Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

hey guys,

I am new at eDrumming and I am becoming very frustrated with my DTX3,
but I guess that my frustration might be due to user error, rather
than crummy hardware.

I play in a basement band and whenever we get together to practice I
have all sorts of issues with my chokeable cymbal. Whenever I need it
to play that fill in crash, instead of giving me a Craaassshhhh sound
all I get crashzip! which is the same sound I get when I hit the crash
and choke it with my hand. This screws up the whole band. I have
messed around with the rejection settings, but nothing changes. I also
changed the trigger setting from SP Dynamic to SP Medium which does
not do much to solve the problem (it goes from mistrigering every time
to every other time) I tried the basic trigger setting SP Normal,
everything is one volume and that is no fun. The same thing happens
when I practice with headphones.

The issue with the PCY130 is similar, its not the choke thing, but it
does misfire like the PCY130S. With the PCY130 its just a dead piece
of rubber... it just goes clunk. 

Any advice, other than go buy a R0land, you can provide, would be
greatly appreciated. 

Thanks