Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Rolf Baehr of rbaehr@... said on 1/16/00 10:21 AM

>From: "Rolf Baehr" <rbaehr@...>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>You're probably all getting tired of hearing about kick pad problems... but 
>maybe more of you will see this problem down the road, so all this may help 
>you someday.
>
>Continuing to have intermittent weak triggers, I went into the Trigger setup 
>edit mode, and went to the Gain/Min Velocity screen.  Watching the "level 
>display", hitting at even strokes, I'd see:  99%, 99, 99, 28, 99,99,14.  
>Well, you get the idea, something inside the kick pad tower is 
>intermittently cutting down the signal from it to the box.  So, off to my 
>drum store.  We plugged it into his set, and at first consistent 99's.  I 
>told him, keep pounding.... be patient. Sure enough, after about a minute, 
>it started. Then he brought out the one that I had originally sent back a 
>few months ago for the same problem that had been sent in for repair and 
>returned.  It worked fine.
>
>Then one of the other guys in the store says yeah, I had the same problem 
>with the tower that came with his earlier vintage DTX sets.  He said that 
>they tore it down and found that the wiring from the output jack to the 
>trigger was very light gauge, and there was some sort of kink in that wiring 
>and that's where it went bad.  They're wondering if something similar is 
>going on inside some of these towers too.  They are going to open this one 
>up, and I'll let you know what they find.
>
>Anyways, losing confidence in Yamaha kick pads, they gave me some credit on 
>the defective Yamaha one, and I bought a S&S Stealth Bass Drum Trigger.  
>Wow, is it nice!  Much more comfortable to play, quieter and more accurate 
>for sure.  I'd recommend it to anyone.  You can see them at:
>http://gmdi.home.mindspring.com/ssProduct1.html#kick
>
>This was rated the most comfortable and accurate bass drum trigger by Modern 
>Drummer magazine.
>
>Many thanks to Clark and the great folks at Colorado Drum for taking care of 
>me and backing the products they sell.
>
>If we find anything interesting inside the Yamaha unit, I'll pass it on.  
>Oh, by the way did you see that Yamaha has a new KP80S kick tower, that 
>helps utilize port 9/10? Or at least it's the first I've heard of it.  You 
>can see it at:
>
>http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/drum/dtx/prd/component.html
>
>It sounded interesting to me, but after the luck I've had with Yamaha kick 
>tower, I decided to go another direction.
>
>Hope all this info helps, and that you won't have the same trouble I had.
>
>Keep on drummin!
>
>Rolf
>
>
>

Thanks for taking the time to post all the detailed info, Rolf. You're a great source.

I visited the Stealth site,  saw the pics, but don't get it. How do you hook it up, what does it attach to etc.?


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pete

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