Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Walt,

I remember you writing about your neutered KP60 before. Frankly, I 
wouldn't be surprised if your good fortune were related to what your 
KP60 is missing. Anyone with experience in audio knows that the less 
complicated the signal path is, the more faithful the signal will 
be. I don't know whether that's what's going on with mine, though. 
My first KP60--not this one--was a complete dud. Midwest Percussion 
put me directly in touch with Yamaha ("Dave," but not the earlier 
Yamaha "Dave" from the archives). He suggested that applying a hot 
soldering iron to the connections might do the trick; it didn't. He 
then sent a new sensor, and when that failed, he sent a new unit 
altogether. Something in the circuit board obviously wasn't right. 
Yamaha was very nice and very prompt about everything. But the KP60 
appears to be a weak link. My new one is by no means terrible, but a 
dropout at any time is frustrating. Hopefully, as lockhardt 
suggests, the right tweak is waiting. otherwise, if I get cranky 
enough, so long to my sensitivity and polarity controls--and 
probably my warranty. But don't get me wrong. I love this thing.

--- In DTXpress@y..., "wgardus" <wgardus@y...> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
> Here's my two cents worth -
> 
> I have both a Vertikik and a KP60 (although it was nuetered by a 
> previous owner, removing the polarity and sensitivity 
electronics), 
> and I would say they are dead even in performance, and I have not 
had 
> dropouts with either.  
> 
> Walt
> 
> --- In DTXpress@y..., "liberatusvirus" <edtyct@m...> wrote:
> > Searching through the archives I found a lot of the same kinds 
of 
> > problems with the KP60 that I asked about last week, 
particularly 
> > dropouts, regardless of gain, rejection, and min. vel. settings. 
Is 
> > the Pintech Verikik more reliable?  What else have people done?
> > 
> > Ed