Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

(Whoops - I deleted my response - hope this does not repeat.)

The sound is fine - can't really hear any distortion, but I am barely pushing any volume. Setting the input really low seems to help, but as soon as I push the master up, the LED lights on almost every drum hit. (The LED does not light when iPod plays through the DTXpress auxiliary input — but, as soon as I hit a drum, the LED lights.)

I have been afraid to play around with it too much as I did not want to blow the speakers.  Your advise seems to suggest that I may be OK if I am not hearing distortion.

(I read around on the net earlier today about clipping. Paraphrasing: I understand it to mean that the sound wave flat lines because there it too much power for the speaker to handle or not enough to push it, and in either case, the speaker freezes in position, which stops any air movement, causes overheating, etc.)
 
Hmmm.. still confused.



--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Keith" <keith@...> wrote:
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> Doug,
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> It's not bi-amped, which doesn't help.  It is probably clipping the bass.  You may be able to minimise it by turning the line volume down and the master volume up, or vice versa - give it a try.  But if it sounds ok, I wouldn't worry too much.  
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> It is possible that you could blow up the tweeter, but if that is the case I would have thought you would be cringing at the distortion.  My PA clips on bass kicks sometimes (15" bi-amped with 200W on the bass, 100W on the treble) and it sounds fine and never blown up.  I think if you want some serious volume you need to spend serious money to get some decent power.  My drum teacher uses a couple of 1000W PAs on his electronic drum kit.
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> Keith.
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