal isn't worked hard 
either :-)

Incidentally, the chap in our local music shop claimed that the reason 
that I'd got through more than the usual number of bass drum beaters is 
that I'm using them on an electronic kit, and the electrics create a 
field which gradually turns the metal molecules, lining them up until 
the metal loses its usual properties and breaks. I didn't believe a 
word, and then I thought actually I've heard that before. Is that bunkum 
or right on?

J