Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

-"I'm glad you now have it sorted - I hope you didn't buy a 3 zone pad
> to find out you already had one!"
> 
> Keith.




No I didn't, but had one on my Musician's Friend Wishlist, now 
deleted.I looked at the manual last night and in the section that 
showed the connections, couldn't find any reference to this.

The dual zone cymbal pad is sort of weird though,seems kind of 
unpredictable what you are going to get when you hit it. It seems to 
respond more to velocity than the area that I'm hitting as far as 
which sound it produces. I'll try it as a crash with the stereo cable 
and see if I like that better.

Back to the snare, given the fact that the pads are as small as they 
are, you have to stay really focused on the area you hit to get the 
sound you want, very easy to cross over into the wrong territory.
It's not such a problem when you are doing a basic, snare, hi-hat, 
bass beat. But when it comes to going into a roll from the snare to 
the rack toms, it's easy to hit the side stick area, which can sound 
a little messy.

John